Sassy space vixens met Dr. Love in the recent production by MW Reparatory Company. The Really Hip Adventures of Go-Go Girl: Episode 9 Sassy Space Vixens With Attitudes and The Doctor is In where performed for three nights beginning on Thursday, September 28.
A parody of cheap 60's teen and sci-fi theater, Go-Go Girl is humorous in its attempt to be taken seriously. When four beauty pageant finalists are kidnapped to the distant planet, Sniggle 'O Cheese, to be turned into space vixens, it's up to Go-Go Girl/Babs Broadway, played by Dawn M. Varacchi, to save the day. The former Ms. Bikini Beach dawns her silver cape and black Go-Go boots. With the help of her trusty side kick Princess Dancing Squaw (Deb Shea) and her two best friends, happy-go-lucky College Coeds Muffy Midway (Elisa baker) and Skip Steele (Todd Blaine) she is off to stop the evil space vixen's plot.
The newly transformed vixens (Marybeth Miskovic and Dani Labrecque) along with their trusty sidekick Moo Goo Gai Pan (Vickie Wu) crash to earth in their search for mystery formula X. They infiltrate Nancy Sinatra State University, the palace of learning for our heroine and her compatriots.
The plot comes to a climax at the pajama party, when the evil vixens kidnap Muffy and Skip. The trap has been set and Go-Go girl along with her pastry-devouring sidekick arrive on the scene. The climatic battle begins, and High Priestess Marge (Dana Schlosser) arrives on earth with the Hypernova Borealis Stunner Gun. In the final confrontation Go-Go Girl and her sidekick dance the vixens to defeat, and rescue Skip and Muffy from the terrible clutches of the sassy space aliens.
Go-Go Girl is a humorous and enjoyable spoof of 60's television superheroes. The supporting cast adds wonderfully to the script, with the serious MIB styled Narrator, Derek Gelinas, the hip dancing duo, Katie and Laura Horning, and the flashy Emcee, Michael Corbett. This is one play that everyone could enjoy.
Written by Dani Labrecque, an alumnus of WPI, the Doctor Is In looks at a side of love that we often forget about. The twitterpated trio (Katie Archer, Jamie Stern-Gottfried, and Vickie Wu) look to Doctor Love (Randall Wainright) for the answers to their problems. Wainright goes through a series of short monologues on what love truly is, and what it means to so many different people.
An interesting, if not short play with a far deeper meaning than may appear on first glance. A very good attempt to answer the question of what is true love?