It’s the year 2012, supposedly the end of the world. You could go for a little doom and gloom, or for a lot of fun at the Tamarie Cooper’s Doomsday Revue (The Greatest Musical Ever!). Like all good, old-fashioned musicals, the show features a cast of thousands (well, actually 14 people plus a band). And at the center of it all is multitalented dynamo Tamarie Cooper. “I’m the straight man,” Cooper tells us. “I’m a silly straight man, with a lot of other really crazy characters around me.”
The story jumps from one episode to another. “At one point in the show, I re-enact a very pathetic, humiliating night at a party from when I was in high school. When you’re a teenager, every day is like the end of the world.”
The show also features “Barbie Sex Boat!” a song based on End of the World, a game Cooper played as a young girl. (She’d gather up all her toys and decide who was going to survive.) The version in the show has a slight twist. “Our escape ship eventually turns into the Barbie Sex Boat.” Another number is called “We Can’t Wait to Entertain the @!**! Out of You,” which also seems to be the unofficial mantra for Cooper and company. 8 p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Through August 25. DiverseWorks ArtSpace, 1117 East Freeway.
Wednesdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m. Starts: July 13. Continues through Aug. 25, 2012
This article appears in Jun 14-20, 2012.