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March 18th, 2008
LA DOLCE MUSTO
March 18th, 2008
LA DOLCE MUSTO
by Michael Musto
I was luminescent all over again on meeting Kerry Butler, a broad who's always seemed loudly underappreciated, though she's given me hope with performances from Hairspray to Little Shop of Horrors. But with Xanadu, the contagious spoof of the craptastic Olivia Newton-John fantasy, she's taken her patented ditzy-blonde-with-sense routine and turned disbelievers into worshippers at her feathered curls. Kerry skates away with the show, laying on an Aussie accent as thick as her comic charm.
Alas, there's a downside to Xanadu's success: It hurts. At the Gotham magazine party she guest-hosted for the revamped Renaissance New York Hotel, Kerry told me: "I go to physical therapy for my knees, I get massages, and I have to go in a roller before each show." I go to physical therapy for my knees too, but that's a whole other story.
There's no preparation Kerry can do for co-star Jackie Hoffman's ad libs, it turns out. "One time," she said, "there was a guy sitting in the onstage audience wearing a cap to the side. Jackie went up to him and said, 'What are you, a gay rapper?' I cracked up! He was most likely gay, because he was sitting onstage at Xanadu!" And it wasn't even "Boys Night."
Courtesy of FGPR
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