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""WOW. ... the most heartfelt and genuinely patriotic work of art that I've seen in I don't know how long... Not merely dead-on timely satire but (an) inspired masterwork... Michele Schlossberg is smashingly funny, Adam Swiderski is compelling and commanding, Alexander R. Warner is masterful, and Josh Mertz does his finest work ever... Marguerite French is smart, sassy, passionate, and perfect... brilliant, spectacular, socko, terrific... a miracle of staging... ATTENTION SAVVY PRODUCERS: THE NEXT BIG THING MAY WELL BE HAPPENING AT THE RED ROOM. THEATRE JUST DOESN'T GET MORE VITAL, ENTERTAINING, OR EXUBERANTLY IN-YOUR-FACE THAN SUGARBABY." --Martin Denton, NYTheatre.com, July 12, 2003 War, unemployment, terrorism -- what's a simple country girl to do? Well, if you're Bailey Sugarman, 17 years old and cute as a button (her friends call her Sugarbaby), you run away from home, with the help of your best friend Jesus, the mechanic who thinks he's Elvis, to see America, before it's all sold off, co-opted, argued away, blown up, or just plain lost. And if you're Sheriff Rufus J. Miranda, you issue an Amber Alert, hunting this cornfed firecracker across this great land of ours, not letting anyone or anything get in your way. If you're Rod Butane, best-selling, top-rated conservative talk show host, you accuse Arab terrorists of kidnapping the girl, and use her mission as an excuse for ratings, notoreity, and your own agenda. And if you're political filmmaker Mitch Common, you know you've found your new documentary subject, your new counterculture icon, and a license to print money. But if you're Sugarbaby, why, all you wanna do is see America -- open roads, crystal blue sky, drive-ins and casinos, the high and the low, and all the noise that everybody's making about you is just getting in the damn way... Time for drastic measures... Writer/Director Frank Cwiklik's first completely original piece in two years, and his first comedy since 2000's Amazons in Chains!, Sugarbaby! is a raucous, mischevious, sexy, nasty, noisy, no-holds-barred satire on American politics, mores, and hysteria, a cross-country chase that takes you from backwoods America to sin city itself, Las Vegas; from the marshlands of Florida, to -- Heaven itself?? Ending in a stirring, riotous take-no-prisoners march on the Great Mall in Washington, DC, and featuring a huge cast of some of the nuttiest -- yet somehow familiar -- characters this side of a looney bin, Sugarbaby is guaranteed to inspire, incite, galvanize, enrage, offend, and delight audiences of every race, creed, color, national origin, and political persuasion. You name it, it gets skewered. Are you a conservative? You'll be offended. Are you a liberal? You'll be outraged. No one is safe and nothing is sacred in the least political political comedy you'll see this year. Sugarbaby! played to packed houses throughout July 2003, garnering critical acclaim, and galvanizing audiences on both the left and the right. ACTUAL AUDIENCE RESPONSES... "I was sick of America and going to move out of the country. Now, after seeing this show, I have some thinking to do..." "You need to take this show on the road. A lot of towns and a lot of people need to see this..." "This was the best show I've ever seen. Thank you..." "I feel really good about everything now!" "I came from Washington DC to see this show. Why isn't it playing there?!?!?" "Thank you for giving America back to me..." Don't get it? You never will. Got it? You'll never lose it again. America feels good again... Thank you Sugarbaby... ******** DANSE MACABRE THEATRICS PRESENTS in association with HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP the new comedy from the director of Antony and Cleopatra and The Fugitive Girls!
AMANDA ALLAN / ERIK BOWIE / BRANDON KALBAUGH / DAN MACCARONE / ANGELA MADALINE / JOSH MERTZ / KEVIN MYERS* / MICHELE SCHLOSSBERG / ALEXANDER R. WARNER* / JONATHAN WISE / featuring ADAM SWIDERSKI as JESUS and MARGUERITE FRENCH as SUGARBABY Sound Design and Recording by Youthquake! * Set graphics, political campaigns, and logos created by Faint Hope Graphics and Design PRODUCED BY Frank Cwiklik and Michele Schlossberg WRITTEN, DESIGNED, AND DIRECTED BY Frank Cwiklik *appears courtesy Actors' Equity Assn. FIRST PERFORMANCE: The Red Room, 7/10/03 / LAST PERFORMANCE: The Red Room, 8/3/03
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