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Cabaret Sauvignon's
MENTAL FLOSS
(original production)
Created
by Vatican Lokey
Original songs by
V. Lokey & D. Ball
STARRING
Vatican Lokey
Kate Arthurs
Don Ball
and 'Nurse Nancy' Fuller
premiered at True Brew
Cabaret, N.O.LA
June, 1998
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THE concept for
the show was deceptively simple; audience members would enter and "check-in"
with
Nurse Nancy, whom would
hand them a questionaire (see below) which they would fill out while enjoying
their drinks. Shortly before the show began, Nurse Nancy would collect
the questionaires and deliver them backstage. In return for their
answers, Cabaret Sauvignon would run the results through the Terpsichore
2000 Psychoputer and Vac-U-Seal ("keeps the readouts fresh!") and compile
an evening's entertainment "geared to your specific mental health
needs". Though the show was not reviewed by the local media, it was a wonderful
production featuring Kate Arthurs' brilliantly self-depreciating renditions
of "I'm Breaking Down" from In Trousers, and "All My
Friends (Have Great Neuroses But Me)", written for her by Vatican; an inspired
version of "What I Did For Love" from A Chorus Line with
Don doing the voices of Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy AND Fozzie Bear WHILE
playing the piano. In addition to his original songs "The Road Rage Rodeo"
and the title theme, Vatican's haunting rendition of "Whistling In The
Dark" (from the film Darling Lili) made New Orleans television
history when he sang it to Sally-Ann Roberts, host of the WWL TV4 Morning
Show.
It remains one of the more talked-of moments in the show's history.
On an interesting note:
In the middle of the first act on opening night, a lady in the audience
lost consciousness and had to be rushed to the hospital, effectively cancelling
the show. News arrived the following day that the lady was fine,
and was recovering well, but by then the word was out;
Mental Floss
was 'killing' them over at True Brew! |
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