Lusia Strus' One Woman show in LA

Tell her to bring it to NY!

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Thanks boobs.

I will try to catch this.

Anyone who has had the prividge of seeing her on stage will vouch for me.

Yep, I certainly will! I am sorry I missed this when it was in Chicago.

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for those of you who may want to purchase tickets....

http://www.plays411.com/newsite/show/play_info.asp?show_id=744

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Sorry DG....I only found out myself this morning...I was out last night when she called. Seems she's been busy writing and re-writing...you know she strives for perfection in all she does. I know she would be thrilled if you were there for a performance. Her sister that you met asked me if you guys could make it..I told her that I already sent you the link and was sure you would if you could.

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DG - love the Avatar.

What a handsome devil!

DG..maybe you can make it a little LA BWW outing...maybe we can even get Lusia to do a talk back thingy after the show.

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i wonder how it went? hmmm.

1st review below

THE TICKET STUB!

it ain't no fairy tale

Lusia Strus is a pragmatic romantic whose past alliance was based on their being "good to each other, nice to each other - we had a deal." Surprised that even she bought into the nuptial traditions, with husky-voiced delivery and a droll, staccato punch Strus peels back the layers of connubiality until it is raw. She spritzes humor all over the illusions of her huge collection of Wedding magazines.

Her frankness was nurtured in a Ukranian Village nestled in Chicago and honed by a father who didn't buy flowers but always brought home meat. Strus also offers an homage to a hard working mother whose monosyllabic words of wisdom bespoke unadorned truth.

"it ain't no fairy tale" is a parable where you get to laugh at the ogres of pretense.

Tracy Gore! - THE TICKET STUB

Lusia is the LA Pick of the Week. I'm so proud of her !!!


IT AIN’T NO FAIRY TALE Just when you feel you’d rather throw yourself out a 10th-floor window than sit through another autobiographical one-woman show about the performer’s professional and romantic travails, along comes Lusia Strus, reinvigorating the meaning of “character” in the term character actress. Strus was a years-long smoker and drinker, which has set her vocal range somewhere near baritone. This, combined with her ferocious sarcasm and pinpoint timing, sets the otherwise bare stage for the interweaving story of two marriages: that of her parents — Polish Ukrainian immigrants to Chicago — and that of her own. Each is a product of its location in time and culture, of its own particular addictions, and each functions and/or collapses on its own terms. Her stories are world-weary and world-wise sojourns through love and death, bitingly smart and peppered with Strus’ fitful zeal for life. “Soooo tired,” is a recurring motif in the mouths of many of Strus’ characters, refugees from Urkranian shtetls and Las Vegas diners. “First, I lost hope. Then I lost faith,” she says, describing her breaking heart. Bitter without being embittered, funny without being glib, sweet without being maudlin, Strus’ performance captures a heart smothered in the dried glue of having been repaired so often, yet still beating with compassion. ELEPHANT ASYLUM THEATRE, 6322 Santa Monica Blvd., Hlywd.; Wed., 8 p.m.; thru Nov. 29. (323) 960-4424.

--(Steven Leigh Morris)

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Just to add the voice of a regular theater-goer (as opposed to the pros,) I completely agree with everything said in the reviews.

She needs to bring it to NYC first.

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