In a small backspace, almost like a storage room behind Rust
Belt Books, with no more than 30 seats, the actors start with the scene called
“Angry Disney Bitches.”
“Hi, my name is Ursula and I’m an angry bitch,” said Mike Beiter who played The Ringmaster and the only male in the cast.
“Hi Ursula!” said the other cast members (Jenny Gembka, Kelly M. Beuth, Theresa DiMuro-Wilber, Brittany Kucala, Diane McNamara and Kerry Alsheimer) in unison.
The scene was set up as an AA meeting with Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty, Ursula from Ariel, The Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland, Cruella De Vil from 101 Dalmatians, Lady Tremaine from Cinderella and The Queen from Snow White.
The "angry bitches" gave their story, the wicked thing they did and how their wicked plan was stopped.
The scene ends by the “angry bitches” kicking out Cruella De Vil because they are part of PETA and they did not approve of her trying to make coats out of the dogs.
The scene was a great opener because as a child, when when we think of wickedness, we think of Disney characters. This played on our childish side by giving us all characters of famous Disney movies for little girls.
“Way Wicked Women” was a play with different scenes all ranging from the purely wicked to revolutionary women some people would like to call wicked.
“The fact that everyone in the cast wrote their pieces, I think that just adds so much strength to it, you know, it all comes from the heart.” Said Mike Beiter, a worker at HSBC.
He said this show is inspirational because it gives different perspectives of wickedness and empowered women.
Lara Haberberger, an auditor and the artistic director of “Way Wicked Women” decided to do the play behind Rust Belt Books because it is inexpensive.
She chose Buffalo not only for our rich culture and artistic towns such as Allentown, but also because it is an inexpensive place to throw a great show.
“Performance spaces are very expensive,” said Haberberger.
“It’s nice to do something here in the middle of Allentown, where it’s happening and we are able to keep the tickets reasonably priced.”
The tickets were only $12, compared to two or three times the amount you would pay at Shea’s.
The play did not have the same characters through each scene. Each scene portrayed different woman who would be qualified as “wicked” according to some societies.
“ My favorite scene was the holocaust one with The Snake Charmer because it reminded us that not all powerful women in history had a positive influence in society,” said Lisa Stanback, a cashier at Home Depot.
Stanback said she thought the play was funny but the underlining message is what stood out to her the most.
In the holocaust scene Stanback spoke of, The Snake Charmer was a Nazi who had a Jewish person hostage. She was yelling profanity and derogatory things at her hostage (The Ring Leader) that showed that she had power over her hostage.
It was showing not only the negative and evil things that women in power can do to people weaker than themselves but that the play was not just to show women in power who did great things.
The actors did a very powerful scene about abortion and a funny scene about pageant moms.
In the scene of abortion all the women huddled together and talked to the audience in poem style about abortion.
They told us why people get an abortion: incest, rape, too young, sickness and they say that even though people call abortion wicked, they know it was the best decision for themselves and their child.
The pageant mom scene was about moms who were complaining about their daughters not winning in the pageant they just participated in.
During the scene, they women were acting as if the prizes were for their daughters but the underline connotation was saying the moms are making their daughters do this just for the money or because they did not have the chance to do it.
" Next time I'm going to win that money... I MEAN WE!" Said The Fortuneteller (Brittany Kucala).
Two different examples of wickedness but none-the-less, they are wicked according to our society.
In one scene, The Snake Charmer (played by Kelly M. Beuth) and The Lion Tamer (played by Jenny Gembka) were chefs who specialized in cooking humans.
Towards the end of the scene, the chefs get a guest named Lorena [Bobbitt]; she specialized in making “cocktails.”
Although this play is over now, they will be having more plays in the upcoming months.
They put on a great show that gave empowerment to women with a beautiful mixer of funny, serious and tear jerking scenes that would make you think twice about what wickedness truly means.
“Hi, my name is Ursula and I’m an angry bitch,” said Mike Beiter who played The Ringmaster and the only male in the cast.
“Hi Ursula!” said the other cast members (Jenny Gembka, Kelly M. Beuth, Theresa DiMuro-Wilber, Brittany Kucala, Diane McNamara and Kerry Alsheimer) in unison.
The scene was set up as an AA meeting with Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty, Ursula from Ariel, The Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland, Cruella De Vil from 101 Dalmatians, Lady Tremaine from Cinderella and The Queen from Snow White.
The "angry bitches" gave their story, the wicked thing they did and how their wicked plan was stopped.
The scene ends by the “angry bitches” kicking out Cruella De Vil because they are part of PETA and they did not approve of her trying to make coats out of the dogs.
The scene was a great opener because as a child, when when we think of wickedness, we think of Disney characters. This played on our childish side by giving us all characters of famous Disney movies for little girls.
“Way Wicked Women” was a play with different scenes all ranging from the purely wicked to revolutionary women some people would like to call wicked.
“The fact that everyone in the cast wrote their pieces, I think that just adds so much strength to it, you know, it all comes from the heart.” Said Mike Beiter, a worker at HSBC.
He said this show is inspirational because it gives different perspectives of wickedness and empowered women.
Lara Haberberger, an auditor and the artistic director of “Way Wicked Women” decided to do the play behind Rust Belt Books because it is inexpensive.
She chose Buffalo not only for our rich culture and artistic towns such as Allentown, but also because it is an inexpensive place to throw a great show.
“Performance spaces are very expensive,” said Haberberger.
“It’s nice to do something here in the middle of Allentown, where it’s happening and we are able to keep the tickets reasonably priced.”
The tickets were only $12, compared to two or three times the amount you would pay at Shea’s.
The play did not have the same characters through each scene. Each scene portrayed different woman who would be qualified as “wicked” according to some societies.
“ My favorite scene was the holocaust one with The Snake Charmer because it reminded us that not all powerful women in history had a positive influence in society,” said Lisa Stanback, a cashier at Home Depot.
Stanback said she thought the play was funny but the underlining message is what stood out to her the most.
In the holocaust scene Stanback spoke of, The Snake Charmer was a Nazi who had a Jewish person hostage. She was yelling profanity and derogatory things at her hostage (The Ring Leader) that showed that she had power over her hostage.
It was showing not only the negative and evil things that women in power can do to people weaker than themselves but that the play was not just to show women in power who did great things.
The actors did a very powerful scene about abortion and a funny scene about pageant moms.
In the scene of abortion all the women huddled together and talked to the audience in poem style about abortion.
They told us why people get an abortion: incest, rape, too young, sickness and they say that even though people call abortion wicked, they know it was the best decision for themselves and their child.
The pageant mom scene was about moms who were complaining about their daughters not winning in the pageant they just participated in.
During the scene, they women were acting as if the prizes were for their daughters but the underline connotation was saying the moms are making their daughters do this just for the money or because they did not have the chance to do it.
" Next time I'm going to win that money... I MEAN WE!" Said The Fortuneteller (Brittany Kucala).
Two different examples of wickedness but none-the-less, they are wicked according to our society.
In one scene, The Snake Charmer (played by Kelly M. Beuth) and The Lion Tamer (played by Jenny Gembka) were chefs who specialized in cooking humans.
Towards the end of the scene, the chefs get a guest named Lorena [Bobbitt]; she specialized in making “cocktails.”
Although this play is over now, they will be having more plays in the upcoming months.
They put on a great show that gave empowerment to women with a beautiful mixer of funny, serious and tear jerking scenes that would make you think twice about what wickedness truly means.
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