Word: queene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bring the Island and then the world into his mind-control cult. ("It wouldn't take much for a Guyana little Kool-Aid to start a religion here," he muses.) He teams up with the witch, the innumerable romances start, a noted TV personality emerges from the fountain, the Queen falls in love, and so forth...
...BLOOD in the humor department is matched by new blood on stage. A few towering, er, figures are familiar from previous years--Adam Isaacs as Maxine the Mermaid, Christopher Charron at the Queen's dimwitted spinster sister Auntie Emenem, Michael Allio as the belle Constance Lee Whining, and Calnek at the Captain. The years appear to have taught them some important skills how to project a falsetto voice past the first three rows, how to act during a kickline when you're stuck in a mermaid's tail, and how to keep a straight face when your wig flies...
...only one. Taylor as the Queen is an equal match to Isaacs riveting performance. Where Isaacs slinks, Taylor jiggles. He fusses shrilly over Kitty Litter and conquers his hostility towards men with an alacrity that would have made Freud proud. Some where in the process, his lesson to Kitty on the Facts of Life and how to with stand them brings down the house...
...show's final big bonus is Don Meuse's extraordinarily varied and ornate scenery; the nine sets include the CocaBanana Nightclub, the Queen's ice palace (used for calisthenics), and the Little Swamp of Horrors, which sports a killer bush. Clever choreography around the curtain spares the audience the tiresome delays of scene changing--a blessing, since, when a show's whole stock in trade lies in being collegiate, even a little high-schoolishness can turn it sour...
...witnessing a 136-year-old in-joke is watching its effect on a total outsider. A Pudding audience's attention always flags by the middle of Act II, regardless of its dramatic quality, around about the time that the bottles of champagne from intermission run dry. By the time Queen Foraday and Captain Walter Wallcarpeting got together last night, fully half the audience was busy twisting around to watch Sean Connery's reactions. The Man of the Year had acted dignified and shy at the presentation, softspoken at the intermission press conference, but he did say it was his first...