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Shear Madness. Indefinite run. This audience-participant whodunit is about the over murder of a classical pianist who lived over the unisex hair salon where the show is St., Charles Playhouse, 74 Warrenton St., Boston. Call 426-5225 for tickets and more information...
...years pass. Mui (now played by Tran Nu Yen-Khe), a beautiful young woman, is sold to a handsome pianist (Vuong Hoa Hoi). Cinderella finds her Prince Charming, and an aristocrat is ennobled when he falls in love with a pretty peasant. Every fable deserves a happy ending...
...thick Boston accent and blue hair to match her clothes. The patrons of the salon are a hetero geneous group Mrs. Shubert is a Boston socialite--they used to call her Muffy at Radcliffe; Edward Lawrence (Will LeBow) is an antiquarian who conducts business with a famous pianist living in the same building. There is Mike Thomas (Mark S. Cartier) a geeky guy with a bowtie who opens his eyes really wide whenever Whitcomb touches him suggestively and Nick Rossetti (Michael Fennimore) who walks into the salon to the sound of "Macho Man," construction hat on. The play revolves around...
Soon, there is more than primping and styling going on in the salon. Lawrence turns out to be a suspect in the blackmailing of Isabelle Czerny, the pianist. Thomas and Rossetti turn out to be undercover policemen, summoned by her to keep an eye on Lawrence. Czerny turns out stabbed with a pair of shears...
Wodehouse's efforts have been cheered by her fellow aficionados. "The ones I've heard have a live feeling, as if Gershwin were there," says Trebor Tichenor, a ragtime pianist and scholar in St. Louis, Missouri, who owns one of the largest private collections of piano rolls in America. Agrees collector Michael Montgomery, whose archives contain 100 of the extant Gershwin rolls: "It is the most careful, scholarly, faithful, high-integrity job that has ever been done with piano rolls...