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THE SUMMER DAILY



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By DIANE LEVICK
I'll never look. at a banana
the same way ... without think-
ing of the Residential College
Summer Theatre's adequate pro-
duction of the fabulous satire The
Banana from Outer Space.
Written by a '72 R.C. grad-
uate, Peter Anderson (who also
acts in it), Banana satirizes
everything from transcendental
meditation to TV commercials.
The dialogue is often brilliant,
the pace fast.
ACT ONE of this musical opens
with a truckdriver named Joe
(Mike Madaj) and his curler-
headed wife Rose (Peggy Jac-
obs) watching a late-night sci-
ence fiction thriller on TV.
The play focuses back and
forth on the middle-Amerikan
couple and the TV movie, until
at the end the actions of both are
chaotically interwoven as Ander-
son satirizes the concept-of real-
ity itself.
Starring in the TV movie is
Bennie Banana, the cutest piece
of fruit on two feet you ever
saw (?) Played beautifully by
Debby Krant, Benny never
speaks a line - after all, he's
from another planet - but en-
dears himself with a note asking
for "a little love" until his mas-
ter comes.
Out to "get" Benny, however,
is the Rev. William Joseph Crack-
er (Michael Parsons), a faith-
healer turned President. Sport-
ing an all-white (of course!) cow-
boy outfit complete with guns
and holster, Parsons has the
stereotype down pat.
WITH LINES like "Jesus never
cheats - he just bends the rules
Liza curtails
new affair
with Sellers
LONDON /1m)- The Liza Min-
elli - Peter Sellers romance has
come unglued only four weeks af-
ter Sellers pronounced it total
love, the two revealed yesterday.
Sellers said at his home, "We
are finished, but it was not my
wish." He was dressed in black
and appeared pale.
Four weeks ago, Minelli an-
nounced at a news conference
she was ending her engagement
to Desi Arnaz, Jr. because she
and Sellers were in love.
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Vol. LXXXII, No. 31-S
Thursday, June 21, 1973
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a little," Parsons gleans every
bit of satire from the words
with an exaggerated apocalyptic
voice. Shades of Billy Graham,
among others.
Jim Guthrie as Captain Zilch
does as good a job poking fun
at TV commercials ("Up-Chuck
Doggy Burgers"), celebrity inter-
views, and game shows.
Nick O'Connor and Jean Lien-
ert as Fred and Nancy, the young
unmarried couple who befriend
the Banana, have their ups
and downs. Val Gifford plays a
convincing Sapphire Slick, a very
cynical lesbian rock star turned
dirty-dealing businesswoman who
tries to exploit Benny,
ALTHOUGH THE RC Summer
Theatre doesn't have the money
for elaborate sets-and costumes,
what they've done for thispro-
duction in the East Quad AudL-
torium is marvelous.
The backdrop for alt the ac-
tion is a wall of bits and piecea
of Amerikana amusingly ar-
ranged . . . a guitar, skeleton,
red toilet, and 12-pack of Stroh's
included.
Benny Banana's costume, green
leotards and a yellow banana
suit stuffed out to the correct
shape, is another winner.
PUNCTUATING THE play's
t.v.
tonight
6:00 2 4 7 11 13 News
9 Courtship of Eddie's Father
20 Stagecoach West
24 ABC News-smith/Reasoner
50 Flintstones
56 Litias, Yoga and You
6:30 2 11 CBS News-Walter Cronkite
4 13 NBC News-John Chancellor
7 ABC News-Smith/Reasoner
91 Dream of Jeannie
24 Dick Van Dyke-Comedy
50 Gilligan's Island
56 Making Things Grow
7:00 2 Truth or Consequences
4 News
7 To Tell the Truth
9 Beverly Hillbillies
11 To Tell the Truth
13 What's My Line?
20 Nanny and theProfessor-
24 Bowling for Dollars
50 I Love Lucy-Comedy
56 Course of Our Times-History
7:30 2 What's My Line?
4 Circus!
7 Michigan Outdoors
9 Movie
"Tarzan's Desert Mystery."
(11943)
11 Parents Game
13 Truth or Consequences
20 Rifleman-Western
4 Cirus! -
50 1o0n's Heroes
56 To Be Announced
8:00 2 Billy Graham Crusade-Special
4 13 Rowan and Martin's
Laugh-in
7 24 Mod Squad
11 The Waltons-Drama
20 Wrestling
56 Playhouse New York Biography
50 Dragnet
8:30 50 Merv Griffin
9:00 2 Movie
"Son of Frankenstein." (1933)
Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff
Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill
413 Ironside
7 4 Jane Goodall
-Documentary
9 News-Don West
it Movie
"Petulia (1968) George C.
Scott, Julie Christie


brilliant dialogue are 1950's-style
rock and roll songs - w i t h
words that you'd never have
heard back in that era.
Unfortunately, none of the cast
can really sing, though some do
stay on key, and important words
are drowned out by the piano
and guitar accompaniment. The
staging of the songs, under the
direction of Pam Hendrick does
evoke the 50's greaser style, so
all is not lost.
Despite the production's rough
edges, it does justice to Ander-
son's fine satire. Ironically this
talented three-time Hopwood
award winner is now working
locally as a janitor. Beywthat's
one thing he forgot to satirize:
the job market.
Daily Official Bulletin
Thursday, June 21
DAY CALENDAR
Computing Center: J. Cederquist,
"Misceilagroaus Useful subroutines,"
413 P-A Bldg., 3 pm.
American Heritage Night: food of
San Francisco, League cafeteria, 5 pm.
Trotter House: Poetry reading, Trot-
ter House, 7 pm.
Residentialtollege Summer Theatre:
"The Banana from Cuter Space," RC
Aud, 8 pi.
20 Lee Trevino's Golf for Swingers
9:30 9 lhappy Though Married
20 SevenH ndred Cluh
56 Just Jazz
10:00 4 13 Dean Martin
7 24 Streets of San Francisco
9 All Around the Circle
50 Perry Mason
56 Masterpiece Theatre
10:30 9 Countrytime
11:00 2 4 7 11 13 24 News
9 CBC News-Lloyd Robertson
50 One Step Beyond-Drama
11:30 2 11 Movie
"In the Cool of the Day"
(1963)
Jane Fonda, Peter Finch
4 13 Johnny Carson
7 24 Crimewatch-Interview
9 News
20 Walters Family-Music
50 Movie
"Back from the Dead." (1957)
12:00 9 Movie
"The Locket" (1946)
Laraine Day, Robert Mitchum
1:00 4 7 13 News
1:10 2 Movie
"Three Secrets" (1950)
11 Newsj
2:40 2 News

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