Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and the President of the United States are lost in the woods. No, that's not the set for a joke. This is what happens in the play "Camping with Henry and Tom" by Mark St. Germain.

And it's based on an event that actually occurred. President Harding, Edison and Ford were really on a camping trip. The imaginative recreation of that event is pretty funny, and really sharp. No matter what changes, things remain the same. It's 1921: President Harding wants to be with his mistress. Industrialist Henry Ford wants to be President. And inventor Thomas Edison wonders how the three of them ever got stuck in the woods together. Inspired by an actual camping trip taken by the three men, this Off-Broadway hit is a hilarious adventure with surprising relevance to today's politics.

Businessmen often get the urge to go in and clean up politics. Anybody remember Ross Perot? but politics is not the same as business. People are much more complicated.

The three men in the story are gigantically successful. But St. Germain brings out their human side in the very human circumstance of being lost in the woods. The story shows how people really do have pretty much the same things to deal with, wherever they are.

"CAMPING WITH HENRY AND TOM" CAST

L to R: Denny Blanford, Jim Gauerke, Roger Foster, Michael Jacobs

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