Hot Buffet

Co-sponsored by the Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change

This forthcoming new musical parody by Big Moves is inspired in part by Cabaret, the Handmaiden’s Tale, and… cookbooks?

After studying culinary art for five years in France, Andrea returns to a United States she barely recognizes. Weight control is practically a religion, sexuality is stuffed tightly away, and the state has no qualms about interfering in either. Andrea’s friend Chrissy has a unique role in this brave new world: she’s dancer and professional eater at Hot Buffet, one of the few establishments in the city where patrons can indulge just about any carnal appetite, or at least vicariously enjoy those appetites indulged in front of them. Andrea gets work in the kitchen, and Chrissy is making money hand over slightly greasy fist. But it’s a flimsy refuge at best, and as society’s distain for the pleasures of the flesh boils over into outright prosecution, the tattered velvet ropes at the Hot Buffet may not be enough to keep the mobs at bay!

The reading will be lightly rehearsed, and discussion with the director follows (there will also be feedback forms). The world premiere of Hot Buffet is scheduled for October of 2008, but if you want to see what Big Moves does BEHIND the scenes, this is your chance to peek in at the ground floor. Oh, and of COURSE there will be snacks.

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