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I've portrayed a wide variety of
characters in my theatrical career, from a singing cat to a Siamese twin.
While I have never been one of those actors who "lives"
a part, I have found that some characters have taken up permanent residence
in my warped psyche. Here are some of my multiple personalities on-
and off-stage:
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My obsession with Bollywood movies lead to my being a Bollywood dancer for Halloween 05. Evil Twin John joined
me for the annual Halloween block party on Cedar Springs. While we were posing for pictures, John was recognized by a "robot" who had seen him in several Uptown shows.
The following Halloween, my Evil Twin had a sprained ankle and didn't make it to the block party, but I continued my new tradition and went Bollywood again, this time in a vibrant print sari I had purchased the week before. |
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Photographer Mark
Oristano created a photo exhibit at the Trinity River
Arts Center using well-known local performers to recreate famous
actors and scenes from posters, films, and TV. My Wild Party hubby, Zak Stefaniak, worked some make-up magic to turn me into Lucille Ball. My *hubby* also worked some of his own magic as a photographer to create the cool 1920s photo of me during Wild Party - he did pics of the whole cast that are available at his CafePress store.
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As Queen Evianna of Aquatania
in 20,000 Babes Beneath the Sea,
I was dubbed the queen of campy tragedy and described as "channeling
Carol Burnett". All I can say is it's good to be the queen.
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Bettina Barnes in Psycho
Beach Party. Bettina was a B-movie actress, the perfect dim-bulb
bimbo starlet. The animal print pants and shoes somehow found their way into
my closet at home (What a surprise!) |
Doña Carla de Lagrimas in
Tearjerker! I found myself channeling Joan Crawford with a Spanish accent as the embittered
wheelchair-bound wife of Don Donny. I consider the striptease I performed
in the wheelchair a high point of my career.
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See if you can follow this
character subtext for the play-within-the-play: Andi as English
music hall male impersonator Alice Nutting dressed as Edwin Drood performing
a dramatization of Charles Dickens' Mystery of Edwin Drood in the musical
Drood! Not only did I get to throw an actor's tantrum onstage every
night, I got to return from the dead! What more could an actor ask
for?
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Many Halloweens ago, fellow
cybergrrrl Cynthia and I dressed as Patsy and Edina. And we were
"Absolutely Fabulous," sweetie-darling! (Also notable is the fact
that we were most likely the first women to dress as Eddie and Pats, that
activity usually being reserved for lower-echelon drag queens.) Cynthia
is wearing a dress that she's had since junior high school.
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No, that's not Xena, Warrior
Princess, it's Andi, Dreaded Succubus in the Charles Busch campy comedy Vampire
Lesbians of Sodom. ;I made the Vampire costume—or should
I say Vampixena costume—from a Victor Costa cocktail dress. The
costume now resides in my closet next to the Callisto outfit (talk about
split personalities!)
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At my first Xena/Herc Convention, I actually won the costume contest as Callisto, Xena's arch-enemy. I met up with Deb, an even more notorious faux heroine, who habitually dresses as Xena. |
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