Cowboys!
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 28, 2000
Closed Oct 21, 2000
Opened Sep 28, 2000
Closed Oct 21, 2000
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
The Wings Theatre Company, Inc. presents the new production of an original musical by Clint Jefferies and Paul L. Johnson. Cowboys! tells the story of a group of cowboys who decide to put on a show to save the Straight Arrow Ranch from a sinister takeover. The result is a raucous send-up of B cowboy movies and formula technicolor musicals of the '40s and '50s with a less than "straight arrow" twist.
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Not five minutes into Cowboys!, the new gay musical comedy at the Wings Theatre, you'll find yourself wishing that someone with a real spiky sense of humor and an inspired performance style--e.g., a Charles Busch--was involved with the show. As it stands, or tries to stand, Cowboys! is, at best, an innocuous piece of fluff that suffers from misguided casting and lamentably pedestrian direction.
A spoof of low-budget western movie musicals of the 1930s and 1940s, but set in a more modern time (already we're in trouble), Cowboys! takes place on and around the ironically named Straight Arrow Ranch. Everyone on the spread is gay except the kindly owner, Aunt Rosie Ritter (Judy Kranz), who has[...]