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Girls Will Be Girls
Based on a film by Richard Day
Adapted for the stage by Jacob Christopher Green
Produced by Hubris Productions
At Center on Halsted’s Hoover-Leppen Theatre
3656 N. Halsted
Chicago, IL
Tickets: 773-661-0938 or www.hubrisproductions.com $25
Thur-Sat at at 7:30 p.m.
Running time is 90 minutes with one intermission
Through April 5th
Girls Will Be Bores
The cardinal sin of camp is to be boring and Hubris Production’s adaptation of Richard Day’s indie film Girls Will Be Girls is by far the most boring show I have seen in a long time. From the opening musical number– an off-key, lifeless delivery of the title song – I could tell that it was going to be a long and uncomfortably silent evening, but I had no idea that 90 minutes could go by this slowly. I found it difficult to remain in my seat and suspect that the only reason that others in the audience did so was because most of them were with a school group and couldn’t leave. With my best effort, this observation was the only humor I could find Thursday night at the Center on Halsted.
Jacob Christopher Green, who adapted the screenplay, stars as Evie, a washed up, alcoholic Hollywood never-was whose bitch-camp repartee with roomies Coco (Jason Dabrowski) and Varla (Shawn Quinlan) form the basis of the tale. I am told that the movie was riotously funny and I can see how a skillful director armed with the camera’s ability to focus attention on small detail could make a go of the story in the tradition of Hairspray or Pink Flamingoes. Unfortunately, director Anthony Guererro has no tool to focus attention thusly and whatever humor the movie had was left on the platform as this show shuffled off to Halsted. What’s left is 15 seconds worth of a mediocre Judy Garland impression that rambles around the ample Center on Halsted space for an hour and a half. Throw in sight gags that fall flat, uninspired musical accompaniment, technical faux-pas and a just a handful of memorable lines – no doubt taken directly from the film – and you’ve got Hubris’ Girls Will Be Girls. A complete waste of time.
NOT RECOMMENDED
Randy Hardwick
Date Reviewed: March 6, 2008
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