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| Dirty Blonde | Dirty Blonde Tickets from London Theatre Ticket Web | Dirty Blonde Closed 28 August 2004 is a romantic comedy about a gal, a guy, and Mae West...
Two New York loners, Jo and Charlie, meet at Mae West's graveside. Through their mutual admiration for this voluptuous blonde an unlikely romance develops. Magically woven into the story is a celebration in song and laughter of Mae West's racy life and scintillating career.
Cast: Claudia Shear, Kevin Chamberlain and Bob Stillman.
...Dirty Blonde is charming enough and perfectly well crafted. It hits all the major bullet points of West's life, deftly weaves her history with an unconventional modern romance, and is as camp as an arched eyebrow. But its writer and star Claudia Shear, like West, first wowed crowds with a play based broadly on her own personality, and this follow-up comes across as her homage to a trailblazing heroine. It is a show by, about, and probably for Mea maniacs
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| DIRTY BLONDE
Duke of Yorks Theatre
St Martin's Lane, London, WC2H 4BG.
Nearest Tube: Leicester Square.
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Opened 14 June 2004
Closed 28 August 2004
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Performance Times:
Evenings: Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm
Matinees: Wednesday and Saturday at 2.30pm
Performance Length: 1 hour and 45 minutes
Prices:
(including booking fee and VAT)
Front Stalls £50.00
Royal Circle £50.00
Upper £26.00
| Closed 28 August 2004
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| Theatre Review | Dirty Blonde...Closed 28 August 2004 A delightful, funny and touching entertainment, written by and starring Claudia Shear. The piece steers clear of the bio-play treatment, instead concerning itself as much with the effect of the Mae West myth on her fans as on the one-liner-dispensing diva West herself. James Lapine's engaging three-hander interweaves two complimentary strands... To adapt one of her classic lines come up sometime and see it.
The Independent
...To her credit Shear avoids many of the pitfalls of fag-hagiography by counter-pointing the story of West's career with an account of two loners drawn together by a mutual obsession with Mae... Shear recognizes West's iconic power and intriguing two-way relationship with female impersonation without lapsing into gushing idolatry... Shear also transforms herself with great style from the frumpish fan to the corseted, peroxeided Mae. She gives us the nasal drawl, the sexy strut evoking a truck-driver with hips and the suggestively lowered eyelids constantly drawn flywards... The show offers an affectionate tribute to a unique performer for whom every line told a dirty story.
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