But he is determined to keep Betty and more than willing to assert his manhood, even it it is just a few weeks old. He reveals early on that, except for Big Betty, the only other thing he has ever kissed is the stuffed head of the legendary Soady Buck shot by his grandfather 20 years earlier. That man is played by Nestor with a disarming charm, a determination that is as firm as his experience is illusory. Quinones is a scene-stealing delight as Betty, drinking the Soadys’ maple-syrup whiskey like water, not a whit intimidated by the men and, underneath the dirty clothes and aggressive manner, deeply in love with her man, despite the quite wild life she has led. When Big Betty appears at the cabin, dirty and wild and able to out-drink the men, violating the cabin’s all-male rule, the results are hilarious and maybe even predictable.
He met her at a kissing contest in a local bar and it was love as soon as he put his tongue down her throat.īeing the couple is yet to have a honeymoon, the men at the cabin, including “Salty” Jim Negamanee (Cary Jordahl) are determined to break up the marriage. The surprise: He’s gotten married to Big Betty Balou (Kalie Quinones, who, by the way, is small and slight despite the name). He comes to the Soady cabin for the first night of deer hunting to spring a surprise on his father, Albert (Michael Grenie), and grandfather Alphonse (Gordon Wells). “Escanaba in Love” tells the story of Albert Soady Jr., (Cory Nestor) who is to join the Army the next day to fight Adolf Hitler personally. “Escanaba in Love” is Jeff Daniels’ prequel to his “Escanaba in da Moonlight.” He wrote it after the first play proved so popular – and he has just premiered the third part, going back even earlier in the saga.Īll three look at the Soady family, residents of Michigan’s U.P., or Upper Peninsula, a place isolated from the rest of the United States, home to some peculiar traditions and a dialect part Canadian, part Finnish. There’s a lot of exposition in it that makes “Love” easier to understand. You owe it to yourself and your funny bone to see both, in either order, though maybe you should see “Moonlight” first. You didn’t see “Escanaba in da Moonlight” last year? Then quit reading right now and call Little Fish to reserve seats for both plays (“Moonlight” is being revived for six performances starting Thursday). If you saw “Escanaba in da Moonlight” last season at Little Fish Theatre in San Pedro, you are going to want to see “Escanaba in Love,” a precursor to the previous play, set in the same deer hunting cabin in the woods more than 40 years earlier.
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