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c) X2f-r .1 ofciLY NEWS" 5) Mnnrliy. May 30, 1988 1 EXTRA ENTERTAINMENT! If REVIEW Sex Teenagers: Ifes, Ifes, Another 'Nanette' VJhafsthe By HOWARD KISSEL Daily News Drama Critic EAR ANN: REMEMBER THIS COL- umn? I took the original test 22 years ago when it first appeared. My children NO, NO, NANETTE. By Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar ana Otto Hamacn. witn Peggy Tapnom, Cnnstopner Scott, Aninony inneo, Richard Blair, Eleanor Reissa, Jeanntne Moore and others.

Sets oy Jonn Snimrock. Costumes By Lillian Giasser. Directed oy Margaret Denitnome. At ElT. vive "No, No, Nanette" in 1971, when "concept musicals" and social-conscience rock musicals were standard fare.

(This is not to imply "Nanette" was without social overtones. When Nanette says, "I want to raise a family, but I want to raise a little hell first," it clearly seems a protofeminist statement) By comparison to many of the even sillier musicals that have been exhumed since then, "Na- WE ARE NOW SO USED to seeing silly '20s musicals that it is hard to appreciate how radical it was to re are teens now and I'd like to see you update it and run it again. Today's young people are the leaders of tomorrow. We must give them some concept of how their behavior is viewed by society. This test could be a fair measuring device.

Bethany, Okla. Dear D.W.: The first Sex Test for Teenagers was written by a teenager in 1966. The response was incredible. Four years later, four Memphis teenagers updated the test and I printed their version. Again, the ceiling fell in.

Since then, thousands of updated sex tests have been sent to me by my young readers. They tell me that if I really want to help teenagers, I'd better tell it like it is. The column you nette" seems quite a solid piece of work, doubtless because of Burt Shevelove's knowing adaptation. The plot about a Bible salesman with a weakness for helping young ladies with artistic ambitions is still funny, and Vincent Youmans' score still seems wonderfully fresh. Irving Caesar, who collaborated on the original lyrics, has written both lyrics and music for a new song, "Love Me Lulu," which has nifty period style but adds little to the show.

Nor does the new, self-conscious finale. Still, the show that gave us "Tea for Two" is an endearing one, and the ELT revival is full of zest and obvious affection. Peggy Taphorn is especially vivacious as Nanette, and there are solid performances by Jeannine Moore as her guardian, Eleanor Reissa and Anthony Inneo as a worldly couple and Richard Blair as the Bible salesman. Danette Cuming, Cynthia Martells and De-bra Dominiak are very funny as the salesman's proteges. Niki Harris' choreography is lively and particularly imaginative in the seaside number.

Annie Lebeaux's musical direction is first-rate. Well directed, with an unusually solid chorus, "Nanette" remains a winning evening. seni was me mia i jmujig mum. I srfi leenage aex lest, submitted by five teens from Dayton, Ohio, with slight modification. I am well aware that many dramatic changes have occurred since 1978.

The test, as it appears, requires a major overhaul, and I can think of no better authorities than the teenagers who are reading this column today. ANN LANDERS SILLY BUT SOLID: Peggy Taphorn and Christopher Scott FROM HOLLYWOOD MARILYN BECK Studios Still Pitching Despite Called Strike Here's the 1978 version. Will you teenagers compose a test that you feel is appropriate for 1988? I'll print the best one. 1978 TEENAGE SEX TEST The scoring guide is at the end. For each yes answer, give yourself the number indicated.

Have you: Ever been out with a member of the opposite sex? 2 Ever engaged in light making out? Kissing but no intimate touching? 2 Ever gotten or given a hickey? 2 Ever said I love you? 3 Ever said I love you to more than one person in the same week? 4 Ever removed part of your clothing while making out in a car? 4 Do you feel guilty about masturbation? 2 Ever gone all the way with a member of the opposite sex? 5 Ever done so without using a contraceptive? 6 Ever tried sex with a member of your own sex? 8 Ever tried cigarets? 1 Do you smoke regularly? 3 Do you smoke pot regularly? 5 Ever mixed pot with pills? 6 Ever tripped on LSD? 7 Ever done angel dust, cocaine or heroin? 8 Ever had an abortion or been responsible for one? 8 Ever wake up and not been able to remember what you did? 7 Ever get a girl pregnant? 8 Ever considered getting pregnant so you could hook a guy? 8 Ever had group sex? 8 SCORING GUIDE 7 or under Candidate for sainthood. 8-16 Normal and decent 17-30 Heading for serious trouble. 31-40 In serious trouble and plenty messed up. 41 or over You are a damned fool or completely freaked out. Do you havo questions about hi, but nobody you can talk to about thorn? Ann Landers' aawty rovtsod booklet "Sex and the Teenager" will give you the answers you need.

To receive a copy, send 3 plus a self-addressed, stamped No. 10 envelope (4S cents postage) to Ana Landers, P.O. Box 11562, Ct CAfo, lU. 0562. IMS LA.

Times ej Creators Syndicate dreaming of the vacation she'll take after she launches her Tom Hanks picture Friday. "My body has called it a wrap," says the former "Laverne and Shirley" actress. "I've been working two years straight (helming "Big" and Whoopi Goldberg's "Jumpin' Jack and I need some time to get my brain back before I commit to anything else." Marshall admits she'd be happy to commit to an acting assignment, "but I seem to be getting more directing offers." One of those offers is to helm Jerry Tokofsky's "Goin to the Chapel," "which was originally presented to me eight years ago as an acting job." Job Performance "ALF" actress Anne Schedeen says her character will be undergoing a change on the series next season. "Kate Tanner is gonna get a job," Schedeen reports happily. "The woman doesn't work and has no hobbies.

She's a wonderful mother and a good wife, but I don't think you can find a wife or mother in America quite like her." Schedeen says her previous suggestions to flesh out her character were never taken seriously because "the show was created and for the most part written by men." -But that's changed. "This year the -head writer is a woman. And, she's real sympathetic ttvthe fact that Kate isrit a Whole person." WT-M HOUGH THE 13-WEEK-I long writers' strike has crip-U pled the TV industry throwing hundreds out of work and sending programing into a spin it's had little effect on the big-screen side of the industry. That, at least, is the word from the studio czars. The president of one major Hollywood lot tells me, "The Writers Guild talked so long about a strike that the studios had a fairly good chance to stockpile scripts, and production has been able to move forward on dozens of pictures.

Eight features are shooting now at Disney studios alone." Paramount has six features shooting or in active preproduc-tion; Fox has four; MGMUAfive, and Warner Bros three. A leading industry analyst notes, "The majors won't be hurt by this strike. The harm's been done to the independents and the producers that didn't have the money to stockpile scripts." There's no denying that some of the majors' production schedules have been affected: Producer Sherry Lansing says that her Michael Douglas starrer, "Black Rain," which originally was supposed to start shooting in June, has been delayed until September, although "the script is 85, perhaps per cent done." Anr) Parr' motintpresident Ned TanenTrbtesr MOVIE EXEC Sherry Lansing says "Black Rain" script is 85 done "We had to delay three or four films but they weren't even planned for release until the end of '89. We already have our release schedule pretty well set until late next year." Orion's Mike Medavoy estimates, "Even if the strike ran for another six months, maybe a year from this summer you might feel effects but they wouldn't be profound." He feels that "no matter what, movies will always be made, even if they're made with nonunion writers or foreign writers." The 'Big' Chill i "Bigy dirpptQr Penny Marshall' isliome'riursing a cold and.