By Ernest Kearney — I always say, at least to anyone willing to listen, that the two most common types of failures, theatre-wise, are those shows which are wonderfully produced but have no idea, and those shows that have a solid concept and are poorly produced.
Princess Magic’s Trash Time Revue definitely falls into the former category.
Funny Eddie the Clown is not able to make the children’s party for which he’s been hired as entertainment, so the birthday boy’s mother (Kija Rae) hires Princess Magic (Misty Lee)— a homeless woman who lives in the shelter where also she volunteers— to fill in for him.
Thereafter follows prop jokes and puns and guest appearances from the Goat Doctor (Paul Dini), who shows a public warning film about lockpicking goats, Spencer Frankeberger (Spencer Frankeberger), who sings a disturbing little ditty about eye surgery and a nasty stripper (Bella Luna).
Word came to me that Misty Lee was an extraordinary magician and a superb comedian; sadly neither is apparent in this show.
All the talent, and there seems to be a lot of it on this stage, comes from film and TV and apparently they thought theatre would be easy.
They are wrong.
Aside from some clever lines, concepts which are not fully integrated, actors standing on stage as if in a void of performance and a good deal of money spent on costumes and videos, there is nothing really worth seeing that’s
happening on this stage.
Really folks, you should know better.
A LOW – VERY LOW TVO BRONZE for the HFF19 show.
Princess Magic’s Trash Time Revue
is a Fringe 2019 Extension
Saturday July 13 2019, 9:00 PM | 35 mins
at
The Complex Hollywood
6476 Santa Monica Blvd
For Complete Information: http://hff19.org/5897
For Hollywood Fringe Festival 2019 Events: www.hollywoodfringe.org/
