'One Nation Undecided' s it enters its fourth year as Detroit's ter; a divorced couple's reunion at a Tiger only professional improvisational baseball game; the revelations of a couple company, The Second City has fi- about to get married; an after-election heart-to-heart between Bill Clinton and nally hit its stride. The ensemble's eighth revue, One Na- Bob Dole; and the confessions of a Detroit tion Undecided, is bold, sometimes bit- Lion. The first sketch satirizes urban-sub- ing, and usually funny social satire, even if it doesn't quite hold together themat- urban differences with just the right amount of tweaking, mostly of the sub- ically. I recall cringing through one of The urban side of the equation. As the privi- Second City's early revues, which was leged teen-ager, Shelton attempts to show rife with scatological jokes and otherwise her largesse by talking to the guy (Wade) base attempts at humor that not even a who's been mowing her parents' lawn for better cast could have rescued. I never years. Her first attempt to "connect" with him falls flat, which leads her to returned. I'm glad I did. The synergy of The Second Illann puff up with pride. Finally she re- treats, as she must, to what she City players — Angela Shelton, is — a suburban teen-ager as far Joshua Funk, Rico Bruce Wade, Larry Campbell, Kim Greene and Grant removed from the deprivations of urban Krause — keeps the material, which the life as he is from her own. The scene between two Detroit Lions cast also wrote, humming. The entire cast leads off the show with a jaunty tune in a locker room is straight out of an about the "sick and twisted" people overblown Broadway musical. One Lion who've either lived in Michigan, visit- (Funk) confesses his homosexuality to a ed, or, in the case of Yigal Amir, alleged- teammate (Campbell), who bursts into ly thought about dropping by. Really, you song about his own gayness and the swell say to yourself, this state has spawned world of homosexual life. Perhaps the most poignantly funny more than a few kooks. The rest of the revue races and mean- scene is between Clinton (Funk) and Dole ders, alighting on the racial tensions be- (Krause) on the roof of the White House tween a black suburban teen-ager and after Clinton has won a second term. As her family's "lawn man," a black Detroi- the two men puff on a joint together, they A PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER LARK Hi Entertainment Music Director Chad Krueger (at piano) and Grant Krause in The Second City's One Nation Undecided. speak of large and small events, but in the end are two men talking on a rooftop. Producer Lyn Okkerse remarked that while there isn't a unifying theme that holds the 25 or so sketches together, the songs at the show's beginning and end carry a similar message: America's only — Julie Edgar PHOTO BY MEILA PENN 'D3: The Mighty Ducks' Here come the bad guys. Eden Hall's varsity hockey TAMAR PIECZENIK AND team doesn't make it easy DEDE JACOBS for the junior varsity Ducks. SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS With an assol (Anent of prac- asically, we've skated down this rink tical jokes (such as taking before. Family movies such as Mighty them to a fancy dinner and Ducks, D2, The Big Green and Little leaving them the bill), the Giants all deal with the same story- varsity goes out of its way line. Team stinks at first, loses a couple of to make the Ducks' lives games, practices hard (with heartwarm- miserable. The Ducks' new leader, ing coach pep talks), and inevitably, wins. Coach Orion (Jeffrey But were not saying this is nec- Nordling), is a stern essarily bad, just downright pre- Moults disciplinarian. The dictable. In D-3: The Mighty Ducks, Charlie in par- Ducks, directed by Robert Lieber- man, the Ducks are back, having just won ticular, dislike his coaching full scholarships to Eden Hall Academy, style and resent him, until the snooty high school whose JV hockey Charlie learns about his team has held the state title for 20 years. scarred past. In time, they The Ducks, led by Charlie Conway warm up to him, and he be- (Joshua Jackson), are distressed to find comes a super and sup- out that coach Gordon Bombay (Emilio Es- portive coach. The Ducks are chal- tevez), who started the Ducks, can no longer lead them. Feeling a little aban- lenged to a game against doned, they enter the school year with the varsity Warriors. As usual, they win. Their vic- mixed feelings. tory is complete with action on ice, and, of course, high suspense until DeDe Jacobs is an 8th-grader at Sally the Ducks' winning goal. Allen Alexander School For Girls. 'This movie makes for good family en- Tamar Pieczenik is an 8th-grader at tertainment, but really, enough is enough. Akiva Hebrew Day School. consistency is her sheer diversity. "The song is saying we're all unique. One nation undecided is not a bad thing. It's a good thing," she said. Rated PG B After three same-plot movies, we say it's time for the Ducks to hang up their skates for good. 112 After pulling a prank on the Eden Hall varsity, Ducks Charlie (Joshua Jackson), Julie (Colombe Jacobsen) and Russ (Kenan Thompson) ridicule their helpless "victims:"