Shake Shake Shake, Shake Shake Shake, Shake Your Ass, Annoyance Theatre.
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Now, 15 years later, the 70s don’t look so bad. Sure, the clothes were weird and the hairstyles were for shit and Carter was more disappointing than Clinton, but we were all so young and thin and in love. Could it be that it was all so simple then? Fortunately there are sharp-tongued satires like Annoyance Theatre’s Shake Shake Shake to remind us that time has “rewritten every line.” Set in and around a New Jersey disco in the mid-70s, it essentially parodies Saturday Night Fever, with Mike Monterastelli in the John Travolta role, Madeline Long as his frumpy longtime girlfriend, and Nancy Giangrasse as the hot stuff who comes into the club one day looking for a disco partner and steals Danny Sharketti’s heart.
