Dr. Amazing, Your Country Needs You!
Werewolves! PTSD-suffering, compulsively masturbatory Vietnam vets! Cruel and petulant moon Nazis! Sexily bewigged, if slightly self-sabotaging assassins! A glittery, disco-inspired, and not-at-all-gay SuperHitler! The year is 1969. The place? Planet Earth and its one and only natural satellite. These are the key elements of the new sketch show Dr. Amazing, Your Country Needs You!
Dr. Amazing, "America's smartest genius" (not one of those non-smart geniuses), swoops into the middle of this crazy situation to save the day and win the girl (oops...have we said too much?), but not before talking computers jump into the mix, cigarette commercials are ridiculously spoofed, and actors tumble around in what are surely stiflingly hot gorilla suits.
The show keeps up a busy pace of frequent costume and character changes, and makes excellent use of the intimate theater space, with actors popping up behind and in the middle of the audience throughout the piece. It's very clever and quippy and a thoroughly good show, and there's a brief intermission during which audience members can refresh their drinks or, as we did, grab a can of Pringles at the bar.
Dr. Amazing is directed by Sean Cusick and written and performed by Dave Aldridge, Emily Candini, Kyle Dolan, Sarah King, Lauren Lapkus, Conner O'Malley, Andrew Peyton, Adam Rubin, and Sam Weiner.
It has an open run at the Annoyance Theater, 4840 N. Broadway, Sundays at 8 PM.
