By Ernest Kearney — A Very Die Hard Christmas is a rough little laugh-fest and delivers on what it promises quite nicely.
Wade Wilson stars as John McCane
Writer Josh Carson and director Gregory Crafts have taken the 1988 Bruce Willis movie blockbuster Die Hard and twisted it up very nicely. John McClane, the Bruce Willis part is now played by a black guy (Wade Wilson), Sgt Powell played by Reginald Veljohnson, a black guy in the movie, is now played by a talking snow man, Holly (Kiré Horton aka Mrs. McClane) can belt out a song here with a voice that could shatter the iceberg that sank the Titanic, the terrorist Karl played by Matt Pick doesn’t dance as well as Alexander Godunov but he tries, and some parts are filled in by puppets thanks to Bradley Upton.
It’s all rough and tumble done on the cheap, but the smart and very funny cast keeps the laughs coming. Horton and Pick are joined in the mayhem by Liesl Jackson, Carey Matthews, Adam Slemon and Robby DeVillez who all serve the silliness to the hilt. Wilson is top notch in his “Yippie-Ki-Yaying,” and the cherry on the cake is Jim Martyka who is much, much funnier than Alan Rickman in the role of the evil, nasty, no-goodnik Hans Gruber.
They even manage to get in my favorite dumb New Yorker slander of L.A. from the movie:
“How can they call it Christmas without any snow?”
(And how much snow do the East coast twits think there was at the original Christmas?)
To Crafts and his crew on A Very Die Hard Christmas, a GOLD MEDAL for serving up a bounty of chuckles.
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A Very Die Hard Christmas
Runs during
the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2018
at
studio/stage
520 N. Western Ave
For Show Information and Tickets Go To: http://hff18.org/5240
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