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Article: Bertha's in the House! But Jane Eyre Fails to Ignite.(Arts&Entertainment)(Review)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- January 15, 2001
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Byline: John Heilpern
One of my Christmas prezzies was the immensely enjoyable video of Waiting for Guffman, which sends up theater as This Is Spinal Tap satirized rock 'n' roll. Christopher Guest (of Spinal Tap ) plays a campy choreographer, Corky St. Clair, who's hoping to get back to New York and into the big time of Broadway via an amateur musical entitled Red, White and Blaine. Performed by the stage-struck locals of Blaine, Corky's show celebrates the 150th anniversary of the little town, and in the end everything goes disastrously, touchingly wrong.
"Let us rest awhile by this campfire here," the narrator of Red, White and Blaine says, staggering ...
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