Equally ruthless is her sendup of overachieving New York women in feral pursuit of have-it-all motherhood without having first ascertained if they even like children.
Nichols began his sendup of Tennessee Williams — a high-pitched, hard-drinking Southern playwright called Alabama Glass — with the playwright explaining his newest work to the audience.
With the Brooklyn ensemble Les Sans Culottes, whose raunchy faux-French rock is both a sendup of and a tribute to late-period Serge Gainsbourg and punchy yé-yé girl pop.
A campy sendup of nun movies, the show is at SoHo Playhouse through January 2nd.
The original version of the work included an extended sendup of an American Jewish home, a scene subsequently cut.
But at its best the play is a hilarious sendup of idiotic architect-speak, and a reminder of the gap between the public's demand that buildings be ever more exciting and entertaining, and their need to fulfill certain practical functions.
At this point, the musical's sendup of the bow-wow populism of our seventh President has taken on a new relevance, if not gravity.
He turns the hearty barroom sendup "Thataway!" into something altogether more suggestive, and when Hyde Pierce finds himself being taught a time step by Niki (Jill Paice), his favorite chorine, he goes into a Ginger Rogers–Fred Astaire fantasy.
With Les Sans Culottes, who are also from Brooklyn, and who started out by playing raunchy faux-French rock that was both a sendup of and a tribute to late-period Serge Gainsbourg and punchy yé-yé-girl pop.
Of the three, Murphy is the best known, having created the just ended FX psychomelodrama "Nip/Tuck" (for which Falchuk was a writer and a producer) and the 1999 WB comedy "Popular," which was also a sendup of teen-age archetypes — as in "Glee," there was a star football player who was torn between sports and the stage — but involved much more extracurricular activity among parents and families.
This delightfully acerbic sendup of the college admissions process is set in a tony suburb of Washington, D.C.
