The Opposite of Sex
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SHOW INFORMATION
CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Aug 9, 2006
Closed Aug 20, 2006
Opened Aug 9, 2006
Closed Aug 20, 2006
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
The Opposite of Sex, a wickedly funny new musical based on the cult-favorite film of the same name, features music and lyrics by Douglas J. Cohen, book by Cohen and Robert Jess Roth and is directed by Roth.
Based on the screenplay by Don Roos, the musical follows the misadventures of Dedee Truit, a 16-year-old girl, who upon the death of her stepfather, runs away from home and settles in with her gay stepbrother, Bill. She quickly grows bored in the small Midwestern town, wreaks havoc on Bill and his best friend Lucia, seduces his boyfriend Matt, and takes off with him. With Bill and Lucia giving chase, Dedee trash-talks, seduces and blackmails her way from Lousiana to LA and back, leaving behind a trail of comic catastrophes.
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
'62 Center for Theatre and Dance
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The '62 Center for Theatre and Dance is a 106,000-square-foot complex featuring a prominent lobby on Main Street in Williamstown -- a dramatic glass cube with a strong overhanging roof and dense wood shutters -- that greets visitors with warm materia [...] Read More
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The '62 Center for Theatre and Dance is a 106,000-square-foot complex featuring a prominent lobby on Main Street in Williamstown -- a dramatic glass cube with a strong overhanging roof and dense wood shutters -- that greets visitors with warm materia [...] Read More
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There's exactly one false moment -- more of a micro-moment, really -- in the brilliant new musical version of Don Roos' 1998 movie, The Opposite of Sex, and it occurs at the very outset of the Williamstown Theatre Festival's staging. For a second or so, as the seven-member ensemble gathers for an opening song, the beaming Kerry Butler appears to promise a Gidgety perkiness - more Penny Pingleton (the role she originated in Hairspray) than Dedee Truitt, that cynical 16-year-old who's a one-girl circus of psychosexual machination.
But even that seeming slip is intentional. Instantly disabusing the audience of any visions of sappy afterschool-special apercus ("After that summer, I was never t[...]