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Thus, the trash talking has already begun between these two cross-river rivals...
...which she grew up. "My perverseness made me keep it going," she says. The 80's hair she has maintained nearly into the next millenium serves as a perpetual conversation piece. She has been told that she resembles anyone from the vampire Elvira to white-trash TV mom Peg Bundy to country-western singer Wynona Judd. Which would Hicks most like to be? "Elvira, of course, but I fear I look more like Peg Bundy." Are these comparisons supposed to be compliments or insults? When it comes to Big Hair, the line between the two is blurry...
...itself--a grungy, industrial conglomeration of trash bins, street signs, scaffolding and stoplights--itself becomes a part of the show. At the halfway point, the cast drums a loud, brilliant, exuberant number against these street artifacts while literally suspended from the scaffolding. And in the show's final, climactic piece, everything from the man-size plastic dustbins on the ground level to the tin trash cans suspended overhead becomes a part of the show, as trash-can lids, hubcaps and more exotic instruments are marched in from offstage...
...apparent sincerity of Stomp's creators and performers about making trash culture work for the masses, there's a certain cognitive dissonance involved in shelling out a significant amount of cash to an upscale theater like the Wilbur in order to watch dusty young people in work clothes dance on a paintsplashed stage. Like last season's dominant theatrical event, Rent the show provides the slightly eerie aesthetic of the glamorously rebellious youth and zero-budget art--an image which doesn't hold up when the viewer's gaze drifts from the stage to the well-heeled, occasionally slightly puzzled...
...fight out there," Larson said. "Brown tends to be really aggressive. They were trash-talking and pulling our jerseys...