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BABES IN THE WOOD. Rick Besoyan's vaudevillian version of A Midsummer Night's Dream is more akin to Minsky than Shakespeare. The humor is broad, the music is gay, the mood is light. The groundlings would have loved...
...Hero Rick Blaine (Bogart) is an aloof Casablanca cafe proprietor, an idealization of the self-willed outcast, who is sometimes pressed into exerting an ordering influence on his hopelessly muddled environment. A former freedom fighter in Spain and Ethiopia, for some reason unable to return to his native United States, Blaine has become wary of involvement--"I stick my neck out for nobody"--and is resigned to die in Casablanca - "It's a good place...
Prior to the match, the squad elected Jose Gonzalez as its captain. Gonzialez, now playing in the number two slot behind Rick Sterne, is the National Junior Squash Champion...
Babes in the Wood uses A Midsummer Night's Dream as a getaway vehicle for a spoofy musical in which Composer-Librettist Rick Besoyan (Little Mary Sunshine) kids the things he loves and loves the things he kids. It is a diverting trifle with glints of moon madness...
Other shiners on the squad are Rick Perrin, a 6-3 forward from Columbiana, Ohio, Cari Kendrick, a 6-4 center from Plymouth, and Dan Orlovsky, a 6-4 guard from Chieago, who is an exceptional outside shooter. The coach predicts that four or five of his players will move up to the varsity next winter...