On Thursday night at the Warehouse Mainstage, I caught the first CapFringe performance of "7 1/2 Habits of Highly Effective Mistresses". As you might guess, it's pretty funny. It's a two-woman show in the form of a self-improvement seminar with songs and musical accompaniment.
The show was created by its star, Lisa Faith Phillips, who plays Dr. Faith. The music was composed by Ellen Mandel, who, as Mistress Ethel, accompanies Dr. Faith on piano & backing vocals.
The show gets in quite a few good jokes, and the cabaret-style music is great. Dr. Faith encourages lots of audience participation--and if you don't join in, you may suffer the wrath of Mistress Ethel's riding crop. They did manage to get the whole audience to sing "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend." (See habit #2.)
Dr. Faith keeps promising that the best audience member will be named "America's Top Mistress", and sure enough she picked a woman from the audience at the end of the show, bringing her on stage to recieve a prize. Everyone seemed to enjoy the show.
There are more performances scheduled at the Warehouse for Saturday the 26th and Sunday the 27th, both at 2:30 p.m.
To see more photos of this show, click here.
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