This weekend will be the last performances of a play I have been directing — Lovesick: The Cat Allergy Musical. Its the story of a woman, looking for love in all the wrong places — specifically, trolling the internet. As each new goofy & inappropriate guy comes over, she falls quicky in love. And her cat, Lucky, finds new ways to dismiss each of the dates with brutal comedic torture.
Her version of the story is that her cat is ruining her life. His version is that he’s protecting her from doing something stupid. The tension between Serenity & Lucky is so good, it reminds me of home. I keep finding dark meanings in the songs (written by Darkroom producer Jim Fourniadis), and in the text, which my soon-to-be-ex-wife, the author, swears are not there. But I know what happens in our kitchen…
In fact, when I first read the play, I wanted to direct it very dark. The humor would be wrung from the audience, thirsting for solace and release. But the author wanted it light and fluffy. Its definitely not that, and I do believe she put her feelings about our dissolving marriage into the script. But its also brutally funny and smart and fast-paced and chock full of 10 original pop-rock-punk songs by Jim Fourniadis that I simply can’t stop singing. And I don’t even like to sing.
If you ususally don’t like theatre, come to the Darkroom sometime anyway. If you’re not happy, I’ll consider a refund. They’ve done so many great shows — Clue, Princess Bride, 2 seasons of Twilight Zone episodes, Zippy the Pinhead (written & co-directed by me). Its an old punk rock bar & record store turned into a punk rock theatre. If you subscribe to my RSS feed, news of my next show will arrive automatically. Er, maybe…