Lusia Strus' One Woman show in LA
Lusia Strus' One Woman show in LA
#0Lusia Strus' One Woman show in LA
Posted: 10/31/06 at 9:27am
I hope my friends in LA can catch my friend Lusia's show. This woman is brilliant on stage..and I'm not just saying that because we're friends. Anyone who has had the prividge of seeing her on stage will vouch for me. I'm sure most of you have seen her as Alexa in the Adam Sadler film "50 First Dates" where she plays his Russian assistant...this show will also prove to many of you that she is NOT a man as most thought she was in the movie. Tee Hee.
I promise you that you will be very glad you caught this show. I'm only sorry I have to miss it.
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#1re: Lusia Strus' One Woman show in LA
Posted: 10/31/06 at 9:29amTell her to bring it to NY!
I hung out with Cheyenne Jackson in his dressing room waayyyyyy before he tickled D2. "unleash the girly"
Our fingerprints don't fade from the lives we touch.
Puppies are babies in fur coats.
Tinfoil...The Terrorizing Terminator
#2re: Lusia Strus' One Woman show in LA
Posted: 10/31/06 at 9:31am
Girly...I'm keeping my fingers crossed that she does. If I had the money I'd produce it here for her. 
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#3re: Lusia Strus' One Woman show in LA
Posted: 10/31/06 at 9:43am
Thanks boobs.
I will try to catch this.
#4re: Lusia Strus' One Woman show in LA
Posted: 10/31/06 at 9:45amTell her Boobs sent you!
I hung out with Cheyenne Jackson in his dressing room waayyyyyy before he tickled D2. "unleash the girly"
Our fingerprints don't fade from the lives we touch.
Puppies are babies in fur coats.
Tinfoil...The Terrorizing Terminator
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#5re: Lusia Strus' One Woman show in LA
Posted: 10/31/06 at 9:47am
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.
PEACE.
#6re: Lusia Strus' One Woman show in LA
Posted: 10/31/06 at 9:58am
Sueleen..hopefully she'll bring it back to Chicago and hopefully here too. I will keep you posted. Maybe if it comes to NYC you'll have to plan a trip in. 
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#7re: Lusia Strus' One Woman show in LA
Posted: 10/31/06 at 10:55am
for those of you who may want to purchase tickets....
http://www.plays411.com/newsite/show/play_info.asp?show_id=744
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#8re: Lusia Strus' One Woman show in LA
Posted: 10/31/06 at 11:01am
AHHHHHH!!!!
Boobs, why are we only finding out about this NOW?!?!
I better have a Wednesday available coming up . . .
#9re: Lusia Strus' One Woman show in LA
Posted: 10/31/06 at 11:13am
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. 
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#10re: Lusia Strus' One Woman show in LA
Posted: 10/31/06 at 11:21am
As soon as I get home I'm checking the calendar and trying for tix. The TinMan had a first read-through last night, and I haven't seen the rehearsal schedule yet.
You know if I can, I'll be there. I need to hear that sexy voice again!
#11re: Lusia Strus' One Woman show in LA
Posted: 10/31/06 at 11:39am
DG - love the Avatar.
What a handsome devil!
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#12re: Lusia Strus' One Woman show in LA
Posted: 10/31/06 at 11:44am
The horns do seem to be a little too natural, don't they?
And you should DEFINITELY try to see Lusia's show!
#13re: Lusia Strus' One Woman show in LA
Posted: 10/31/06 at 4:53pm
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.
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#14re: Lusia Strus' One Woman show in LA
Posted: 11/1/06 at 2:06pmJust wanted to tell my friend to "break a leg" tonight on her LA opening. I will be there in spirit..I know she's gonna take LA by storm...no doubt in my mind.
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
bongoboy
Broadway Star Joined: 5/12/03
#16re: Lusia Strus' One Woman show in LA
Posted: 11/2/06 at 9:20amToo early to call her. I wonder if anyone from here went and can give us an update. ANYONE????
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
bongoboy
Broadway Star Joined: 5/12/03
#171st Review
Posted: 11/2/06 at 7:43pm
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
#181st Review
Posted: 11/7/06 at 8:22pm
Another glorious review for Lusia....
it ain't no fairy tale
KCLA - fm internet radio
I felt like quoting an Elton John song while watching Lusia Strus and saying "Yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen."
She is such a beautiful, vivid storyteller and you feel like she's your best friend confiding in you. Lusia is a cross between Kate Capshaw and Michelle Pfiffer, lovely to look at, soft, strong, and sometimes with a lion's roar when she's angry every once in a while. As a member of the audience you feel privileged and comfortable to be in her star quality presence. She's very easy to listen to and concentrate on.
Lusia makes you feel the pain of marriage, being separated as a family and then illnesses that make her mother a servant to her dying father. Then when she marries she repeats the cycle having to serve her alcohlic husband.
This show is entertaining and real and you feel like you're giving and receiving therapy to get yourself well. It is well worth seeing.
-- by Laurie Senit
KCLAfm internet radio
American Radio Network "Love Time"
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#191st Review
Posted: 11/17/06 at 7:58am
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)
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#201st Review
Posted: 11/17/06 at 9:47amOh how wonderful! She is such a talented and HILARIOUS actress. Glad to see her so well-received. Please give her my congrats!
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#211st Review
Posted: 11/17/06 at 9:52amJust to add the voice of a regular theater-goer (as opposed to the pros,) I completely agree with everything said in the reviews.
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#231st Review
Posted: 11/17/06 at 10:56am
She needs to bring it to NYC first.
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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