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Linked From Broadway.com at 12:00AMby Richard Ouzounian
NEW YORK It's an X-rated show with a PG heart.
That's Debbie Does Dallas (), the classic 1978 porn film turned into an off-Broadway musical, which opened last night at the Jane Street Theatre. Before you question the plausibility of this, remember that we've already had stage hits called The Vagina Monologues and The Puppetry Of The Penis. Wasn't it time to er put them together? The original movie has gotten such a huge reputation over the years that it has practically become the Citizen Kane of skin flicks.
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Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMIN the 1979 porn flick "Debbie Does Dallas," a bunch of young women do just about anything to raise the bus fare to Dallas to try out for the cheerleading squad.
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 12:00AM'Debbie' sheds its hard-core skin in this goofy musical
Linked From mv.newsday.com at 12:00AMFor the stage adaptation of "Debbie Does Dallas," creator Susan L. Schwartz and director Erica Schmidt have kept the bad dialogue, over-the-top characters and unlikely situations and trans…
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Linked From www.calendarlive.com at 12:00AMCheerleaders Put the Fun in Fund-Raising
By BRUCE WEBER
Parodying a pornographic movie is redundant, but that's about my only complaint regarding the cheerfully raunchy stage version of the 1979 film about cheerleaders in heat.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMVariety Review by CHARLES ISHERWOOD
A lack of pep is definitely not the problem for "Debbie Does Dallas," the Off Broadway musical adapted from the celebrated 1978 porn flick. The talented actresses gleefully bouncing their way through the show, impersonating a pack of innocently lascivious cheerleaders, at times seem positively drunk with it. But no amount of amiable goofing could entirely compensate for the aimlessness of the spoofing, and the general, uh, limpness of the wit on display here.
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMTalkin'Broadway Review by Matthew Murray
Plenty of unique films have been turned into musicals over the last few years. Footloose, Saturday Night Fever, The Producers, and Hairspray, just to name a few that have lit up Broadway with their unique perspective on both theatre and film. However, one title has remained elusive. The bittersweet 1978 coming-of-age story Debbie Does Dallas has finally landed onstage at the Jane Street Theatre.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 12:00AMBroadway.com Review by Adam Feldman
Playing the title role in Debbie Does Dallas, the stage adaptation of the seminal 1978 porn flick, Sherie Rene Scott is less blow-up doll than Barbie doll. A statuesque blonde, Scott has given her wholesome features a plastic sheen; she has the iconic, faintly airbrushed appeal of a Playboy centerfold, with the same mix of lusciousness and naivet. Like many Barbies before her, Debbie has career ambitions that come with a colorful costume--she has been accepted to join the Dallas Cowboy cheerleading squad, the ultimate pin-up platoon. But since her parents deride the Cowgirls as "outdoor burlesque," Debbie is in a pickle. However will she raise the money she needs to make the trip to Dallas and fulfill her dreams? Porno logic dictates the answer.
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:00AMTheaterMania Review by Brooke Pierce
Debbie Does Dallas, now playing at the Jane Street Theater, is the new musical based on the "classic" film of the same name. It comes to Off-Broadway after playing the New York International Fringe Festival in 2001 to sold-out houses -- but that earlier version simply took the script from the movie (which is a porno, by the way), removed the sex, and played it out on stage. Astonishingly, this new and improved Debbie has succeeded in finding the heart in the infamous blue movie about a high school beauty who dreams of becoming a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader and is willing to do whatever -- or whomever -- it takes to fulfill that dream.
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