Merman gets mean.LOOKING FOR this summer's Mean Girls? Sharpen your claws CLAWS - Cats Lives Are Worth Saving CLAWS - Class Assessment on the Web System CLAWS - Coherent Launchsite Wind Sounder CLAWS - Complementary Low-Altitude Weapons System (USMC) CLAWS - Comprehensive Logistics and Warfighting System CLAWS - Constituent Likelihood Automatic Word-Tagging System CLAWS - Container Launched Attack Weapon System CLAWS - Cordless Land-Air Wildlife System (Avian Systems) 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., and drag icon Varla Jean Merman gone mean. "She's evil, evil, evil!" notes a laughing Jeffery Roberson, the man behind Merman. Varla takes the film's sinister Olivia de Havilland 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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