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Otis's senior counselors, Brad and Lester, have more realistic grips on reality, but are indulgent enough never to pop their employer's fantasy bubble. They watch but they do not touch. The junior counselor, Tyler, in his first year at Edgewater, is downy, gangly and innocent. One would think that his fall would be the main tension of the play and one would be wrong...
...they have to, the camp workers trying to hide it from the kids to whom the absence of the sappy punk Sam means nothing. Nobody understands it very well; worse yet, no one can communicate what they do feel. "It's hard," says Tyler to his more weathered colleague Brad, "feeling like opera in here, like high mass, and everything coming out cartoons...
...Vincent as Tyler often seems as confused as his character, but he has moments of real charm and passion, bringing his gawk to life. David Thomas's Lester makes it clear that his cynic had a past and is not simply sewn together of one-liners. Peter Fisher's Brad is mature, intelligent and, most difficult of all, a good Listener. Caroline Jones's Missy knows just how O'Donnell wanted his girl to talk, like a furry-slippered guest at a pajama party: "My dad would have a cow if he caught me," she says, and means it. Andy...
...acquisition of piledriving fullback Larry Csonka was rare and refreshing fruit to the Giants' lackluster ground game, while Arnsparger shored up the defense with a linebacking corps of Brad Van Pelt, Pat Kelly and Brian Hughes...
What is fascinating about a show of this sort is that it is a sociological fossil pit. The American hero (Brad Blaisdell) is an untainted saint of ineptitude. His French rival (Michael Tartel) is a bounder of dashing expertise. The girl that both of them vie for is a strawberry blonde (Kimberly Farr) with a pragmatic eye for betting on a long shot. There is a marvelously agile dance number called The Tickle Toe, and a few ribs are tickled as well...