Word: abductors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...halt, like traffic in a rush-hour gridlock, whenever the entire eight-actor ensemble crowds onto the stage. The performances, though a bit broad for so intimate a space, are clever: Mara Beckerman is just irksome enough as the naive heroine, Alan Brasington swishily grand as her abductor, and Merle Louise, Polly Pen and especially Emcee Michael McCormick polished and persuasive as show-must-go-on troupers. The music hall genre may be dead, but Charlotte Sweet is an amiable, spirited resurrection...
...victims were males who were relatively small, generally wore their hair short, and looked younger than their age. Those similarities might suggest a sexual motive, but police say there is no evidence of molestation. There is speculation that the boys were well cared for by their abductor, because some of them had apparently been washed shortly before they were murdered. Such tenuous theories are all that anybody has to go on. At the end of last week, a three-month-old police task force of 24 full-time investigators had not come up with a single solid lead...
...charge $7,500 per case, but Ted Patrick, 50, says he has been hired more than 2,000 times as a professional abductor. His targets are converts to zealous faiths he calls "cults." He helps harangue them out of their new beliefs through "deprogramming." Mostly they have been enthralled by the likes of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon or the Hare Krishnas. Patrick has also processed a woman whose mother opposed her impending marriage and-just this year-Susan Wirth, 35, a San Francisco college teacher whose mother wanted to wean her away from far-left politics...
With a couple of trombone blasts, an amazon of a woman, sporting gold sequins, helmet and spear, rambles onto the stage to tell us she got lost in this forest running away from a clumsy abductor who dropped her from her balcony. This lady of the lowlands. Donna Ribalda (Melody Scheiner) feigns gusto in her aria, but soon gives in to boredom...
...women are asleep, snoring and snorting, a little man toddles up to center stage and sings. "Look at me. Tell me what you see." His two short legs in pink tights stick out of a black velvet tunic. This little man, Don Octave (Matt Olivia), is Donna Ribalda's abductor and brother. For all his pink flakiness, the Spanish gypsy lady adores...