Hooray for money!

Three cheers for cold, hare cash!

Yippee for gold! Hooray for money!

Build up a private slash!

The plotline, though as irrelevant as usual t the rest of the proceedings, goes basically as follows. Heroine Angela Mercy's adlun Issacs) arrives in Collier Bluff to claim the untapped mind. The Patco Strike"--that belonged to her late her late father, Evan But Yuvantsum (Michael Rapposelli)--who incidentally something like A. Barilett Giamstti. Angela and Gustave acquire allies for her, the wimpy hotel proprietor Heat A. Nytheguy (John Stimpson) and heroic intervener Dwight Turheto. (Brooks Whitehouse): for him, mistress Helen Highwater (Terry, Ray, Robinson, town marshal Annie Gitchergun (Rick Reynold) Festus Gunnsinawest (Jonathan Isham). and old flame Micheal Loud (Chad Hummel). But rifts develop, and fortuitous break up the quest for Angela's fortune. Sex is also at them.

But nobody comes to the hasty Pudding Theatrical to see plot. They come to see singing and dancing and grown men dressed as women. The singing, on the whole, is quite many of the show's female numbers suffer from cracking. The exception is Robinson who as Helen the show with his her (dare I say sensual!) "Strip Robinson and Stimpson who as Nytheguy succes putzy exterior with relatively forceful singing, stand out for genuine acting amid the puns.

And, no surprise, those puns are are as plentiful and pun gent as ever Consider the following.

"You've heard of the Bible Belt will this is the Chastity Belt."

"You sure these girls are a claste"

Yes--all over the place."

Occasionally the theme shifts

"I'll give that back stabber a cut, and then I'll have the edge."

"My neck is killing me, Did you ever wake up with a jerk?"

"I didn't are for his Lavantis mens."

The jokes fall flat now and again. Heath after encountering mass hissing for a pun, turns unpleasantly to the audiences and says. You think that's joke' Look at your date. But such gattes are more than offset by other yuk yuks meluding one American Express gag that deserves to be kept quiet.

THE PLOT evaporates into a series of one seene after intermission, but the second and concluding act is mercifully short enough to avoid killing the fun. The audience is growing a little impatient by now, waiting for the Theatrical's can-can forte, and people begin to shout at the actors in mid song and mid dialogue "Funnler. Louder!" one person yells. "You're so sexy great legs, Rick!" shouts out another Moments later. "Take it off" becomes a back-row rallying cry. another patron with high alcoholic content loudly observes to Gustave that he is fat. But the overriding chant is Rick-line!" The audience is turned on by a long and superbly choreographed lead-in to the show's footwork finale, and 12 Holyoke St. shakes when the hirsute legs go up.

By this time, things have gotten pretty much out of control in the audience, anyway. Numerous bottles of bubbly have been carried into the house after the intermission, and there is much merriment Behind me, a sloshed woman loudly asks her escort to explain a pun "What's that mean--penis?" At one poirt, cries of "Freshman Mixer" and "Buzz Aldren!" go up. In the center section, guest-of-honor Steven Spielberg, the Pudding's newly crowned Man of year, looks mildly bewildered. E.T., after all never had too deal with alumni.

Things get ugly once. During the intermission hobnobbing session, scuffle breaks out, as a roaringly drunk patron takes on in rapid succession a woman, her escort, a bouncer and numerous gallant penguins. The Cambridge cops pull up, and, after a messy struggle shove the man, his mouth bleeding, into the squad car.

Inside the Hasty Pudding, though, it's business as usual, which is to say surreal. Patrons crowd up against the window and wave good-bye to their incarcerated comrade. A couple happily necks in the window, breaking occasionally to beckon farewell, too. A woman taking in the scene shrugs without surprise. "It's the Hasty Pudding, is know.." she says. "I guess we're competing with the Loeb Ex."