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Doonesbury charad NEW YORK (AP) ? It has Duke, student of controlled substances and the former governor of Samoa. And Joanie Caucus, champion of liberation. And Zonker, who is into tanning. And B.D., still in football helmet. It also has Mike, Mark, Honey and even foreign correspondent Roland Hedley Jr., with his rather hip style. They're all coming to Broadway next month in a new musical. The show is "Doonesbury." Currently in a Boston warmup run, it's based on Garry Trudeau's popular, satirical, topical and cur rently on-leave cartoon strip of the same name. IT'S NOT his first effort outside the world of syndicated cartoonery. In 1977, he and others cooked up an animated special, "Doonesbury." But James Walsh, genial producer of this 11-player proceeding, says the Broadway "Doonesbury" isn't at all like the TV show: "No, as a matter of fact, one of the things we wanted to do from the start was a 'book' show' ? with a beginning, a middle and an end ? and not sketches, not little cartoon cutouts doing jokes and gags. "And so, this is a book show. The book uses the Doonesbury characters, obviously, but it isn't stuff that's been in the strip oeiore. it's all new." THE BROADWAY "Doonesbury" is set I Earn Exti I Money 1 Urgently needed ? peoi I Mononucleosis to aid in I Research. If you have or h; I r\ . - . ? I? ? ? Lilt; pdil Z. WGtJKb IVIUHU, qualify for $100.00 per wi hours of your time. Call for more information. serologicals of coiumbi suite 105,2719 Middle Columbia, S.C. 292C 0 Now featurii ! "Greek" dinners < try our new "Pizza on a Pi You'll love i | | Mon.-Sat. 6-10 > Wv 799-0916 ^^1114 College Str< se&a 6 Wi.no. y^yj Mi), irrn wj* mm) i>5?'j> vm4 9 :ers to try stage in "Walden,"thc famed counterculture commune and starting point for the strip when it began in 1970. Then. 6nly 30 newspapers carried it. Last year, when 723 papers were running it, Trudeau said he was temporarily shutting it down to take a breather. Down it shut in January. He's been busy during his breather, though. He wrote the musical's book and lyrics, with Elizabeth ("Runaways") Swados contributing the score. The musical, with a budget of $2 million, is scheduled to premier Nov. 10, It began as a workshop project, and has been in the works for five years, according to producer Walsh. HE SAYS the show picks up where the strip left off ? with Joanie Caucus and her new baby many of the Walden inmates finally forced to graduate from college and otherwise face the realities of adult life. Walsh originally tried to book "Doonesbury" in New Haven, Conn., where, while a Yale undergraduate, Trudeau first began cartooning in the Yale Daily News with a strip called "Bull Tales." "I thought it'd be fun to try it out there, V\?it unfArhinotalir tlioir n/Milrln'f rtat wui U1I1UI IU11MIVIJ UlVjr VUUIU1I V 5VI lilt theater ready in time," he said, "so we moved it to Boston. But Boston is a great market for the show, not just because of the 300,000 students living in the area, but because the strip was carried up there and people are very wired into it." ^Medical Si ^ ta" r b[ I HAS YOU1 M I WAIT ? oM o J Sample Packs I at your colleg . International I Name yf\ i Addre9,_ ?^ I PRE ?W v?t?v v?*w. v?v? n-*" >Men<??' . Klinqer lives on ir LOS ANGELES (AP) ? In all the years he was assigned to the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, Corp. Maxwell Klinger thought of little else except getting out. Now that the Korean War is over, citizen Maxwell Klinger's attention is directed toward hanging onto his low-paid job as administrative assistant to the chief of staff at a veterans hospital in Missouri. "I'm no longer trying to get out, I'm trying to stay in," said Jamie Farr, who carries his role from "M-A-S-H" to the new CBS series "After MASH." "The administrator's secretary is out to get rid of me. She's a killer." Two other discharged veterans from the i4A77f K iAin Kim Uarrv T\J t / III J Will 111111 ?IA 111 V VV1HVWJ AAU?t/ Morgan, who was Col. Sherman Potter, is now Dr. Potter, chief of staff. William Christopher, who was Father Mulcahy, is still Father Mulcahy, the VA hospital's chaplain. It's the early 1950s. The Korean War is over. Hawkeye has gone back to Maine; B.J., back to his practice in California; Winchester, back to Boston (where else?) and Hot Lips (excuse me, Margaret) is staying in the Army. The new series takes up where "M-AS-H" left off, at least as far as Potter, Klinger and Father Mulcahy are concerned. They are also joined by Rosalind Chao, who plays Soon Lee, the Korean woman Klinger married in the final episode. The show has been called one of the new University Booksto l FREE SAMPLE PACK OF GENERAL FOOD ING FOR YOU. PRESENT THIS COUPON AI } are available at your college bookstore while supplie ;e wxjKsiore, sena tne coupon witn completed form b Coffees Sample Pack Offer, P.O. Box 3551, Kankakee, School Class i 'After MASH' season's surefire hits. "That makes me a bit nervous," Farr said. "The other thing people are asking is how can the series survive without Alan Alda which is silly for a number of reasons. Alan is the No. 1 TVQ, you know, the list of the most popular TV stars, which isn't supposed to exist. Well, Harry Morgan is No. 2. Jamie Farr is No. 10.1 think that means we do have something of a following," he said. He says the characters are not the same, nor are the actors the same. "We're older," he says, "and we'r^ not dealing with the same subject matter The war is over. This is 1953 and we've got a hospital that has veterans from past wars. "Besides the hospital, we've got the oneroom apartment I share with Rosalind Chao. It's got a Murphy bed. We have Father Mulcahy's apartment. And Potter's house. We meet his wife, Mildred, for the first time." In "M-A-S-H" they found out that war was hell, but in "After MASH"they will find that peace can be pretty tough. Klinger, Potter and Mulcahy will be up against the bureaucracy of a government-run institution. The personification of that will be the administrator, played by John Chappell, and his secretary, Brandis Kemp. "Look at the other shows. It's the same old tired concepts. Who's ever done a show in a VA hospital before? And you don't have to establish who the characters are. They're all familiar," he said. ii?Br" v^e* ft re i.j S? 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