Restoring The Norm

TITLE: WILD MEN!

AUTHORS: MUSIC AND LYRICS BY MARK NUTTER; BOOK BY PETER BURNS, MARK NUTTER, ROB RILEY AND TOM WOLFE

WHERE: OFF-BROADWAY

THE BOTTOM LINE: The men's movement might howl at the moonshine, but George Wendt fans get to chortle once more.

Yes, the pseudo-war chant songs make rap sound melodic. Yes, the plot is thin and predictable and the execution as slick as a frat-party drag show. All that has little to do with why a featherweight send-up of the men's back-to- primal-nature movement ran a year in Chicago and has chugalugged onto off- Broadway. The show offers fans...

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