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‘Big Bang’ at Horizon
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“The Big Bang. ” Horizon Theatre. Open-ended.
When the actors wear the scenery, who should get the credit for creative costuming? The set designer? Costumer? Stage director? My guess is all three, at least in the bracingly funny production of “The Big Bang” at Horizon Theatre.
Among the foxiest mini-musicals to migrate from off-Broadway in recent years, this fairly outrageous spoof evokes chuckles from its very outrageous premise: Set in the borrowed Manhattan penthouse of proctologist Dr. Sidney Lipbalm, the show is a backers’ audition for an $83.5 million Broadway musical about the history of the world.
Since producers George and Dolph (George Contini and Dolph Amick) cannot afford actors, they personally (and hysterically) work their way through the entire opus, “improvising” the requisite props and costumes from the household surroundings to portray Adam and Eve, Attila the Hun, Socrates, Abraham Lincoln, Queen Nefertiti and Cher— to name a few of the 318 cast members.
Contini and Amick are a delicious duo, the former exploring an especially wide range of queens (his forte) and kings, the latter serving mostly as straight man, although sometimes in women’s garb. Clint Thornton directs with bracing wit; Bryan Mercer provides the music. Dueling set and costume designers are Kelly Allison and Nyrobi Moss.
THE 411: 8 p.m. Wednesdays-Fridays; 8:30 p.m. Saturdays; 3 p.m. Oct. 8; 5 p.m. Sundays. Open run. $20-$30. Horizon Theatre, 1083 Austin Avenue, Atlanta. 404-584-7450; www.horizontheatre.com.
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