*SexyBack*
starring marsha
March 28th, 8pm, UNDER St. Mark's Theater, 94 St. Marks Place
a skankarama of intimate proportions
Every Tues
9pm
$3
UNDER St. Marks Theater
(a)musing Things
(a)musing Friends
photos by: Blair Frowner
"I'm sure I don't have to tell you how often life ruins you..."
- SexyBack
Does anyone think about the woman in the corner of the bar, the lady who dances to forget, drinks to become numb, watches humanity with an eagle eye and dagger tongue? Now you have to. A magical skankarama of intimate proportions.
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SEXYBACK
written and performed by marsha
directed by Bricken Sparacino
supporting living breathing props are: Emleigh Wolf, Brent Lengel, Sara Gaddis, Mike Ippolito and Mike Milazzo.
Original Music by Mike Milazzo.
March 28th, UNDER St. Mark's Theater
94 St. Mark's Place - 1st ave and 8th street
8pm - $12
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About:
Years ago, with her life in ruins, a woman gave up making plans and started swallowing drinks.
SexyBack is the story of one night in this woman's life, as she declares it's time for something new. To start it off right she's saying goodbye to all the drinks she has loved before in the roadhouse that has seen the better part of her last 20 years.
She bounces off of strangers and friends struggling to make sense of her decisions, her life and the past that always comes back around.
She is bringing SexyBack.-------------
Development and Origins:A group of friends sat in a room with me putting on every popular song the ipod held and I started dancing to SexyBack. One of my friends dared me to dance to Justin Timberlake at the open mic we go to every week. I took that dare, got on stage at Penny's Open Mic, put on an incredible dress I had grabbed at a giveway party and let it all jiggle out. Knowing that dancing for any amount of time onstage in an unchoreographed and unprofessional manner gets annoying I did a minute of butt shaking, had the sound turned down, and started a stand up routine. And SexyBack the Bitter, Drunk, Southern Belle was Born.
It was meant to be a one time thing but people seemed to like her.
In developing a solo show series as residents of horseTrade Theater Group It seemed natural to use this character. I figured it would be an over the top, blowsy tramp with many witticisms and critiques of the culture she sees around her.
The reality is when I closed my eyes and started writing I started putting the story of her life down. The story of her life on one night of action. The tramp is still there, the bitter - most definitely - but the woman herself became real, more than a caricature and before her career can start her story must be told.
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