Marilyn Pittman's It's All the Rage: Darkly Funny Story of Family Tragedy
The Marsh San Francisco Mainstage Theater (1062 Valencia St. San Francisco, CA 94110)
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14 Goldstar Member Reviews
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Excellent balance of humor, wit, emotions, and seriousness. This takes you on quite a journey that shifts back and forth between parents and wife, hell and happiness. I would love to see other shows by Marilyn and I wish this had been longer. I cannot imagine performing this often. I bet she is exhausted after every show. The way her eyes change and convey such contrasting emotions and feelings is quite remarkable. She draws you in. You will laugh, you will think, and you will look at people differently after. I truly appreciate any performance that can accomplish such a feat.Written on Jun 15 2010
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She's great but she makes herself so ugly that it was a turn off to a guy like me.Written on Dec 06 2010
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Sandy
Marilyn Pittman's piece is hilariously funny and tender as she explores the ways the murder-suicide of her parents -- the culmination of a lifetime of a relationship flawed in particular ways -- shaped who she is. Marilyn's honesty about her own anger and her sometime disappearances from her own relationships make this a story that the audience can connect with, even if the particulars are different. I loved the story of her father driving the whole family up a dangerously narrowing mountain road with no barriers, with distinct characterizations of how each family member reacted. Brilliant piece!Written on Jun 11 2010
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More Information About Marilyn Pittman's It's All the Rage
Website
http://www.themarsh.org/Marilyn_Pittman.html
Quotes & Highlights
- "Fabulous! A great piece of theater!” --KQED
- Hear Pittman talk about the show on KALW's Crosscurrents.
- The show was originally produced as part of the Marsh's Festival of New Voices.
Description
The Marsh is proud to present Marilyn Pittman's It's All the Rage. Pittman developed It's All the Rage as one of six artists invited to join The Marsh's second Performance Initiative in 2009. She performed the show to sold-out houses and standing ovations as part of the Festival of New Voices II in June of this year.
In 1997, Pittman’s identity as a stand-up comic, UC Berkeley educator and NPR talent consultant was shattered by the sudden murder-suicide of her parents. The Pittmans were a normal mid-western family. Dad was a World War II hero, Mom was a poet and editor of her college yearbook and they had been married for almost fifty years before their shocking deaths. It was a family of big personalities doing daring things and laughing a lot, from penny carnivals in the backyard to wild rides on mountain passes. As her mom would say, “We had a lot of fun!” And they did. Hard as it was to reconcile this tragedy with her family memories, Pittman, a well-known Bay Area comic, has a knack for mining humor out of dark truths. The show, at once murder mystery and survival tale, is both uproariously funny and heartbreakingly sad.
Pittman emerged from the San Francisco gay comedy scene during the AIDS era. She made her name at Josie's Cabaret in San Francisco's Castro district, performing countless headliner sets as well as her two solo shows 'Thank You For Sharing' and 'But Enough About You.' LGBT audiences from Provincetown to Anchorage rolled in the aisles at her wild and funny takes on right wing fundamentalists, personal ads, gay sex, lesbian relationships (including her own) and an assortment of annoying self-help books. She is a G.L.A.A.D. Media Award winner from that time for her work as an 'out' comic.