🎃 Just in time for Halloween, handbagtheater offers us a campy sci-fi/horror show about Barbra Streisand cloning her dog. | Matt Simonette
From left: Brian Shaw, Nicky Mendelsohn, Tyler Anthony Smith, and Dakota Hughes in Hell in a Handbag'sDr. Barbra Joan Frankenstreisand —that ultimate hyphenate: superstar-mad scientist—has commandeered the stage at the Raven Room at Redline VR bar for what she calls a “clone-cert” to duplicate her beloved and very dead pooch.
Making occasional appearances are also Judy Garland , Oprah , and Barry Gibb —who ends the show looking as battered as Frankenstreisand’s dog—among others. Smith offers a terrific depiction of Frankenstreisand and really looks and sounds the part—with one exception where he lip-synchs, it’s him singing those Barbra songs. Smith’s generosity as both a writer and performer—ironic as he’s riffing on a person noted for being a control freak—is evident from all the moments the Hunchback just beams inHughes, a fabulous singer, is a standout. The show is the Hunchback’s journey even more than it is Barbra’s. The Hunchback opensoverture plays .
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