Word: flingus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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House of Blue Leaves is, in fact, a veritable zoo. Flamboyant Bunny Flingus wants nothing more than to go to Hollywood, where, she imagines, "they're out there frigging and frugging and swinging and eating and dancing." It is the absence of exactly this vigor that Bunny notices in would-be songwriter Artie Shaughnessy: "no man takes a job feeding animals in the Central Park Zoo unless he's afraid to deal with humans...
There are some divergences: Nell Benjamin's Bunny Flingus seems substantially younger than the early 40s she is expected to be; and Faith Salie's Bananas seems lost rather than sad. It's hard to believe she stays in her room crying "all the time" as Artie says, or, for that matter, "for the last six months," as the stage directions stipulate...
Producers Caitlin Cronin and Kate Gellert and set designer Catherine Zipf have created a set which looks like a messy vintage New York apartment but is still cleanly functional. Costume designer Meg Gleason skillfully outfits Bananas in a soulfully dramatic dress in the last act. Gleason chooses for Bunny Flingus hot pink ski pants that speak volumes about her personality...
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