Friday, May 1, 2009
Theater
Local Boy Girl Actor Does Good
Posted by Brendan Kiley on Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:44 AM
Nick Garrison is back in his wig and impressing them in Chicago. From the Tribune:
For this emotional and experimental John Cameron Mitchell rock show, the American Theater Company imaginatively re-creates the ambience of a sleazy rock club where a gender-confused Euro pop star is trying to make her tragic way in America. And director PJ Paparelli demonstrates that he surely knows how to use theatrical spaces in imaginative, even thrilling, ways. Nick Garrison, who stars as Hedwig, played this role to deserved acclaim in the commercial production at Lakeshore Theatre in 2001. He was good then, and he's even better now. Garrison has his girl down — needy, flashy, voyeuristic, disastrous. Through May 31 by the American Theater Company, 1909 W. Byron St.; $35-$40 at 773-409-4125.
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I don't get the headline...the actor is a gay man. The character is a transsexual MTF, and a botched one at that.
Lame.
also, I blogged this a week ago...and hesitated because the news was old then.
Lame.
also, I blogged this a week ago...and hesitated because the news was old then.
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Nick Garrison is the Yul Brynner of Hedwig... One day he'll b playing it whilst in a walker and using an iron lung... Just you wait and see, I tell ya'!
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@ 4. Your logic ruins everything. In my mind the headline was kind of about the actor, kind of about the character, kind of about the gender-smearing of the whole project, blah blah.
But you're right. It didn't quite work.
But you're right. It didn't quite work.
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A theater post that doesn't make me shake my fist and wish I lived in Seattle!
That said, fuck you guys. I'm totally going.
That said, fuck you guys. I'm totally going.
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