Word: vamping
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...review a Pudding show? There's not a lot to compare it to. The Pudding is a genre of its own; where else would 16 guys dress up in drag, spout scads of puns, vamp around stage for a couple of hours, and end up high-heeled and scantily clad, dancing in a kickline lifted straight out of Radio City...
Saturday Night Live stars present and past make appearances. Jan Hooks plays a vamp with designs on Beldar. Phil Hartman is Marlax, a family friend back on Remulak. SNI creator Lorne Michaels is the producer here...
...trumpeter and his band. The choreography, by City Ballet's artistic director, Peter Martins, is pure syncopated glitz -- down, dirty and eye dazzling. It's an occasion for some of the company's stars -- led by Yvonne Borree, as perky as a coffeemaker -- to slink and stretch, vamp and vogue, wiggle their butts and show off. You'd think Bob Fosse's Broadway rather than George Balanchine's Lincoln Center was their spiritual home. Catch Jazz if you can: flash trash doesn't come better...
...Ravenswood), while Martin Pakledinaz's costumes evoke David Lynch's sanguinary 1984 intergalactic flop, Dune. In the famous mad scene, Lucia's descent into insanity is symbolized by a steep staircase, down which the white-gowned murderess floats like her Nosferatu namesake, Lucy Westenra, Coppola's hot-pants vamp extraordinaire...
...plays his actors off of the typecasts we've come to expect of them. For instance, Dracula seems all the more seductive for the fact that Keanu Reeves, the would-be romantic lead, is such a milquetoast. Ryder, after whetting our appetites in "Beetle-juice" and "Heathers," is the vamp we've always wanted her to be. And Anthony Hopkins, who claims not to have brought Hannibal Lecter to bear on his role as Dracula's off-kilter nemesis Dr. Van Helsing, nevertheless gives us a few sparkling moments of Lecteresque macabre humor...