Pudding Hopes 'Belles' Sells

This year's all-male, pun-filled Hasty Pudding Theatrical production will concern a battle of the sexes between conquistador's and Amazons and is set on a jungle island.

"Jungle Belles," written by Theatrical veterans Anthony Calnek '84 and Alison Taylor '84, will open February 22 and run through March 21, co-producers Gail Aidinoff and Thomas Strickler said yesterday.

The fourteen-song musical traces the return of the conquistadors to an island in search of "God, Gold and Girls," 25 years after the Amazons had expelled them, the producers said.

The 136th consecutive show will be performed, produced and managed entirely by Harvard undergraduates Michael Percival, who directed last year's Pudding Show "Mice and Men" will also direct "Jungle Belles."

After the show's four-week run at the Hasty Pudding Club, the 70-member company will tour New York and Bermuda.

According to the producers, the show will probably also air on cable television as it has in past years, although no contract has been signed.

"Jungle Belles" won out over six other scripts, Aidinoff added.