'Sex Drugs Rock & Roll' 2009/01/30

'Sex Drugs Rock & Roll'

Friday, January 30, 2009; Posted: 07:01 AM - by Beau Higgins

(Photo By Steve Shires)

Sex Drugs Rock & Roll
by Eric Bogosian

SOL THEATRE February 13-March 7

Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm

Starring: Jeff Holmes, Todd Bruno, & Jim Gibbons
Directed by: Robert Hooker

Tickets are $20 with reservation, $30 at door

"Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll" is an accomplished evening of theatre consisting of ten vividly diverse character monologues filled with wit and eye-opening perceptions.

Though the characters don't share scenes, they do share a coherent civilization where homelessness, guilt and an addictive desire to feel 'wonderful' (a state attained with drugs, power, money or sex) are ubiquitous. Beware - they may shake your cages. Like the paranoia in a Hitchcock movie, it's a little too close for comfort - no one is allowed a safe distance.

The canvas is far broader than the title suggests. 'Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll' as a whole forces the audience to examine its own roles in the larger drama that, however unwillingly, it shares daily with the dispossessed, arguing finally that the homeless are threatening not just because they evoke suffering and guilt, but also because they represent revolt and freedom. They are the people who have been 'thrown out of their cages,' because they refused to do 'what they're supposed to do.'

SOL THEATRE 1140 N FLAGLER DRIVE, FORT LAUDERDALE

BOX OFFICE 954-801-9207 www.soltheatre.com

Performance run time: 90 minutes. No intermission.

FYI - Coarse, Vulgar, and Crude language are used - intended for mature audiences only.

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Currently spending his time between New York and Florida, Beau was born to a theatrical family in Brooklyn. He studied drama at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute and at HB Studios. He studied theater singing with Julia Sperratore and Helen Gallagher. Beau later taught drama at the Lincoln Center Square for the Arts. It was at this time Beau began working with the Theater Development Fund and helped found New York's famed HALF PRICE TICKET BOOTH. Early in his career, Beau was screen tested and contracted for Warner Brothers. He co-hosted, an early cable variety series on Manhattan's Teleprompter channel. At this time he directed the Johnny Specca musical, SEX IS..? at the Lincoln Center Library Theater. Beau has performed Off-Broadway in FAT FELL DOWN, The Comic Strip Theater's LITTLE LULU AND THE INVISIBLE INK and WILL THE REAL ZOOPERMAN PLEASE STAND UP. Around the country he has delighted audiences with his performances in ANYTHING GOES, THE APPLE TREE, GUYS & DOLLS, and HELLZAPOPPIN! He sang for New York audiences at such cabarets as The Duplex and Upstairs at the Downstairs. He has had numerous television appearances but is most proud to have been a winning contestant on the game shows JACKPOT and THE $20,000 PYRAMID.

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