Kung Fu Panties

[GeneChing]

This article desperately needs a better pic :rolleyes:

GZT and Hit & Myth Present KUNG FU PANTIES, 3/18-4/3 (http://toronto.broadwayworld.com/article/GZT_and_Hit_Myth_Present_KUNG_FU_PANTIES_31843_201 10126)
Wednesday, January 26, 2011; Posted: 07:01 PM - by BWW News Desk

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Ground Zero Theatre (GZT) and Hit & Myth (H&M) present Rebecca Northan's Kung Fu Panties at The Studio at Vertigo Theatre Centre (115-9th Avenue SE, Base of the Calgary Tower), March 18-April 3. Advance tickets for Kung Fu Panties are on sale now, available through the Vertigo Theatre Centre Box Office at 403-221-3708 or online at gzt.ca

The Sisterhood is an elite, underground vigilante group that pursues criminal masterminds who evade capture by international agencies. Where Interpol fails, the Sisterhood steps in - and they look **** HOT doing it! When arms dealer Alberto Flores resurfaces two years after the only failed assassination attempt in Sisterhood history, the girls spring into action, eager to finish the job they started. What unfolds is a high octane, high-heeled chase around the Globe, as these feisty ladies will stop at nothing to see justice served.

Kung Fu Panties brings the all-girl action movie genre to the stage. Live fights, live car chases, live girls, and comedy that kicks you in the face and takes names later. Kung Fu Panties will make you wish you were BAD because the punishment is so GOOD.

"Back at the 2010 Ten Minute Play Festival (High Performance Rodeo), Rebecca Northan wanted to lead the Ground Zero Team and I said by all means, "commented GZT's Ryan Luhning," I mean come on, Rebecca Northan! She ended up creating a hilarious 10-minute skit about three girls trying to prevent the assassination of a diplomat, armed only with charm and lingerie. Needless to say, audience response was high. I had many audience members come up to me saying I'd be crazy not to turn this into a full length play. Well, in fact, I told Rebecca that same evening that is exactly what we were gonna do! Low and behold... here come's Kung Fu Panties.""This is an amazing project for GZT/H&M because it is the beginning of a brand new phase of creation for us. We are once again digging deep and exploring territories our companies have never seen," says H&M's Joel Cochrane. "We are going to attempt to put an action movie on stage, including car chases, gun fights, hand-to-hand combat and weapon fights. This process is going to be a gruelling one for our cracker-jack team of professionals! The script has over 8 full fight sequences! There is gonna be a lot of sweat and blood flying around that rehearsal hall... and we can't wait!"Kung Fu Panties stars director and playwright Rebecca Northan, Julie Orton, and Chantal Perron and features Christian Goutsis, Bruce Horak, Ryan Luhning and Nathan Pronyshyn. The cast is joined by co-director & choreographer Mark Bellamy, fight director Adrian Young, set & lighting designer Leo Wieser, costume designer Raven Hehr, composer Stan Janz, sound effect supervisor Jamie Northan, stage manager Michael Howard, and assistant stage manager Natalie Watson.Kung Fu Panties plays Tuesday through Saturday evenings at 8:00pm; and Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:30pm, March 26, 27, April 2 and 3. Tickets are $30 for adults, $18 for students/seniors, and $15 for Live Rush tickets (one hour prior to curtain, based on availability - register and details at liverushcalgary.ca). Pay what you can preview performances run March 18, 19 & 22 at 8:00pm. Advance tickets are on sale now, available at the Vertigo Theatre Centre Box Office at 403-221-3708 or online at gzt.ca.

[GeneChing]

Finally got a better pic than above (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1074957#post1074957)...

Monday, March 21, 2011
Entertainment Columnists / Louis B Hobson
Kung Fu Panties kicks butt in heels and minis
By LOUIS B. HOBSON, Calgary Sun
Last Updated: March 18, 2011 3:11pm

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It's not every day someone asks Julie Orton to kick butt in a mini skirt and heels but it was an offer she couldn't refuse.

Orton, Rebecca Northan and Chantal Perron are the three dangerous daring dames in Kung Fu Panties, Ground Zero and Hit & Myth's outlandish story of a trio of crime fighting beauties.

"It's a send up of female action movies like Charlie's Angels and especially a 2006 Australian movie called DOA: Dead or Alive which was absurd, sexy and hilarious. Best of all, it didn't take itself seriously which is what we're doing with Kung Fu Panties," says Orton.

She adds that "Kill Bill and Matrix were also strong influences for the show. It was very important to all of us that this would be a slapstick comedy but that it would have some impressive action sequences.

"Adrian Young who was the fight director for ATP's Shakespeare's Dog has choreographed all our fight sequences. He's made them intense, ultra physical but also a great deal of fun for us and for the audience."

And yes, Orton promises that Kung Fu Panties will be as titillating as the costumes suggest

Kung Fu Panties was conceived as a spoof for the 10 Minute Play Festival which allowed Orton, Northan and Perron to be "kick butt spies who looked really cool doing it. Ryan Luhning saw the skit and immediately came back to our dressing room and commissioned Rebecca to create a full-length play based on the concept for Ground Zero and Hit & Myth."

The girls were so grateful to Luhning for his faith in them they wrote the role of the romantic lead in Kung Fu Panties for him.

"Like the three of us girls, Ryan immediately hit the gym and has been working out ever since."

Luhning helps the sexy spies battle master villain Christian Goutsis and baddies Bruce Horak and Nathan Pronyshyn and no shortage of ninjas.

Orton says that "from the start producers Ryan and Joel (Cochrane) and Rebecca wanted this show to appeal to people who don't generally go to theatre because they think it isn't accessible. We hope to change that notion.

"We want to show them just how much fun live theatre can be because essentially Kung Fu Panties is the kind of show you'd see in a movie theatre."

Orton hopes that Kung Fu Panties will "travel beyond Calgary. It's the kind of show that could have real mass appeal. It will be exciting for Calgarians to see the birth of a new Canadian play."

Kung Fu Panties, under the direction of Mark Bellamy, runs at the Vertigo Second Stage until April 3. Tickets are on sale at 403-221-3708.

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[GeneChing]

No more pics tho... :(

Kung Fu fighting leaves mark on actors (http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Kung+fighting+leaves+mark+actors/4488240/story.html)
Live action play a challenge
By Bob Clark, Calgary Herald March 23, 2011

Ground Zero Theatre and Hit & Myth present Kung Fu Panties through April 3 at Vertigo Studio. Tickets: Call 403-221-3708.

Putting a martial arts action movie onstage is tough business, and Rebecca Northan has the bruises up and down her arms to prove it.

"I think they're mostly self-inflicted," says Northan over coffee during a break in rehearsals for Kung Fu Panties.

The show, about a trio of pistol-packin,' high-heeled, top-secret feminist vigilantes out to, um, settle an old score, opens today at Vertigo Studio.

"There's a move in one of the fights where we try to do a rolling dogpile and I think I'm putting my arm down too hard . . ."

Written and directed by Northan, who also stars in the stage flick alongside her good friends Julie Orton and Chantal Perron, Kung Fu Panties came out of a Ground Zero Theatre 10-Minute Play Festival piece Northan -best known for her appealing hit improv show, Blind Date -created for herself and her two pals early last year.

"It actually didn't have anything to do with Charlie's Angels," Northan says, in response to an obvious question alluding to the popular late-1970s TV series and the later hit movie based on it. "And I don't think I would've written it if (Ground Zero artistic director) Ryan Luhning hadn't said he wanted to commission a full-length (play) from it."

For Northan, bringing Tinseltown gangsta glam and fantasy to the stage has had its share of ups and downs.

As in the aforementioned rough stuff, for example.

"None of us are fighters," Northan says. "But (it's been) condensing years of kung fu training into four weeks of rehearsal, we would do four hours of fighting every morning . . . has been a huge challenge."

Not to mention the task of putting a car chase onstage, too.

"A lot of the special effects we've come to accept in movies, we've tried to find theatrical ways to give you the same effect," says Northan. "Which is a ton of imagination and play, on our part."

Accordingly, don't look for video enhancement -let alone the merest whiff of any of the Broadway Spiderman's costly tricks -to bring Kung Fu Panties to life.

Au contraire, "It's completely 'unplugged,' " Northan says.

"Analog, basically. We have people fly through the air in our show -but ninjas lift them.

"So the actors and the sets all become kind of large puppet pieces at various points."

Sounds kind of comic book-y?

"It's absolutely comic book-y," says Northan, laughing. "Deliciously over the top. The best children's theatre you'll ever see with guns and swear words."

Not only that, she adds, "(Kung Fu Panties) is definitely one of the biggest, craziest projects I've ever undertaken."

Which is saying a lot, given that Northan, a Toronto-based former Calgarian (alumna of both Loose Moose and the University of Calgary drama department) has seen her crazy ad-lib "interview" show, Blind Date, grow steadily bigger in demand since its debut two or three years ago.

A very successful New York run of Blind Date last fall will likely be repeated there in the near future, following imminent runs at Edmonton's Citadel Theatre and the Manitoba Theatre Centre.

No surprise then, that -true to Northan form -the ever-evolving Kung Fu Panties script gets room to manoeuvre, too.

"There's one scene in particular that ends up having improvisation in it every night," Northan says, pointing out that the cast is fine with being given "a little bit of creative freedom."

As for the playwright/actor/director herself -"The hybrid between scripted and improvised really excites me," Northan says.

"My experience is that audiences really respond to that -because they feel a part of it."

[GeneChing]

It's an irresistible title. Sucker Punch (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=57945) should have been titled Kung Fu Panties.


Kung Fu Panties sexy and daringly satirical (http://www.calgarysun.com/entertainment/columnists/louis_hobson/2011/03/25/17752566.html)
By LOUIS B. HOBSON, Calgary Sun
Last Updated: March 25, 2011 10:04am

Consistently funny and occasionally hysterical, Rebecca Northan's Kung Fu Panties is a wickedly inventive spoof of everything from James Bond spy thrillers to female exploitation films.

Northan not only conceived and wrote Kung Fu Panties but co-directed it with Mark Bellamy and stars as sexy super spy Darlington.

Darlington and her partner Malta (Chantal Perron) are seasoned members of a rogue assassin group called The Sisterhood. Think a more lethal and more dominatrix version of Charlies Angels .

Darlington and Malta are assigned to assassinate Flores (Christian Goutsis) an evil, slimy Latin American gang lord with a major speech impediment.

Things go very wrong before they finally go right for Darlington and Malta especially when they are partnered with the eager, befuddled novice spy Goodbody (Julie Orton). Orton is delightfully goofy like vintage Goldie Hawn.

Raven Hehr's costumes make sure there is plenty of female flesh on view and Northan even incorporates the obligatory scene where the women must strip down to bras and panties before squeezing into their form hugging leather fighting suits.

What makes Kung Fu Panties so much fun is that Northan has done her homework.

Her villain Roman (Nathan Pronyshyn) is a homage to the Bond villains. He's in a wheelchair and carries a dead fox fur in his lap.

At one point, Darlington must shimmy under and over lasers much as Catherine Zeta Jones did in Entrapment. How this is accomplished is masterful tomfoolery as are the motorcycle chases and the aerial fung fu fights.

When Kung Fu Panties is clever, it's very clever but when it is silly or juvenile it inspires groans which may have been Northan and Bellamy's intention.

Northan's Darlington is the British spy torn between duty and her love for the FBI agent Brickman (Ryan Luhning). Their dance of erotic reconciliation screams at what this show could and should be. It's really a campy musical waiting for the songs and score. If the characters sang while they were fighting or squabbling it would take the show to a whole new level.

There's a male striptease number that has to be seen to be believed.

All of the performances are extravagant and unrestrained and it takes seasoned, confident actors to carry them off with this kind of aplomb.

Perron's foul-mouthed tigress Malta is really a kitten at heart and Luhning's Brickman is all macho posturing.

At times it's a contest as to who is having more fun with Flores, Goutsis who plays him or the audience howling at his insane antics.

Bruce Horak is also unabashedly slapstick as the Mexican bartender Flores while Dustin MacDougall and Joe Perry are tireless as a variety of thugs.

Northan says her mission was to create a show that would lure non theatre goers into the theatre.

Mission accomplished.

It's also fun for seasoned theatre buffs because it is so extravagantly theatrical.

It may be mindless escapism but it took genius on both sides of the footlights to create it.

KUNG FU PANTIES
Vertigo Studio Theatre until April 3
THREE AND A HALF STARS

[GeneChing]

No new pix tho - this article has a stock getty pic which isn't from the show, but it didn't seem worth reposting here.

There's power (http://www.calgaryherald.com/There+power/4501925/story.html)
It's a word that make s many women cringe, but could kung fu panties, re becca northan's kick-ass new play, be a sign that feminists are ready to reclaim their unmentionables?
By Shelley Youngblut, Calgary Herald March 25, 2011

While on her lunch break from rehearsal in aQuonset hut in the Manchester Industrial area, Rebecca Northan is ogling underwear on her MacBook. Specifically,Stella McCartney's days of the week panties, which are available at neimanmarcus.com and come packaged in atiny pastel dresser with eight movable drawers (the extra one is for the tantalizingly named "Bits and Bobs"). "Check this out," she says to her brother Jamie, who is responsible for the sound effects in Kung Fu Panties, which Rebecca describes as "the most fun you'll ever have in the theatre." "Youcould keep your vitamins with your panties," she says. "And your birth control pills," quips Jamie, who, along with the rest of the large cast and crew, islearning to go with the flow of his sister's irreverent new play. So how ishehandling all the panty talk? "I'm getting used to it, which iskind of weird."

We are all going to have to get used to hearing "panties" thrown about in everyday conversation now that Kung Fu Panties will be entertaining audiences until April 3 courtesy of Ground Zero and Hit &Myth. The 130 patrons who fill The Studio at Vertigo Theatre Centre are being treated to a kick-butt action thriller that combines the best of Charlie's Angels, Kill Bill, The Matrix and an obscure Australian action film called DOA: Dead or Alive with a special sauce whose flavour is "pure Northan."

What they will not be watching is an ode to Kung Fu Panda,the animated 2008 DreamWorks kiddie film in which the character voiced by Jack Black, simply by believing in himself, transforms from a bungling bear into the Dragon Warrior. Northan's PG13rated spectacle isn't about the power of the panda; it's about the power of the panties as worn by a trio of special agents played by Northan, Julie Orton and Chantal Perron. As Northan's character, the very British Darlington (imagine James Bond's Miss Moneypenny as a lethal fembot), says in what its writer calls the panty scene, "My panties make me feel like I can kick ass."

Imagine, panties as a feminist statement. And yet, many women don't just dislike the word, they recoil from it, which is sad when you think that it's reserved for female undies. (Guys wear briefs or boxers or the have-it-both-ways boxer-briefs; only male cross-dressers wear panties.) In fact, our discomfort with the word was the source for yet another classic Seinfeld moment. Jerry is encouraged by his girlfriend to talk dirty to her and comes up with the memorable line: "You mean the panties your mother laid out for you?" Later in the diner, he tells George that she fled in disgust. "Well, that'snot offensive,"George says. "It's abnormal, but it's not offensive."

This strong aversion to panties surprises Northan, who has fond memories of panty parties from her youth that she says must have been a subliminal influence on her new play. In fact, childhood may be the last time girls have a completely positive relationship with their undies, whether they're decorated with cute animals, flowers or "Saturday."Leaving diapers and pull-ups behind for big-kid briefs is a sign of independence for Little Becky,who is downright proud of her panties. It's not until adolescence, with its painful preoccupation with how other people see us, that girls become self-conscious about their curves and the view from the rear. To combat the dreaded visible panty line, teens put their faith in the thong, which provides so little coverage you'd have to abbreviate the names of the days of the week to be able to sell them in packages of seven. As women mature, they turn to Spanx, which are more sausage casings than undergarments and will make you long for the days when you wore your pastel panties without a care in the world.

One of the best lines in Kung Fu Panties sums up Northan's take on the connection between post-feminism and underwear: "A woman in the wrong pair of panties doesn't know who she is." Fortunately for Calgary audiences, Northan knows exactly who she is. Because we had to ask, the right pair of panties for this triple threat actor-writerdirector would be the tanga, one of nine official panty styles according to Wikipedia (see below). The tanga is more substantive than a thong, with coverage where you need it-there's something ridiculous about exposed cheeks (see Howard Stern's Buttman if you require proof)-and alluring narrow strips across the hips. Tangas a replayful and confident, slightly exotic amidst the gaunch of the Prairies yet grounded in practicality. They're definitely not your granny's panties.

Nor is Northan your granny's idea of an artist, although we guarantee even the most straitlaced among us will leave Kung Fu Panties with a smile on her face. After devoting four years to performing her one-woman show Blind Date, in which she improvised the arc of a relationship with an audience member and spent the second act clad only in a corset, garters and stockings, the Calgary native has learned a thing or two about captivating an audience. She's also become somewhat of an expert in lingerie, on and off the stage. When she flew home in December after a triumphant stint peforming Blind Date in New York City, Northan was most concerned about the airline losing her luggage, which was stuffed with $3,000 worth of expensive underpinnings. "It's been years since I spent $30 on a bra," says Northan, who dismisses La Senza's wares as "tit tinsel." Ahardto-fit 32E, she'll gladly spend $300 on a bra, which can quickly add up to some nightmarish moments at a slow baggage carousel. She washes her unmentionables by hand with a special, no-rinse soap called Soak that she picks up at Secrets from Your Sister in Toronto. "Women wear their bras an average of 200 times," she says. "I want to wear mine more than that, so I take really good care of them."

Northan wasn't always someone who took her underwear seriously. Once upon a time, she was a kooky kid with an identity crisis and atop drawer jammed with sports bras and panties that came in packs of six for$8. The turning point came when she was at theatre school. A male friend named Shaker playfully poked her in the chest and said, "Is that a Christmas log in your shirt where your boobs are supposed to be?" Then a female friend named Kate staged a panty intervention. "She had such great panties and I knew I had to upgrade mine," Northan says. "I realized I had to stop buying my panties at Costco and would have to get a starter thong." She's now addicted to matching bra-and-panty sets by Freya, as well as corsets made by theatrical costume designers, and can be found roaming lingerie stores when she's on the road. "I call them 'intimate stationery stores,'" she says. "It's so hard to go in and not come out with something."

Northan has been investment-dressing underneath her clothes for years, which is why it's sad that none of her bras fit right now. Given the physical demands of Kung Fu Panties (the cast spent their morning rehearsals choreographing fight scenes,surrounded by missile launchers and martial arts weapons), the three female leads had to get into the best shape of their lives.Like many in the local theatre community, they devoted themselves to the P90X Extreme Home Workout System, which promises that if you give it a month and a half, you'll get "absolutely ripped." However, what Northan gained in core strength, she lost in cup size. "I can't wait until Kung Fu Panties is over so that I can gain 10 pounds and get back in my bras."

That said, you should see her from the waist down in a tanga. But it will cost you at least the price of a ticket to her show.

it's a knicker-ticker IF YOU WERE A P A I R OF PANTIES, WHICH STYLE WOULD YOU BE? PS: CONTROL BRIEFS ARE GRANNY PANTIES

[GeneChing]

I've culled this from our MAiLT (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=49689) thread.

Kung Fu Panties back in fighting form (http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/Kung+Panties+back+fighting+form+Fresh+faced+cast+g ets/7939907/story.html)
Fresh-faced cast gets physical as bad-ass martial arts comedy returns
By Stephen Hunt, Calgary Herald February 8, 2013

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Photo courtesy Kung Fu Panties Jade Benoit, Rebecca Northan, Chantelle Han and Sarah Koury are part of the remount of Northan’s’ popular Kung Fu Panties at Loose Moose.

They might look like fight scenes to you and me, but to Adrian Young, they’re a kind of dialogue, spoken in the language of stage combat.

Young’s the fight co-ordinator of Kung Fu Panties, the Tarantino-esque chick flick martial arts comedy that’s making a return visit to Calgary.

Young teamed up with the show’s creator, Rebecca (Blind Date) Northan, to help train a new cast of fresh-faced cast members (ages 17 to 29) who have replaced the original cast.

Kung Fu Panties isn’t exactly dialogue-driven, but if you count the show’s multiple fight scenes as language, it’s positively Shakespearean.

“I’m not here to choreograph fights,” says Young. “I’m here to write you dialogue — it’s physical dialogue.”

It’s physical dialogue that is a blend of martial arts manoeuvres (kung fu, karate, jujitsu, aikido, katana), and military tactical gun work, all of it set against a backdrop of comic book style villainy, in a show that was so popular during its initial 2011 run that the posters got stolen off light poles and scalpers sold marked-up tickets on Kijiji.

There have always been action movies. Kung Fu Panties is an action play.

“They (the fight scenes) are well-involved, elaborate and span the entirety of the show,” says Young. “We tell the story through the fights.”

For Northan, who has spent large chunks of the past two years touring Blind Date around Canada and the U.S., the 2013 edition of Kung Fu Panties is the next step in what she hopes will be the show’s ultimate evolution.

“The long version of the story is the guy who produces Blind Date out of New York, Kevin McCullum (who also produced Avenue Q and others), I sent him the script and he said, I love it. Can you make it a musical?

“And I was like, ‘Oh my, God,’” adds Northan, “I guess so.

“Then,” she says, continuing, “I started thinking about it and I thought, I am so intimidated by that idea right now.”

Wanting to revise the script, Northan returned from her Blind Date tour to her Loose Moose roots, enlisting a group of young emerging actors she worked with this summer at Shakespeare in the Park as well as some Loose Moose improvisers, to workshop the script.

There were a couple of catches: one, Northan had to finance the thing herself, using her Blind Date earnings.

Two was those Tarantino-sized fight scenes.

“The one thing I knew from having done it with Ground Zero (and Hit & Myth) before,” she says, “is that the fights take a really long time (to choreograph).

“So I went to Adrian, our fight director and said, ‘Look, I’m thinking of self-producing the show ... but we don’t have (any) budget.’”

Young agreed to an unconventional six-month rehearsal period, where the cast would meet most Saturdays at his dojo (martial arts studio) to learn the extensive fight choreography required to perform Kung Fu Panties.

Additionally, whenever she was in town, Northan would conduct improv workshops with the cast, which led to her re-styling the script to fit the new cast, which includes such Loose Moose mainstays as Andrew Phung, who plays arch-villain Alberto Flores.

“He’s totally hilarious,” says Northan, who is also directing this edition, “So I just said in places, ‘Why don’t you improvise a bit? Let’s see what comes out.’

“He’s a great improviser, so (some) great stuff came out,” she adds. “I just said keep that. I like it. It’s more comfortable for you, it fits more in your rhythm — (and) I’m not super precious about lines.”

For the cast, many of them students or recent grads from theatre programs at Mount Royal University, the University of Calgary and the University of Lethbridge, Kung Fu Panties represents a rare opportunity to learn by doing, from one of the city’s most successful artists.

“I’m learning just how hard it is,” says Jamie Matchullis, who plays Goodbody, “to do all the fights and do all the acting on top of that.

“I’m really appreciating the investment that Rebecca and Adrian have put into every single one of us — the fight workshops for four months ahead of this, and Rebecca, she’s interested in our input into the show, and constantly pushing us and challenging us to go the extra mile — whatever our (theatrical) background ... we’re all being pushed out of our comfort zone and I think it’s great.”

And that doesn’t simply stop at the parts they’re getting the opportunity to play. The cast of Kung Fu Panties also get a first-hand tutorial in life in the theatre for another dynamic Calgary woman.

Along with two other Calgary dynamos, Onalea Gilbertson (Blanche: The Bittersweet Life of a Wild Prairie Dame) and Melanie Jones (Endure!), Northan has created and performed shows that they have had produced across the continent, including off-Broadway in New York.

That might be the best developmental workshop those young actors can get.

Quite a contrast from a Canadian theatre culture that — by economic necessity — tends to spend as much time working on the next grant application as it does on the next script.

“I don’t want to wait (for a grant),” Northan says. “I don’t want to have to ask permission (from anybody to produce my work).

“If you’re passionate about it, and think you’ve got a good idea, then scrape a hundred bucks together and beg, borrow and steal — and get it going.

“Because,” she adds, “if you’re not willing to commit to your ideas, then why should anybody else?”

PREVIEW: Kung Fu Panties

at Loose Moose through March 9

Tickets & Info: loosemoose.com or 403-265-5682

shunt@calgaryherald.com

[GeneChing]

I'm really only posting this for the pic, which like the pix for the previous runs will probably fade off the web after the show closes. But really, do I need a reason to ttt a thread about Kung Fu Panties?

4 things to do in Calgary this weekend (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2013/02/08/calgary-things-to-do-entertainment-eyeopener-chris-dela-torre.html)
CBC News
Posted: Feb 8, 2013 5:15 PM MT
Last Updated: Feb 8, 2013 6:32 PM MT

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Chris dela Torre's arts and entertainment picks6:48

Looking for something to do? This weekend, the CBC’s Chris dela Torre's picks include bands, bygone eras and a kung fu sequel.

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Kung Fu Panties Redux is a slightly reimagined version of Rebecca Northan's play that debuted two years ago.Kung Fu Panties Redux is a slightly reimagined version of Rebecca Northan's play that debuted two years ago. (Courtesy Kung Fu Panties Redux)

Kung Fu Panties Redux

Two years ago, Calgary-born actor/writer/director Rebecca Northan had a big hit on her hands with Kung Fu Panties. It's sort of an action movie spoof for theatre. Sales were good, reviews were good, but the posters were so good that people kept stealing them off of public walls.

Northan is back to re-stage Kung Fu Panties, but she's doing it in a way that's similar to how she re-staged her other hit play, Blind Date. Instead of starring in her own show again, she's tightened up the show a bit and handed off the leads to some up-and-coming actors.

Runs until March 9

Loose Moose Theatre

BTW, they have a facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/KFPRedux).
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