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| our group's table in the cabaret theatre |
If you’re looking for an evening of pure fun on a girls’
night out, this is it. This combination of skits, improvisation, song, and
dance is hysterical from beginning to end. Even before the beginning, as the
actresses lounge on stage in their underwear, welcoming audience members with a wave as
if we were already best friends, coming for a sleepover. My friend Mary Ann
even went to talk to them before the theatre went dark! You’ve got to give actress and co-writer Linda Klein credit
for guts and self-confidence, since she’s more like an older Lena Dunham than
an older Keira Knightley… Amie MacKenzie, who plays the part written by and
originally for Barbara Gehring, reminded me of a cross between Tina Fey and
Mary Steenburgen.
Both women were thoroughly entertaining and quick on their
feet, and even the one man in the audience enjoyed the show (although I’m not
sure he got some of the jokes, and some of them had to make him downright
uncomfortable!). And I suspect that all of the women in the audience could
relate to most of the show, from the dramatic pre-teen diary entries, some of
which no longer made sense to their adult selves, to a post-menopausal sketch
on recycling ideas for sanitary products.
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| girls' night out, posing with Linda Klein and Amy MacKenzie (front middle & right) after the show |
The promotional material for “Girls Only – The Secret Comedy
of Women” says it best:
“Born out of the earnest and sweetly ridiculous writings the
two authors discovered in their girlhood diaries, the GIRLS ONLY mix of sketch
comedy, improvisation, audience participation, and hilarious songs and videos
will remind you that underneath, women all have very funny and charming
feminine similarities. Bring your mothers, daughters, sisters and girlfriends;
we promise you’ll leave laughing, ready to dig out YOUR diary!”
The show made me thankful that decades ago, I did a last
reading through my teen diaries (seriously, who was that depressing girl?!) and carefully shredded them,
so no one else would stumble on them. But the show also made me want to go
again, if I can find the time to fit it in. The show runs until November 16 at
the Downstairs Cabaret Theatre at Winton Place.
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