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'Sheerly' An Entertaining
Confection At The Gem
Shear Madness opens to a successful
reception at the Gem.
0
K. First of all, here are of the many jokes that some peo-
the quotes from the ad- ple get and others never see).
Then the action begins. Cus-
vertisements: "Shear
which tomers — Mrs. Schubert, per-
Madness,
opened at the Gem Theatre for fectly and snootily played by
Carolyn Younger, and
its Detroit run, is sheer
Eddie Lawrence (Dana
enjoyment!"
Gamarra), ostensibly a
"Shear Madness is
businessman, but a lit-
`shearly' the most enter-
tle shifty if you ask me
taining confection imag-
— enter to obtain some
inable."
grooming assistance.
"Think of yourself, as
They are each at some
an audience member, as
if you are a mountain DAVID MAGIDSON stage of being cared for
when construction
climber dropped down a
SPECIA L TO THE
worker Nick Rosetti, a
cliff of sheer delight!"
JEWIS H NEWS
real hunk, enters in a
There, that's over.
bit of a rush to the Vil-
Now, what is Shear
Madness at the intimate, beau- lage People singing "YMCA."
tifully restored Gem Theatre re- Rosetti, played by John Lepard,
ally like? It's really like the gets Suda so excited that he al-
quotes. The easiest way to say it most stops talking to work on
is that for what it wants to be, him. Almost.
Shear Madness, which has the
namely an evening that offers
you a bumper crop of laughs distinction of being the longest-
along with a chance to partici- running nonmusical in the his-
pate in a most unusual way in tory of the American theater, has
your own amusement, it's just been able to accomplish this feat
by getting audiences to loyally
about perfect.
From the moment you walk clam up about what happens
into the Gem and see Gary Deck- next, and I'm not going to be the
er's yellow and green beauty shop one who ruins it.
But there are some things you
on the postage-stamp stage — in-
cluding beauticians' certificates can know: there's a murder (for-
on the wall (which will be im- mer concert pianist Isabel Czerny
portant); Redken products on
the shelves; and a campy pink
'50s radio for Tony, the shop's
owner (who also displays his
childhood teddy bear and
tragic and comic masks as a
symbol of his devotion to Roy-
al Oak's Stagecrafters) —
from that moment you are
ready for something interest-
ing to happen.
And nobody lets you down.
Lynnae Lehfeldt
(Barbara DeMarco),
THEATER
fresh from the
Hilberry Theatre,
powers on stage in blue-
striped hair (the natural look)
and an outfit that is high in
all the places outfits are usu-
ally low, and low where they
are usually high. After
matching the day's nail pol-
Shear Madness is playing eight
ish to her shoes, she starts
times a week at the Gem Theatre,
work on customer Charles G.
O'Conner as a perfect, nerdy on Woodward Avenue in Detroit
Mikey Thomas. Well, suffice across from the Fox and State the-
it to say that he gets the hair aters, (313) 963-9800, through
drying of his life while December 31. Unless Detroit is dif-
Lehfeldt and a mincing, in-
spired Tom Suda as Tony ferent from Boston, Philadelphia,
Whitcomb go about the beau- Chicago, Montreal, Barcelona, Tel
ty business. (Actually, it turns Aviv, Budapest, Montevideo, Fort
out that the two of them have Worth and 15 other cities around
something in common: Lat- the world, it'll be here longer, but
er on, in a quiet moment, they go now. That way you'll be able to
both ogle a copy of Flex, the
m(-, ; , muscle magazin Dile go back.