European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 21, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4on television live on stage your favorite �?T60s family David Dishneau associated press of kids fill in the Blank a there s the Story a of a Man named a if you answered a Brady a get in line for the unlikeliest hit on Chicago s theater scene the real live Brady Bunch. The show is a live word for word re enactment of episodes from the Early 1970s television series the Brady Bunch. The All adult cast plays it straight from the Dopey sing along theme song to Little Cindy a irritating Lisp. The show has become so popular since beginning its tuesday night run in Early june that the 110-Scal annoyance theater added a second weekly performance in mid August. The cramped theater in a Funky North Side neighbourhood charges $7 a ticket. If the real live Bradys is Art a and not even the actors agree on that Point a it May be the first Case of Art imitating to sitcom life. A concept this loopy could Only have been hatched by people with genuine affection for the Bradys Sisters Faith and Jill Soloway who jointly produce and direct the shows for the act Reform theater company. A we pay tribute to the Bradys we done to disrespect them a Jill said. Like the Young professionals who fill the theater the sol ways  in their mid-20s and grew up watching the Brady Bunch which stayed on television from 1969-�?T74 and ran As an hour Long series in 1977 before hitting the rerun Trail. A we were All really jealous of the Bradys a Jill said a sentiment also expressed by several spectators at a recent performance. Brady envy its not hard to understand. In their suburban digs the Bradys lived in a universe far removed from the social and political turmoil of their times. Teen Ager Greg Brady never worried he might be drafted and sent to Vietnam. No Brady Ever wondered if Nixon was a Crook. Nor were the Brady children Ever stressed by the dynamics of their mix and match family a widower and his new wife her three daughters his three sons and Alice their housekeeper. Brady family crises involved such mundane aggravations As dads misplaced architectural plans and Middle daughter Jan sneaking a Peck at eldest daughter Marcia a diary. And As self styled Brady historian Max Merlin a Northwestern University film student observed a their problems always worked out in 23vi  actress eve plumb who played Jan in the series experienced the Brady revival first hand when the Soloway Sisters flew her in from los Angeles to guest Star in one of their shows during the summer. She played a bit part choosing not to reprise her role As pubescent Jan at age 32. It was a a totally bizarre experience a plumb said in a Telephone interview from los Angeles where she is a cast member of the groundings an improvisational troupe. She said she does no to understand the Bradys enduring Appeal. But she thinks the Chicago show is a sort of a  noted armed forces radio and television service has acquired 13 weeks of the original Brady Bunch to series. The Bunch arrives at an to in mid november and at other military stations in Europe after that for All those Kremlin rockers saying a i want my mtg a Here it comes a or at least an hour of it. Starting last weekend that most american of Youthful tube treats was beamed to 88 million soviet households on prime time to. It took the new York based mtg networks two years to reach a Deal with the soviet television company Gost Caradio to create a one hour show including a european top 20 countdown and Quot the party zone a both produced by mtg Europe. The show in English and subtitled in russian includes several commercials from such . Advertisers As la gear and  what they re watching the following Are the latest available rankings of television shows in America Starling with the top shows As compiled by the . Nielsen co. The season to Date ranking is in parentheses or an Quot a a for first time showing and the final figure is the rating which notes the percentage of the nations 92.1 million Homes where people watched the show.1 cheers 1  22.0 rating.2 Roseanne 4  20.3. 3 a different world 5  20.0. 4  movie a Jackie Collins ,�?opart3 x  19.5. 5 americans funniest Home videos 8  19.2.6 60 minutes 2 lbs 18.9.7 the Cosby show 3  18.5.8 Simpsons 60 Fox 18.4. 8 who a the Boss tie 12  18.4. 10 head of the class 22  18.0. 10 empty nest tie 10  18.0. And these Are the least watched shows the ones at the Bottom of the Nielsen ratings. 77 americans most wanted Fox 5.9. 77 life stories tie  5.9.79 cops Fox 5.8. 80 totally hidden video Fox 5.4. 81 True colors Fox 5.3.82 Hull High  4.7. 83 haywire Fox 4.2. 84 Fox movie a off limits 4.0.85 Dea Fox 3.9. 86 american chronicles Fox 3.6. 87 against the Law Fox 3 3. A associated press 1 he cast of a the real live Brady Bunche at Chicago a annoyance theater. C to plus sunday october 21,1990