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Buried under the avalanche of over-writing that is Island of Misfits (Thurs-Sun through December 21, tickets $10) is a very funny parody of the stop-motion holiday classic Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town. In this case, puppeteer Freddie Douglas Black (Geoffery Simmons, with a Poitier-esque suit and throaty rasp) has been called up for the Vietnam draft, so he heads for the snowy north (Canada) with his cynical, lovelorn photographer Snowflake Jones (Kaitie Warren) and stick-in-the-mud production supervisor Herbie Pickle (Patrick Allcorn)--they've got nothing better to do, since they've all been laid off. Stop-motion is cheaper to do in Japan.

The setting is the executive suites at a baby formula manufacturer, though that's just gilding the satirical lily--it could be any executive suite. Deranged by the entrance of the breast-feeding temp Gina (a home run performance by Maggie Brothers), Joe De Martini is the executive in question. He's played by Alex Samuels, who looks like Jeff Goldblum's cousin and creates awkward, humiliating situations as effortlessly as Ricky Gervais, with the added bonus of blurting out terrible, soul-bearing "jokes" at high volume. He deals with a breast-feeding employee as if she's a terrorist.