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...cast of Shear Madness varies slightly from night to night. Michael Fennimore, who normally occupies the role of Detective Nick Rossetti but was instead playing the part of barbershop owner Tony Whitcomb, is particularly gifted in hysterical antics. His outlandish gestures and quick comebacks matched his hot pink shirt and shoes and caused his fellow cast members to lose their straight faces. Richard Snee, playing the role of antiques dealer Edward Lawrence, became more animated as time went on contributing many amusing sarcastic facial expressions to the show and retorts to the audience. Chandra Pieragostini could have done much more...
...dingly dells of Titania and Queen Mab bordered on the badlands of sex, drugs and hallucination. The last two, especially, were never far away, and all three pervade Christina Rossetti's extraordinary narrative poem of the symbolic rape of a girl by the "Little People," Goblin Market. In painting the action was milder, but fairies were shown appearing in dreams to maidens whose sleep, as the phials by the bedside make clear, was induced by opiates. Then there were the magic mushrooms, which famously appear in Sir John Tenniel's illustration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland--the stoned...
...Chip Rossetti...
...script, by David Javerbaum '93, Chip Rossetti '93 and John S. Berman '95, is loosely, loosely, vaguely about intrigue and attempted murder in Ancient Rome and Egypt. Really, though, the would-be plot isn't much more than an excuse for a set of broadly drawn characters with funny names...
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...