Funny. Sexy. Five Nights Only: The Ruby Besler Cabaret at the Hollywood Fringe Festival Starts June 11 at The Elephant Stage
May 09, 2013
“Funny is the New Sexy” is the theme of this show. Actually, funny has always been sexy and, as if to underscore the point, the eponymous star of The Ruby Besler Cabaret is the perfection in fashion, face and figure of the archetypal 1940s Dame, as seductive with a witty lyric or line of dialogue as she is with her curves.
Ruby is portrayed by the star and principal writer of this show, Anastasia Barnes, who is also a terrific singer. Ms. Barnes originally created the character of Ruby Besler in a popular web series in which Ruby gives advice to women (and occasionally to men) on sex and romance, always followed by an original novelty song with a sound appropriate to the 40s period. The advice is funny and very, very frank, as she advises ladies to keep their “panties on and heels on the ground.”
Ms. Barnes adapts the Ruby character to the cabaret setting. Ruby has gone to secretarial school in Manhattan while pursuing the dream(which she of course achieves) of being a...
