MAINSTAGE 1997 - CATCHING HELL -
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Published on: 11/22/2007
Last Visited: 8/6/2009
With the approval of Mickey, an angel representing the shareholders in Heaven, Mr. B ousts Lucifer and a new era in the history of Hell begins.
Torture, dancing, love-hate relationships, office politics and mountains of cocaine round out the evening.
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Tortured Souls - Marty Yu, Michelle Philippe
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Of course, there's the usual caviling by the supervisory level of unskilled demon labor (Quinn Sullivan and Jenifer Hamel encapsulate pretty much everything wrong with organized labor in their mildly engaged characters) and the stockholders' interests need to be seen to by representative Mickey (Piper Henry, in a chillingly perky power-suit turn).
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Visual jokes abound as well, most of them during the Hell's Kitchen scenes in which Tortured Souls #1 and #2 (Martin Yu and Michelle Philippe as pulchritudinous waitstaff) glide by in little red aprons proffering one body part after another.
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With people and archfiends this unrepentant -- even the beautiful Mickey, the haughty liaison from heaven, has the oily personality of a Hollywood gossip with a dozen scoops -- who really cares what happens to them?
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In addition to Sylvain's fine performance, Jeffrey Steven Smith does some lively dancing in the role of Dennis; Gerald McClanahan is the weasel you love to hate as Mr. B; Jay Harik makes a swell Lucifer; and lovely Piper Henry as Mickey adopts a pesonality just this side of chalk scraping a blackboard.
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Less effective, though equally committed to flamboyant roles, are Therese Tinling as Kitty, who demands to be victimized; Quinn Sullivan as Mona who speaks the immortal lines, "Yeah, hell sucks now;" and Martin Yu and Michelle Philippe as Tortured Soul #1 and #2, respetcively; and Jenifer Hamel as the rabble-rousing Carrie
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