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A Very Crime
Scene Christmas
Sacred
Fools Theater 660 N. Heliotrope Drive, Los
Angeles
For the first
time in its four-year run, the late-night comedy serial "Crime
Scene" is presenting holiday-themed story lines in "A Very
Crime Scene Christmas" at Sacred Fools
Theatre. The mysterious
writer Dr. Jeuss returns with a hysterically funny,
foulmouthed follow-up to last year's "Who Slew Simon Thaddeus
Mulberry Pew." Under the direction of Joe Jordan, the cast is
pitch perfect. Pew (Rick Von Schnier), bitterly angry over
receiving something worse than coal, is out to steal
Christmas. Can the fuzzily green Whizzit (Dean Jacobson) save
the world from disappointed, rampaging
kiddies? Michael Farkash's "A
Holly Jolly Marxist Christmas or Elves of the World Unite!,"
under the loose but forgivable direction of Paul Byrne,
features the slave-driving Santa (Stan Freitag) plagued by a
Marxist revolution led by Rudolph (Mikhail Blokh). The Easter
Bunny (Kirstin Burbank) and Santa's old flame, the Tooth Fairy
(Kara Leigh), come to his aid, but will Santa and the elves
(Corey Klemow and David Tiktin) be united in time for
Christmas? In a long death
scene in "Naughtyville," written and directed by Andy Corren,
Steve Vaught plays Eisenhower Ruthmore, the murdered mayor of
Niceville. Eisenhower's son, Joey, a virginal 18-year-old with
a pageboy haircut, falls in love with Emmy Jay (Rachel Dara
Wolfe), the Naughtyville teenage pregnant whore. The lovers
witness the murder, but only Emmy Jay knows the full extent of
evil under the perfect exterior of Joey's mother, Mamie (Lori
Funk). Silly and irreverently
hilarious, these holiday tales have their concluding episodes
on Saturday.
--JANA J. MONJI, Special to The
Times
Through Dec. 22 Saturdays, 11
p.m.
Price: $7. Tickets: Box
office: 310-281-8337.
Copyright 2001 Los Angeles
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