Who’s Holiday
Opening Night: November 28, 2017
Closing: January 7, 2018
Theater: Westside Theatre
You saw her last when she was just two Celebrate the holidays with Cindy Lou Who So pull up a seat and fill up your cup ’cause your favorite Who is all grown up. Who’s Holiday is a wildly funny and heartfelt new comedy that tells the story of Cindy Lou Who as she recalls that Christmas Eve she first met the Grinch and the twisted turn of events her life has now taken.
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December 4, 2017
The playwright Matthew Lombardo likes tough-talking, husky-voiced divas who barrel through life and stage in a blur of campy drama. In his Broadway debut, 2010’s “Looped,” Valerie Harper portrayed the grande dame of the stage Tallulah Bankhead. The following year’s pulpy “High”starred Kathleen Turner as a tough-love nun trying to help drug addicts; a scene in which Ms. Turner calmed down a raving man who had stripped naked remains branded in my memory.
Now, Mr. Lombardo has added Cindy Lou to his gallery. Cindy Lou who? Well, Cindy Lou Who. Last seen as a onesie-wearing 2-year-old in Dr. Seuss’ “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!,” our heroine (Lesli Margherita) is all grown up and ready to puff on a bong in the R-rated Off Broadway solo comedy “Who’s Holiday!”
The little tyke has become a bottle-blonde adult — Ms. Margherita’s wig, by Charles G. Lapointe, is a roots-showing relative of whatever lived on Elizabeth Berkley’s head in “Showgirls” — who spends her days in a trailer appointed with Airstream functionality and seasonal kitsch by the set designer David Gallo.
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