BUNNY BUNNY
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
He called her Gilbert. She called him Zweibel, accent on the “bel.” She became
one of the most famous, funniest, and most beloved comediennes of the 1970s.
He wrote for the TV show that made her a star and later co-created a hit TV
sitcom. They loved each other for fourteen years, though each married
another. They were the best of friends until her untimely death. She was Gilda
Radner. He is Alan Zweibel. Bunny Bunny is the beautifully funny, affectionately
written, and exquisitely directed and performed “sort of romantic comedy” of
two lives intertwined.
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CHESS
Monday, September 17th, 2007
Those who attended last night’s Chess benefit (for Broadway Cares Equity
Fights AIDS) expecting “just a concert” were in for a dazzling surprise. What
had been advertised as “Chess in Concert” turned out to be a fully staged,
fully choreographed, fully off-book production of the 80s Broadway hit. And
what a production it was!
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HAIR
Saturday, September 15th, 2007
The year was 1968.
16,592 American soldiers lost their lives in Vietnam, the greatest number of
casualties for any year of the war. At home, assassins’ bullets killed Bobby
Kennedy and Martin Luther King. 10,000 or more enraged Americans
protested the Vietnam War outside the Democratic convention in Chicago,
leading to hundreds of arrests and police-inflicted injuries.
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DEAD BRIDE RUNNING
Thursday, September 13th, 2007RECOMMENDED
If you’re a devotee of sophisticated, stylish and witty Noel Coward
drawing room comedies…check your theater listings for the production of
Private Lives nearest you. If, on the other hand, you’re a fan of Saturday
Night Live/Mad TV style outrageous over-the-top humor, Dead Bride
Running will be right up your alley.
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DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA
Friday, September 7th, 2007
In a city where most plays run 6 weeks or less, The Elephant Theater’s
production of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, John Patrick Shanley’s
unexpected love story of two very lost and damaged souls, has become a real
L.A. theater phenomenon. Recipient of the very hard-to-get L.A. Times “Critics
Choice,” Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, now in its fifth sold-out month, has
been extended yet again, through October. Last night I found out why.
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THE LADY IN QUESTION
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007RECOMMENDED
Nobody spoofs classic movie genres better than Charles Busch. On film, I’ve
loved his Psycho Beach Party (which as the title indicates spoofs at least two
genres at once) and Die Mommie Die (a brilliant takeoff on 50s/60s women’s
melodramas). Now I’ve had the chance to discover The Lady in Question,
Mr. Busch’s hilarious and spot-on send-up of 40s “woman in danger in Nazi
Germany” flicks.
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TALES OF TINSELTOWN
Friday, May 11th, 2007
This delightfully silly visit to Hollywood in the 1930s is sure to be a crowd pleaser for the Co-Op. Matt Lutz and Gwen Hollander delight as smalltown movie fans Elmo and Ellie (he wants to write screenplays, she wants to be a star) who meet cute and bicycle cross country to NGN (not a typo) studios where fame awaits.
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