The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, October 03, 1983, Page 14, Image 14
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? INTERNATIONAL COFFEES
SJD HAVE A TASTE ON US. j |
9 last. If sample pack is not available r
elow to General Foods? |
Illinois 60902. /'"I##
if
OfMfftAl FOOO* ? 5
1 Ij
*1983! " Sample Pack^JJ,^