A success as a drag performer (handsomely costumed by Clint Ramos) known as Virginia Ham, but shy and awkward at matters of the heart, Arnold is desperate for true love and all its trappings - marriage, kids, hot sex - but doesn’t know how to find it. Even more grating is Urie’s strained attempt to imitate the writer’s distinctive voice, which sounds something like a frog being scrambled in an eggbeater.Īrnold’s story is as sweet as ever. It seems strange, for instance, that both playwright and the director should retain certain references that are pure Harvey Fierstein, like the chubby jokes and the broad stage gestures that defined his quirky charm, but hardly apply to the trim new star. At more than an hour less than its original four-hour run time, the trimmed-down show has kept its basic storyline but lost some of its grace notes.
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