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<\/a>Fernandes (Photo by Daren Scott)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
To assist in enumerating the goddesses and telling their wacky tales (based on the work of comics queen Trina Robbins), Velasco, who co-conceived the musical with Steve Gunderson, enlists \u201cThree Sisters,\u201d sung (music by San Diego jazz artist\/composer Candye Kane) and outrageously acted by Devlin, Melissa Fernandes and Rae K. Hendersen.<\/p>\n
The men they castrate, strip, beat up and dismember are portrayed by hunky Erik Dugan (Adonis), who makes his first San Diego stage appearance here, and the gifted Michael Parrott (Guy). When all these forces sing in harmony (arrangements by Gunderson), it is a wondrous sound. With the exception of Dugan, who displays luscious physical beauty and rudimentary acting skill, all contribute comic chops as well, and Fernandes in particular shows a range of talents that wow even those familiar with her work. We already knew Devlin is capable of evoking tears and laughter. Hendersen\u2019s vocal skills are impressive, too, but she seems most of the time to be at a remove from the material and the audience.<\/p>\n Though the dizzying procession of goddesses and situations, performed at high dudgeon, eventually exhausted this onlooker and though the music lacks variety (slightly exacerbated by Gunderson), one is consistently amused by Velasco\u2019s choreography and stage movement and Kate Bishop\u2019s deft and colorful costumes, which morph instantaneously with the addition of a scarf or a shirt. Kristen Flores creates the non-committal scenic design; Jason Bieber, the lighting; and Matt Lescault-Wood, the excellent sound design. It\u2019s not easy to effectively mike singers in so small a house.<\/p>\n Among my favorite numbers were Lilith\u2019s \u201cWho\u2019s on Top?\u201d Jezebel\u2019s \u201cEternally Bad,\u201d Pele\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Mess With Fire,\u201d and Grizzly Woman\u2019s \u201cPeople Who Eat People.\u201d Parrott lends much hilarity as Ra, the\u00a0Egyptian sun god, and as a sumo wrestler.<\/p>\n Among the other goddesses are Amaterasu, Louhi, Kilinoe, Jezebel, Madari, Kali, Erishkigal, Artemis, Kannaki, Inanna, Uzume, Circe, Isis and Osmotar. And those are just the goddesses.<\/p>\n Kudos to Moxie for taking a chance on new work, something it has done throughout its 10-year existence. Creative types both young and seasoned and male and female, deserve a platform for their work concerning women. In addition to individual producers, \u201cEternally Bad\u201d is also supported by the San Diego Foundation, Creative Catalyst Program.<\/p>\n \u2014Charlene Baldridge ha estado escribiendo sobre las artes desde 1979. Puedes seguir su blog en charlenebaldridge.com<\/a> o llegar a ella en charb81@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Charlene Baldridge How many goddesses stretch from ancient Rome, Greece and Egypt to Adam\u2019s first wife, Lilith, to Hilary Clinton? Creator\/director Javier Velasco and projection designer David Scott set out to show you quite a few in the Moxie Theatre production of \u201cEternally Bad,\u201d a world premiere musical playing through Aug. 2 at the […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":731,"featured_media":248902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"O woman, what a work of art thou are","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11549,11547,11551,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-features","category-news","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/731"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Erik](\"https:\/\/sduptownnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ED_RH_04web.jpg\")
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<\/a>In an interesting sidebar provided by one of the Moxies, I\u2019m told that Velasco first met Kane when he called her to ask permission to use one of her songs in a dance version of \u201cEternally Bad,\u201d which he did with San Diego Ballet. With Kane he then created a musical based on her life story, titled \u201cThe Toughest Girl Alive,\u201d which became a workshop at Moxie several years ago. Kane\u2019s only connection to Velasco\u2019s \u201cEternally Bad\u201d is that she wrote the music.<\/p>\n