Word: shear
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shear Madness is a hair salon on Newbury St., not one of those trendy spots where the staff are convinced that they are works of art, but a small place with gaudy decor and hits of the early eighties playing on the radio. Tony Whitcomb (Thomas Ouellette), the playful and campy owner, has a green apron--to match the wallpaper--and pink shoe-laces on his white hightops--to match his tight white jeans and pink polo. He also flirts like a horny teen, minces and flaps his limp wrist: Whitcomb exploits all the routine mannerisms used to indicate that...
...Shear Madness...
...play poses--literally--the obvious question: whodunit? Was it the queen, the lady in waiting, the grande dame, or the suspicious antiquarian? The right answer is any of the above. Shear Madness asks the audience to reconstruct the events, interrogate the suspects, and vote on the assassin. The ending of the play is democratically determined. Interactive theater, no less...
Some soloists, like Spalding Gray or Claudia Shear, play themselves. Some, like Irene Worth impersonating Edith Wharton, re-create celebrities past or ) present. Some, like Sherry Glaser or John Leguizamo, portray a whole family and achieve miracles of transformation...
...undertake improvements. "Some companies decide they can't afford it because of additional costs, such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, asbestos removal and sprinkler upgrades." Then he drops a bombshell. He has just come from Northridge Meadows, and that bothers him too. "That building had no plywood shear walls," he says. "It's a perfect example of a building that doesn't meet current codes...