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Now here's some Christian rock we can get behind.
Fresh off their popular adaptation of The Oresteia from last year's Fringe, Dizzy Miss Lizzie's Roadside Revue -- fine purveyors of carnivalesque, fire-and-brimstone alt-country Americana -- return with The Saints, a raucous, rangy, mischievous, and ultimately reverent-despite-the-cleavage-and-F-bombs musical biography of a few good Catholic martyrs.
Ringmaster Steve McWilliams might want to work on deepening his pipes to give more oomph to his hyperbolic tent-show preacher schtick, and on the whole, the eight-player troupe's singing maybe isn't quite as strong as their playing and their acting. But why you gotta hate? The spirit is willing, so the vocal cords can catch up. And a show about saints necessarily concerns the spirit above any weaknesses of the flesh.
Of course, we get the flesh, too: As St. Augustine, Debra Buonaccorsi gives a slinky belly dance, and the ladies of the troupe are often costumed with admirable disregard for modesty. But everybody makes an agreeable impression, from Jordan Klein's Jeff Spicoli-ish take on St. Francis to Felicia Curry's Bernadette of Lourdes, who seems understandably discomfitted by her powers of prophecy. Long before it all comes 'round to a harp-blown, barn-burner of a climactic number with lyrics about shrugging off "trivial morality" and whatnot, you'll be more than ready to be saved.
Dizzy Miss Lizzie's Roadside Revue - The Saints (music & lyrics by Steve McWilliams & Debra Buonaccorsi; book by Debra Buonaccorsi; musical direction by Steve McWilliams; directed by Debra Buonaccorsi; approx. 70 min.) is at the Baldacchino Gypsy Tent, 607 New York Ave. NW, tonight at 9 p.m. and Sunday, July 26 at 12:30 p.m. They're also restaging their Oresteia at the Church St. Theater weekends through Aug. 9.
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OK, while I am on a photography tear this morning - I just had to address this one, it's THAT bad.
The fake BLACK vignetting in does not even match the SEPIA photo!
Who did this???!!!