Word: neato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...double bill of sex and hilarity, "The Adventures of Captain Neato-Man" and "Sex Lives of Superheroes" came to the Loeb Ex this past weekend. The similar themes and overlapping casts were channeled differently in each play, so while "Captain Neato-Man" depended on its witty dialogue and interactions between the cast for laughs, "Sex Lives of Superheroes" derived its humor from its monologues and its situational premise...
...Adventures of Captain Neato-Man," the superstraight young Larry (Nick Parillo) comes to an apartment in response to a secretarial ad. Timidly entering the open door, he soon finds himself cornered on the couch by a lusty woman in a leopard-print dressing gown (Jessie Conrad), who accuses him huskily of breaking in and trying to take advantage of her. Just then a curly-haired apparition in full superhero gear bursts...
...turns out, Capt'n Neato-Man ("All the good superhero names were taken") put the ad in the paper to find his sidekick, Horatio. "We put it in the secretarial section to throw off the commies," he confides. His mother is on the lookout for something else altogether, but Larry resists both of them; he's looking for a real job, having been fired from McDonald's ("The epitome of the American Dream!" breathe the Captain and his mother), and he's waiting for his true love to come along...
Adam Green is the split-personality Capt'n Neato-Man, who switches personae from mama's boy to bully to sexy, self-assured superhero in the three-way tug-of-war over "Horatio." At the heart of the story is the question, "Will Larry agree to give up his identity and become 'Horatio'?" Towards the end, the script dips into banality, pitting Larry against the Cap'n in the worn-out opposition between the "Get a real life" and "Live your dream" schools of thought. Overall, however, great lines ("You can't have sex without love!" "What are you, kidding...
...greatest time ever at Levertt's Anti-Valentine's Day Dance. It was soooo much fun! They had funky music, rad people, and neato-mosquito posted personal ads. How do they do it, Norma? Elated in Eliot...