Buzzworks Theater Company, at Zebra Crossing Theatre
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Flanagan’s One-Woman Sound of Music romps through the entire sappy saga of your journey as free-spirited Maria, from cloistered nun to guitar-toting governess to doting stepmother of the eerily wholesome Von Trapp clan. She tells us everything we always thought but didn’t really want to know about the cast of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. If your husband, whoopee cushion director Blake Edwards, had directed the original Sound of Music, it might have looked like this. Captain Von Trapp is a beer-swilling lech, the eldest Von Trapp daughter is a horny tramp who wants to get down “Nazi boy Rolf’s” pants, Kurt Von Trapp is a lisping artiste who wants to be a graphic designer, and the inhabitants of your cloister would probably feel more at home in some steamier setting. “I wonder what the girls are doing back at the abbey?” Maria muses. “It’s probably shower time.”
