Merman gets mean.LOOKING FOR this summer's Mean Girls? Sharpen your claws on the San Francisco stage production of Hush Up, Sweet Charlotte, an adaptation of the Bette Davis cult classic Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte. It's got madness, murder, dismemberment dismemberment /dis·mem·ber·ment/ (dis-mem´ber-ment) amputation of a limb or a portion of it. dismemberment amputation of a limb or a portion of it. , and drag icon Varla Jean Merman Varla Jean Merman is a character originated and portrayed by Jeffery Roberson, an American actor, singer and drag performer. Varla's fictitious pedigree boasts that Ernest Borgnine is her father and Ethel Merman is her mother. gone mean. "She's evil, evil, evil!" notes a laughing Jeffery Roberson, the man behind Merman mer·man n. A legendary sea creature having the head and upper body of a man and the tail of a fish. [mer(maid) + man.] Noun 1. . Varla takes the film's sinister Olivia de Havilland Olivia Mary de Havilland (born July 1, 1916) is a two-time Academy Award winning actress and is the last surviving principal cast member from Gone with the Wind. She is the sister of Academy Award winning actress Joan Fontaine. role. "[Varla] is generally very sweet," says Roberson, "and you're not accustomed to seeing Olivia that way. It's creepy." Charlotte runs at the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre from June 1 to August 31, but Varta will leave the show after June 26. |
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