The period flapper costumes and gowns are pretty good too.Īt 50 minutes, it runs 10 minutes shorter than the time in the program. Standouts included Anika Price as Roxie singing Roxie and Alexa Peters as Dorothy belting out Maybe This Time. What’s refreshing to see here is a mix of ages, ethnicities, body sizes, and - let’s be honest - abilities, among the cast, with everyone getting into it. The between-song dialogue is unfortunately rendered murky by uneven mic levels.īut nobody is expecting an amateur production to match the sound technology and polished numbers from the films. This musical is a great example of another aspect of the fringe - namely, providing opportunities for local companies to strut their stuff to a wider audience than friends and family on recital night.īasically a collection of songs from movies such as Cabaret, Chicago and Sweet Charity, it’s held together by a slim plotline of performers preparing for their opening night.
John Hirsch MTC Mainstage (Venue 1) to July 23 She also bares all about a very special childhood cat, challenging pregnancy, a marathon labour with her first, and the transition to motherhood in storytelling that’s as affecting as it is funny - even when the audience seems unsure whether it’s OK to laugh or not (It’s OK!). It’s a topic that has been fertile comedic ground for her - including the screamingly funny ending of this show, which will not be spoiled here, but is absolutely worth the price of admission. Morin-Robert, if you are unfamiliar with her other work, lost her left eye to cancer when she was two years old and has had a glass eye ever since. PTE - Mainstage (Venue 16) to July 24 Teri Hofford photoīlack Eye is Stéphanie Morin-Robert’s standup show.įringe darling Stéphanie Morin-Robert (the brains behind such hits as Blindside, Eye Candy and The Merkin Sisters) is back at the fringe with a standup comedy show that is at once dark, raunchy, vulnerable and incredibly sweet. Stéphanie Morin-Robert Performance Society If not for the horrific visage, Scud’s manic energy might suggest kinship with another weird, neurotic loner: Ed Grimley, with one major difference. There is poignancy in Scud’s utter solitude, enhanced by Kruger’s furtive, scuttling occupation of the cavernous empty space of the MTC venue.īut it is funny too. Kruger relies perhaps too heavily on an elaborate set of sound/lighting cues, but his invention proves to be rich. Enter Scud, wandering in his home looking for food and being sent into a panic by the intrusion of a pizza-delivery man. Once doctors rule out more mundane ailments, we’re left with the possibility Sam’s issues are psychological in nature. Kruger suggests that transformation in the opening few minutes, applying his makeup and dressing in his costume while casually discussing a health scare with the audience. Scud is a manifestation of mental illness, a vampiric withdrawal from society.
But of course, one should not anticipate an Abbott and Costello-esque horror comedy here. Minneapolis actor Sam Kruger’s alter-ego in this hour-long dark comedy is Scud, a vampire of the Max Shreck/Nosferatu school: pointy incisors, lifeless pale skin, exquisite 18th-century tailoring. BAT BRAINS, OR LET’S EXPLORE MENTAL ILLNESS WITH VAMPIRES Bat Brains, or Let’s Explore Mental Illness With Vampires, stars Sam Kruger.
0 kommentar(er)
