{"id":2071,"date":"2014-12-05T16:04:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T21:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townsquareproductions.com\/?p=2071"},"modified":"2015-09-10T16:23:32","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T16:23:32","slug":"disenchanted-its-a-womans-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townsquareproductions.com\/?p=2071","title":{"rendered":"Disenchanted! \u201cIt\u2019s a woman\u2019s world.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">  <\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222; text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So wrote Irish poet\u00a0Eavan\u00a0Boland in her 1982 collection\u00a0<em>Night Feed.\u00a0<\/em>I\u2019m not sure what Ms. Boland would think of the riotous,     boisterous,   and occasionally shrill Off Broadway production of\u00a0<em>Disenchanted!<\/em>, a new musical that reinterprets our impressions of classic storybook princesses and heroines. But those looking for belting broads that celebrate womanhood\u2019s diversity in all its sparkly and chest voice glory will be amply satisfied with the results. \u00a0 <!--more-->With books,   music and lyrics by Dennis T.\u00a0Giacino,\u00a0<em>Dienchanted!\u00a0<\/em>begins\u00a0with the trifecta of ringleader Snow White (Michelle Knight), Cinderella (Becky\u00a0Gulsvig), and Sleeping Beauty (Jen\u00a0Bechter)\u00a0bemoaning \u201cOne More\u00a0Happ\u2019ly\u00a0Ever After.\u201d It\u2019s clear from the get-go that these women can sing through the rafters and have the chutzpah to boot. Ms. Knight is the picture-perfect Snow White until she opens her mouth and delivers a hilarious dose of\u00a0<em>Real Housewives of New York<\/em>. Ms.\u00a0Gulsvig,   with her ditzy, wide-eyed sensibility,\u00a0might easily have been plucked of the stage of\u00a0<em>Wicked<\/em>, and Ms.\u00a0Bechter\u00a0could be\u00a0Bridget Everett\u2019s sister. \u00a0 The rest of the ensemble brings to life familiar characters from the Grimm Brothers and other\u00a0Disneyfications. While lighthearted most of the time, Mr.\u00a0Giacino\u00a0doesn\u2019t shy away from exploring how mainstream media has manipulated many of\u00a0these familiar characters into stereotypes. Princess\u00a0Badroulbadour\u00a0is unfamiliar to most, but she is the basis for Princess Jasmine in Disney\u2019s\u00a0<em>Aladdin\u00a0<\/em>and finally gets a star turn of her own thanks to Lulu\u00a0Picart\u00a0and a brilliant costume design by Vanessa\u00a0Leuck, who leaves no bolt of taffeta or sequins unturned for her sparkling creations. Ms.\u00a0Picart\u00a0is equally entertaining as\u00a0Mulan\u00a0and Pocahontas. \u00a0 Other guest appearances include Belle, who questions her own dialogue with inanimate objects while bound in a straightjacket;\u00a0and Rapunzel, interpreted as a zaftigdominatrix who sings of being \u201cpimped out\u201d by \u201cV\u2019altDisney.\u201d Both are portrayed by\u00a0Alison Burns, who also takes on a beer-swiggin\u2019 Little Mermaid, bemoaning that she\u2019d \u201cgladly dump my six-inch heels to jump back in with the Moray eels.\u201d \u00a0 Cultural diversity is also on Mr.\u00a0Giacino\u2019s\u00a0agenda, saving The Princess Who Kissed the Frog (Soara-Joye\u00a0Ross) for a Motown flourish that brings down the house.\u00a0Ms.\u00a0Ross,delivers some of the juiciest lyrics, including:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cIt\u2019s been\u00a0hundres\u00a0of years<\/em> <em>but, at last, it appears<\/em> <em>there\u2019s\u00a0a new girl in town and baby\u2019s got back<\/em> <em>\u2018cuz\u00a0I am that storybook princess<\/em> <em>that\u2019s\u00a0finally gone black!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From that point forward, there\u2019s no turning back and the women are at full force,\u00a0evening\u00a0gloves off,\u00a0and ready for a musical theater knockout.\u00a0Once\u00a0can\u2019t help but be reminded of\u00a0the\u00a0glorious female comedians like Joan Rivers and Carol Burnett, who have undoubtedly inspired the cast.\u00a0Director\u00a0Fiely\u00a0A.\u00a0Matias\u00a0keeps things moving at a brisk pace, yet allows plenty of time for camp and hilarities, as well as the creative musical staging by Matt West<br \/>\n. The material occasionally feels forced, but with time, hopefully the cast will settle into the spell that\u00a0<em>Disenchanted!\u00a0<\/em>willcertainly be casting over audiences this holiday season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Disenchanted! A New Musical\u00a0Comedy <\/em>Theatre at St.\u00a0Clement\u2019s 423 West 46<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Street Through January 25, 2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> end253_() <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So wrote Irish poet\u00a0Eavan\u00a0Boland in her 1982 collection\u00a0Night Feed.\u00a0I\u2019m not sure what Ms. Boland would think of the riotous, boisterous, and occasionally shrill Off Broadway production of\u00a0Disenchanted!, a new musical that reinterprets our impressions of classic storybook princesses and heroines. 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