'Teapot' was opened Wednesday in an exuberantly performed, playfully naughty world premiere courtesy of Porchlight Music Theatre.
February 11, 2007 (Press Release) --
Consider this overview of "the state of the nation," circa 1923 -- all of it conjured with a wink and a Charleston in writer-composer-lyricist Jon Steinhagen's satirical folly of a musical, "The Teapot Scandals." The show -- directed by Steve Scott and featuring exceptionally dashing choreography by Brenda Didier. Here's the scoop:
• • President Warren G. Harding (Brandon Dahlquist) is a rather hapless fellow -- a compulsive womanizer of limited intellectual heft, who might or might not be suffering from a fatal illness. His current mistress, Nan Britton (Melissa Zimmerman), is hopelessly devoted and has had his illegitimate daughter. A former mistress, Carrie Phillips (Tawney Newsom), is now successfully blackmailing him. The members of his cabinet and their pals are gleefully engaging in every form of graft and corruption, with the nation's oil reserves being piped into private pockets. Meanwhile, the commander in chief holds fast to his favorite youthful pastime -- playing the tuba.
• • The matronly first lady, Florence Kling Harding (Elizabeth Haley), now on her second marriage, is vaguely aware of her husband's activities but has every intention of benefitting from his lofty position. To ease her loneliness, there is her "special friendship" with Evalyn McLean (Elizabeth Dowling) -- a much younger Washington socialite rich enough to own the fabled Hope Diamond. And oh, yes, like her husband, Mrs. Harding also might well be suffering from a fatal illness.
• • The U.S. Attorney General Harry Daugherty (Michael Rosenblum) is a smart, dapper, mostly in-control fellow engaged in all forms of skullduggery along with Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall (Marc Pera), Secretary of the Navy (Elic Bramlett) and Harry Sinclair (Tom Shea), an executive at Mammoth Oil. But perhaps the most potentially damaging aspect of Daugherty's life is his "roommate-private secretary," Jess Smith (Scott Gryder), a fellow who will pay dearly for his proximity to power.
• • And then there is Madame Marcia (Sara Hayes), astrologist to the Capitol crowd, who prognosticates on the grim future of this simultaneously scandalous and pathetic bunch.
Source: http://www.yahoo.com
POSTED BY HEDY WEISS
• • President Warren G. Harding (Brandon Dahlquist) is a rather hapless fellow -- a compulsive womanizer of limited intellectual heft, who might or might not be suffering from a fatal illness. His current mistress, Nan Britton (Melissa Zimmerman), is hopelessly devoted and has had his illegitimate daughter. A former mistress, Carrie Phillips (Tawney Newsom), is now successfully blackmailing him. The members of his cabinet and their pals are gleefully engaging in every form of graft and corruption, with the nation's oil reserves being piped into private pockets. Meanwhile, the commander in chief holds fast to his favorite youthful pastime -- playing the tuba.
• • The matronly first lady, Florence Kling Harding (Elizabeth Haley), now on her second marriage, is vaguely aware of her husband's activities but has every intention of benefitting from his lofty position. To ease her loneliness, there is her "special friendship" with Evalyn McLean (Elizabeth Dowling) -- a much younger Washington socialite rich enough to own the fabled Hope Diamond. And oh, yes, like her husband, Mrs. Harding also might well be suffering from a fatal illness.
• • The U.S. Attorney General Harry Daugherty (Michael Rosenblum) is a smart, dapper, mostly in-control fellow engaged in all forms of skullduggery along with Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall (Marc Pera), Secretary of the Navy (Elic Bramlett) and Harry Sinclair (Tom Shea), an executive at Mammoth Oil. But perhaps the most potentially damaging aspect of Daugherty's life is his "roommate-private secretary," Jess Smith (Scott Gryder), a fellow who will pay dearly for his proximity to power.
• • And then there is Madame Marcia (Sara Hayes), astrologist to the Capitol crowd, who prognosticates on the grim future of this simultaneously scandalous and pathetic bunch.
Source: http://www.yahoo.com
POSTED BY HEDY WEISS
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