Unmitigated Truth: Life, a Lavatory, Loves and Ladies
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jun 15, 2009
Closed Jul 28, 2009
Opened Jun 15, 2009
Closed Jul 28, 2009
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Emmy Award Winner and Four-time Tony Award Nominee Melvin Van Peebles performs his newly penned Unmitigated Truth: Life, a Lavatory, Loves and Ladies, at the Algonquin Theater's Parker Theater.
With his characteristic wit and sharp eye, Van Peebles's latest work candidly recounts the memories of a life well lived, ...well almost, through song. The production also features music director and guitarist William "Spaceman" Patterson and vocalist Carmen Barika.
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With a title like Unmitigated Truth: Life, a Lavatory, Loves, and Ladies, you might think that Melvin Van Peebles' new show, currently at the Algonquin Theater, is an autobiographical memoir. The pioneering African-American filmmaker, Emmy Award winner, and Tony Award nominee would surely have a lot of juicy anecdotes to share. And yet, he's taken a different tactic for this performance, which is instead made up of an odd, yet compelling collection of stories and songs. The arrangement of the material sometimes seems completely arbitrary, and the show, performed in a tiny and intimate venue, can have you grinning uncontrollably one moment and scratching your head the next.
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