Off Broadway's 20 at 20

A pretty friggin sweet promotion if you ask me.
I wasn't going to pay full or even half price to go see Toxic Avenger, but I'll go for $20 bucks, and now I can also finally justify seeing Fuerza Bruta.

www.20at20.com/

Toxic Avenger isn't worth even $2.

The thing with Toxic Avenger is that the humor isn't for everyone. Gross out and a little raunchy. It's not poorly written or poorly performed. Nancy Opel is fabulous as three different characters in the show and much kudos to the actors who play White Dude and Black Dude. Playing close to 100 different characters and having them all be truly different is a bear of a task. Not to mention the quick changes they need to pull off.

I laughed at some of the jokes but just rolled my eyes at others. I think the best way to describe the type of humor is "thirteen year old boy". Gross outs, sex jokes, etc. This isn't the type of show you take your mom to.

Is it Pulitzer Prize winning material? No. Is it goofy fun for 90 minutes. Absolutely.

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The Toxic Avenger is not for everyone, but the cast is definitely worth seeing. It's still getting good reviews. Here's a recent one from this week from Theatermania.

Theatermania review

Updated On: 9/9/09 at 06:38 PM

I enjoyed Toxic Avenger a lot...I didn't pay to see it but I wouldn't have been upset if I had paid $20. It's raunchy, gross-out humor and it's definitely not for everyone but it's worth it just to see Nancy Opel being fantastic.

Other than that, I'd recommend The Marvelous Wonderettes and The Fantasticks if you haven't seen it already.

Altar Boyz for anyone who hasn't seen it

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