Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Fringe 2009 - FFA 1 - Best Little Crackhouse In Philly

"We trade drugs for inappropriate hugs!"

Epic Arts Repertory Theater

Best Little Crackhouse In Philly (or Crackwhore - The Musical)

TAP-DANCING CRACKWHORES SING SHOWTUNES! Shenanigans abound as former Twin Cities theatre slut Stan Peal brings us his sick, twisted cabaret that won the top prize TWICE at New York's Bad Musicals Festival!

"Best Little Crackhouse in Philly" is a perverted satire with a not-so-subtle feminist message. Why stop at glamorizing prostitution with the likes of Dolly Parton and Julia Roberts? Why not sing about what really happens in a crackhouse? The addiction, the assault, the disease. Desperation, abuse and the occasional dead crack baby. Well... because that would be so very wrong.


And what better way to begin the second half of the Fringe-For-All evening than with tap-dancing crackwhores? Because really, doesn't the theater need more tap-dancing crackwhores?

I gotta hand it to this troupe. They gave it all they had. The crackwhores did indeed tap dance, and they managed to pull off looking both tired as hell, and musical number perky at the same time, don't ask me how. The guys managed to be both skanky and amiable at the same time, don't ask me how. The title number had that old time musical showtune bounce to it.

So if you're in the mood for lyrics like...

"Just bring your dick and stick it in a chick!"

or a musical that won top honors not once, but *twice* at the Bad Musicals Festival in New York...

then this is your show.

And if not, well, then you're me.

This one's gonna have no problem selling the seat I would have filled. Trust me.

Go with God, crackwhores and johns. I admire your pluck. And the fact that you did it all within the confines of the green light. Under 2-1/2 minutes to create a squalid little world. Well done.

Their website - www.stanpeal.com

Their show page

And of course, a musical trailer (now with 50% more projectile vomiting)...

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