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Photo by Don Kellogg

Saturday, December 22, 2007

Pied a Terre

Welcome to the next installment of a Lifetime Television Movie off- Broadway! In two acts we manage to fade in and out of two times in the melodrama of Julia, Jack, and Katie's lives.

Here goes the summary. Act I: Daddy (50 years old) picks up teenage hooker and keeps her at his NYC Peid-a-Terre. Teenage hooker falls in love with him because he is taking care of her. Daddy doesn't touch her (something must be up). Mommy shows up and is greeted by girl and pretends to be daddy's brother to find out why she's there. Blah... Blah.... Blah... Act II. We come to learn Daddy is dead. Mommy and Daddy both are carriers of a gene for Cystic Fibrosis and had a daughter who died of it. (could daddy be re-creating the daughter he never had?). Think so? Well, flash to last scene - where mommy tells daddy that she really did have another daughter with daddy when they were dating but gave her up for adoption. Daddy wants to find her. Mommy doesn't. In a final scene of rapid flashbacks and time shifts- we learn that Daddy actually did find said daughter (Ala the teen hooker he picked up not to screw but to surprise mommy with after a few months of "polishing her up) but Mommy showed up and figures it out herself but it's too late - Daddy is dead. Oh brother!

So goes another episode of "The Stomach Turns". Seriously - pretty decent acting - and i swear with a drink in her hand, Sue Ellen Ewing could have played the role. Check out the melodrama at the Kirk Theater on 42nd Street.