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The Transpiring

Musicals & Operas · Ginger Fail Productions · Ages 14+ · United States of America

World Premiere
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Review by STEVE BIODROWSKI

June 29, 2024 hollywood gothique original article
tagged as: transgender · hip hop · musical · adoption · orphans · vampires

What I liked

Easter egg jokes for fans of vampire fiction ("Wrenfield Adoption Agency, renting an apartment from "Carmilla).

What I didn't like

Defeat of the antagonist was too easy.

Final revelation about our protagonist undermines much of what we know about her. Presumably we are supposed to accept this as part of the show’s comedy, but it makes her previous behavior somewhat inexplicable.

My overall impression

The show gets a fair amount of comic mileage out of a deliberately overbaked premise. It’s not enough that the orphan reunited with her birth family has to explain that she is now a trans-woman; she’s also a vampire! Which will her family have a harder time accepting?

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