Critic's picks - theater Nov 1, 2009
VALET OF THE DOLLS Ryan Landry borrows the basic plot, characters, and themes of Jacqueline Susann s Valley of the Dolls, then pushes them to their illogical - and hilarious - extremes. Through Nov. 22. (Boston Globe)
Arts: the week ahead Oct 29, 2009
THEATER VALET OF THE DOLLS Ryan Landry borrows the basic plot, characters, and themes of Jacqueline Susann s Valley of the Dolls, then pushes them to their illogical - and hilarious - extremes. Through Nov. 22. (Boston Globe)
In Orphans’ ‘Valet of the Dolls,’ Susann’s story goes from trashy to trashier Oct 27, 2009
It s a challenge to parody Jacqueline Susann ... One minute the stage might be alive with the go-go gyrations of The Jacqueline Susann Dancers ; the next might bring a flurry of sight gags (including an allusion to The Exorcist ) or the arrival of foul-mouthed puppets (my favorite was the Paul Lynde sound-alike). (Boston Globe)
Orphans get dolled up for another spoof Oct 23, 2009
It s a takeoff of the 1967 the Valley of the Dolls film starring Barbara Parkins and Sharon Tate and based on Jacqueline Susann s trashy novel. We don t parody anything we don t really love, Landry says, putting Valley of the Dolls on a level with The Wizard of Oz as a gay anthem kind of thing. (Boston Globe)
YESTERYEARS FOR WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2009 Sep 23, 2009
NEW YORK Jacqueline Susann, whose Valley of the Dolls was one of the best-selling novels in publishing history, died Saturday night in Doctors Hospital of the cancer she had been fighting throughout her writing career. She was 53. (Pine Bluff Commercial, AR)
