Wuthering Heights rummage sale

Yesterday we read about Gucci's Heathcliff and we were quite shocked. But if you really want to dress like Heathcliff, or Cathy...or even Hareton or Joseph, you may have a more accessible chance next Saturday (January, 21) if you live near Seattle.

We read on Seattlepi.com:

Need 150 well-used, burgundy cloth theater seats? No? How about insanely romantic costumes that ape the styles of 1800s England, from the Empty Space Theatre's "Wuthering Heights"? (...) Now's the time to stock up.

Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., is Empty Space's moving out rummage sale, at 3509 Fremont Ave. N., free admission and everything priced to go.

The refered production is Wuthering! Heights! The musical ! premiered in the 1998/1999 season at the Empty Space Theatre , written by Eddie Levi Lee and with music by Edd Key. A review of the production can be read here.

Since its premiere last year at the Space, Eddie Levi Lee's tale about an amateur production in a small Southern town has, I'm told, been reworked and rewritten to take off some of the rough edges. But it's hard for me to tell what the changes have been, because whatever edges have been worked off have been replaced by new ones. This remains a rag-tag piece of silliness that succeeds by cheerfully flaunting the absurdity of its concept. So we still have Edd Key's ridiculous songs, which include a pastiche of Wagner, a parody of Andrew Lloyd Webber, and even the traditional white gospel known as shape-note.

Categories: Alert, Theatre, Wuthering_Heights