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...1860s the shows played in Cambridge and Boston, and the scripts began to be exclusively student written. Some became nationally famous, such as 1882's Dido and /Eneas. reputed to be the first musical comedy in America. At this point the scripts also began to assume the pun-filled risque quality of today's shows. The trend culminated in 1915's Bumming in France which had tasteful characters like Ivan E. Rexionne and Willy Cracker...
This year's all-male, pun-filled Hasty Pudding Theatrical production will concern a battle of the sexes between conquistador's and Amazons and is set on a jungle island...
...along at an exhilarating clip, and in between numbers, George Abbott's book provides just the right mix of Shakespearean vaudeville and vaudevillian Shakespeare. Large chunks of iambic pentameter are carelessly tossed across the stage, only to be nimbly undercut by an outrageously topical reference or a wonderfully bad pun. And since its 1938 world premiere at the Shubert Theater, Boston, The Boys From Syracuse inspired quite a few more Shakespeare musicals, most notably Kiss Me, Kate, and its influence can also be seen all over A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum...
...Ants reduce the Moody Blues to a cliche by making lust sinister. It almost works, but a happy-go-lucky bass line ruins the ceric vocals. In "Here Comes the Grump," the group turns self-reflective (ah, the traumas of being Number One) and even rehash the Shakespearean pun on death as orgasm...
...this time, things have gotten pretty much out of control in the audience, anyway. Numerous bottles of bubbly have been carried into the house after the intermission, and there is much merriment Behind me, a sloshed woman loudly asks her escort to explain a pun "What's that mean--penis?" At one poirt, cries of "Freshman Mixer" and "Buzz Aldren!" go up. In the center section, guest-of-honor Steven Spielberg, the Pudding's newly crowned Man of year, looks mildly bewildered. E.T., after all never had too deal with alumni...