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"AN EXTRAORDINARY WORK OF THEATRE... As fascinating as it is unexpected, subversive in such a startling way... A bittersweet, wistful, melancholy paean to America's lost innocence. ... shrewd, spectacularly evocative... Michele Schlossberg (gives) her most deeply felt performance to date, Bob Brader is utterly believable, Bob Laine is hilarious, and Bryan Enk threatens to steal the show in a bravura turn of stellar proportions... Who knew B-film schmaltz could be so effective, let alone so artful? ... IT'S A SWIRL OF GENRES THAT SOMEHOW CONVERGE INTO THEATRICAL GOLD." -- Martin Denton, NYTheatre.com She was one of the
most desirable, recognizable pinup queens of the late 1950’s.
She appeared on dozens of magazine covers, calendars, photo
spreads… And then one day,
she simply vanished, disappeared, leaving behind a legion of fans and a
tantalizing mystery… Who in the Hell is the Real, Live Lorelei Lee?
Veronica “Ronnie” Marshall is about to find out.
Ronnie is a struggling writer, burlesque stage mother, and avid
collector and dealer of rare Americana, specifically 1950’s and 1960’s
sexploitation and pinup memorabilia.
One of her contacts, legendary girlie photographer Burgess Link,
gives her an unopened box of old photographs to sell on commission – and
within that stash are previously unknown photographs of the mysterious
Lorelei Lee. When confronted
with these photographs, Burgess finally confesses to one of the best-kept
secrets of the pinup era: Lorelei
was his one true love, his muse, unbeknownst to his wife, her friends, and
the world at large. Now an old woman, mad, damaged, watching her life play out before her in a bizarre vaudeville circus existing solely in her mind’s eye, the real Lorelei Lee sits alone in an asylum on Long Island, nursing her wounds, pining for her lost love and her lost life, while Burgess, wracked with guilt over her illness, and still not understanding what drove them apart years ago, visits once a year, on the anniversary of her disappearance, hoping that she will one day finally reveal why she left him in the middle of the night all those years ago… Featuring a bevy of luscious chorus girls and starring DMT favorites Bob Brader, Bryan Enk, and Michele Schlossberg, and starring new DMT regular Marguerite French as the alluring Lorelei Lee; with a riotous soundtrack chock full of jazz and doo wop classics; and graced with DMTheatrics' trademark energy, wit, and candor, Lorelei Lee was an unqualified artistic success, and played to SRO houses in Fall of 2003. NYTHEATRE.COM REVIEW / PRESS PHOTOS ************ DANSE MACABRE THEATRICS presents in association with HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP
the new burlesque from the director of Sugarbaby and Antony and Cleopatra CATE BOTTIGLIONE * BOB BRADER * MERCEDES EMELINA * BRYAN ENK * MARGUERITE FRENCH * LARA HUGHES * BOB LAINE * MARISA MOSS * CHERYL PUENTE * MICHELE SCHLOSSBERG * JESSICA WELLS Sound design by Youthquake! * Special prop and set graphics design by Faint Hope Graphics * Choreography by Michele Schlossberg Produced by MICHELE SCHLOSSBERG * Written, designed, and directed by FRANK CWIKLIK FIRST PERFORMANCE: The Red Room, 10/23/03 / LAST PERFORMANCE: The Red Room, 11/16/03 |
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