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Monday, June 05, 2006
Two Musicals
One to see, one to avoid:
SARSICAL, the musical about the SARS crisis in Toronto is a clever & fun musical. The cast, mostly Second City vets, were strong & sharp and the musical numbers are clever. We saw it on opening night last week. It runs at the Factory Theatre to June 18.
But stay away from Fame Becomes Me, Cheaplaff's mock autobiographical one man show. It strings together a bunch of lame skits supposedly parodying the hunger for gossip fueled by the tabloid gossip rags and the whole thing rests on Short's charm. If you like Short, you'll be able to sit through it, if you don't ...
The audience seemed to like it enough and the biggest laugh came when the black woman called Short a "motherfucker". There's also a number featuring Short as a baby in a nusery singing about how much he loves "titties". Yeah, it's that funny. If you're old and rich, check it out, otherwise give it a miss.
On last thing: While we were waiting for SARSICAL to begin, there was a crew from The National doing a story on the play and the reporter was Sandra Abma, who was my creative writing teacher in grade 13, so we got caught up a little 18 years later.
10:08 PM
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