PAGING DR. CHUTZPAH
Monday, December 31st, 2007RECOMMENDED
“Never again will I lie down with a woman of the opposite sex without making a
total commitment,” swears middle-aged Manhattan psychiatrist Dr. Lester
Oronofsky (Marq Del Monte) to his receptionist Myrna Jorgensen (Alycia Tracy).
Oronofsky has, by his own reckoning, slept with “two baker’s dozen” female patients.
(With a private consulting room overlooking Central Park, “how could I resist?”)
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ALICE-SIT-BY-THE-FIRE
Saturday, December 29th, 2007
You might think that a nearly 90-year-old play by the author of Peter Pan, rather
preciously titled Alice Sit-By-the-Fire, would come across dated and dull to
contemporary audiences. If so, think again.
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THE KID FROM BROOKLYN
Thursday, December 20th, 2007
Danny Kaye is alive and well and performing in North Hollywood! Well, if not the
genuine article, then at least an amazing facsimile. Giving one of the most
memorable performances of this or any year, Brian Childers IS Danny Kaye in the
just opened The Kid from Brooklyn, now wowing audiences at the El Portal Theatre.
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BOB’S HOLIDAY OFFICE PARTY
Thursday, December 13th, 2007RECOMMENDED
Bob’s Holiday Office Party is an outrageously fun and funny 80 minutes of very non-
conventional Christmas hijinks, though probably not for everyone’s tastes. For the
uninitiated, the following paragraphs will serve as a preview of Bob’s R-rated
humor. But beware. Spoilers abound!
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HERO
Sunday, December 9th, 2007RECOMMENDED
Luis Alfaro’s Hero, directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera, is an intelligent and funny
comedy about a returned Iraq war vet and his L.A. based family. (Hero is both
the title of the play and our the name of one of the protagonists, though both
are used ironically.)
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Saturday, December 8th, 2007
The universality of A Christmas Carol has never been more evident than in the
Celebration Theatre’s fabulous new GAY adaptation of the Charles Dickens
classic. There have been numerous previous adaptations of ACC for “niche”
audiences. An imdb search turns up The Muppet Christmas Carol, Mickey
(Mouse)’s Christmas Carol, Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol, An All Dogs Christmas
Carol, a Diva’s Christmas Carol, A Flintstones Christmas Carol, Skinflint: A Country
Christmas Carol, Bugs Bunny’s Christmas Carol, A Carol Christmas (with Tori
Spelling as Carol), The Jetsons Christmas Carol, Brer Rabbit’s Christmas Carol, and
A Sesame Street Christmas Carol. Now, at last, the gay community has a
Christmas Carol it can call its own.
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A TUNA CHRISTMAS
Friday, December 7th, 2007
Earlier this year, Jaston Williams and Joe Sears brought the two dozen or so Tuna,
Texas denizens they created to La Mirada, in a big theater production of
Greater Tuna, which scored both of them Ovation Best Actor nominations.
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THE DESK SET
Saturday, November 24th, 2007William Marchant’s The Desk Set is an entertaining 1955 Broadway comedy which
revolves around one of the 50s’ biggest fears. No, not fear of communism or of
nuclear war, but rather the fear of the machine replacing man at the workplace.
Here, the machine is a gigantic (especially by today’s standards) computer called
E.M.M.A.R.A.C, nicknamed “Emmy,” and the workplace is the Reference
Department of IBC, a large radio and television broadcasting company in
midtown Manhattan.
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