Leading Lady: A Memoir of a Most Unusual Boyīeyond Ridiculous: Making Gay Theatre with Charles Busch in 1980s New York Two books about Charles Busch and Theater-in-Limbo “The Writing on the Stall” made me uncomfortable at numerous times and in numerous ways. ![]() I above all found the show deeply weird – and that was before it swerved unexpectedly into a personal memoir of trauma. Full Review The Writing On The StallĬaitlin Cook has reportedly spent ten years researching graffiti in public bathrooms, and five years turning the graffiti into songs, which she now has put together for an hour-long show billed as “a one woman bathroom graffiti musical’… doesn’t readily fit any one genre: It’s musical theater, sort of, stand-up comedy, gross-out comedy, anthropology, art history, a jokey kind of feminism. On the other hand, the premise is familiar, the way it plays out offers little fresh insight or originality, and neither the lyrics nor the dialogue offer much in the way of subtext or subtlety. Not a positive experience, don’t know if it was my seat in the mezzanine section or just poor audio system in the theatre.Louis Josephson, who is still a student at Juilliard, has composed a competent rock score, full of propulsive arrangements, with soaring arias, duets and ensemble numbers delivered by a young appealing cast of powerhouse singers. Majority of the show I could not make out what the cast were saying. ![]() The shows set designs were spectacular, unfortunately what ruined it totally for me was the audio. Got tickets to see Alladin at the New Amsterdam theatre. This was my first time to New York and wanted to take in the whole Broadway show experience.
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