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`June Moon' is fun, frothy summer fare.(NEWS)
From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 20020723
Author:Royce, Graydon
Byline: Graydon Royce; Staff Writer
Ring Lardner's cynicism hooked up with George S. Kaufman's boy-meets-girl optimism in 1929, and the result was "June Moon," which opened Saturday at Park Square Theatre in St. Paul.
Lardner's satire of Tin Pan Alley - its hokey tunes and corrupting superficiality - challenges Kaufman's essential pre-Depression innocence, but in the analysis the decent are rewarded and the schemers are banished so that everyone goes home happy.
Director Peter Moore approaches this work as a curio not to be taken very seriously, seeing in the ...
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