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The bubbly flows freely in this triple header of Coward shows, all set in the same hotel room, but fizz and sparkle are in short supply despite terrific Tara Fitzgerald, writes GEORGINA BROWN…
Three plays, set in the same luxurious suite in a Swiss hotel where the same waiter, Felix, tops up the bubbly for the same trio of actors with one hell of a lot of lines to remember.
While Fielding’s deliciously vulgar, socially aspirant American, hosts a dinner party for the Euro-trashy beau monde, the husband funding her fun flirts with Fitzgerald’s husky, sexy, hippy chick Maud. Backstage in a theatre, three women sit at their dressing-room tables looking into bulb-framed mirrors, ciggy in one hand, mascara in the other, and share composer and lyricist Jerry Herman’s wonderful gay anthem from La Cage Aux Folles: ‘I am what I am and what I am is an illusion.’ Never mind, this is show for Herman’s hermits, aficionados on first name terms with Jerry’s Girls, both the vivid women characters he created and the stars — Carol Channing, Pearl Bailey, Chita Rivera, Angela Lansbury, Barbra Streisand and the rest — who brought the likes of Mabel, Dolly Levi and Auntie Mame to unforgettable life.
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