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Article: I spy a groovy spoof: Gaslight's 'Secret Agent Man'.(Theater review)
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- AZ Daily Star
- Article date:
- June 15, 2007
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Byline: Kathleen Allen
Jun. 15--This is how we think it happened:
Peter Van Slyke, being a child of the '60s or thereabouts, had the not-very-good-song "Secret Agent Man" rumbling around in his head.
"Hey," we imagine his saying to himself (for surely he would not have the nerve to say this to anyone else), "that would make a good title for a Gaslight play. And the cast could sing the song. Groovy."
Van Slyke often thinks this way, we assume, because he writes and directs most of the plays for the Gaslight Theatre, including the current one, "Secret Agent Man, or Gangsters Away!"
In this one, he decides to call his spy Jake ...