While YARRRH! will certainly be the most outré pirate show in town, it will not be the only pirate show in town. Last Friday, the humble scribe of the Fringe's Lusty, Busty Pirate Musical put on his Groucho glasses and snuck off to the Riverview Theatre to see Pirates of the Caribbean 4.
We must admit: No towns, pirate ships, or even taverns will be destroyed in the course of YARRRH! For sheer spectacle, we can't compare. Which is as it should be, considering 1) POTC4 spent roughly 100,000 times what YARRRH! did, and 2) you couldn't really fit their sets and costumes into the Gremlin Theatre, let alone set them up and strike them in 10 minutes.
And yet, to this viewer, who wanted nothing more than to be entertained, POTC4 feel short of YARRRH! in some crucial areas. In the first place, while Penelope Cruz (be still, my beating heart!) has the potential to provide plenty of Bustiness, this was a Disney picture, so cleavage was notably tame. As for Lustiness, this picture had perhaps 2-3 minutes of it in a film running well over 2 hours. So we can claim total victory on the Lusty, Busty front!
And about that two-hour plus running time. There isn't that much difference between the basic plot structure of POTC4 and YARRRH! They're searching for the fountain of youth, we're searching for treasure. They have Spaniards, we have a hand puppet. (Actually, we need our hand puppet, and their show would improve without the Spaniards.) But we take care of our plot in 58 minutes and we have five songs!
Some people say, "less is more." Others say, "more is more." But only YARRRH! The Lusty, Busty Pirate Musical dares to give you both less and more. Make your reservation today!
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