After a Midsummer Shiver, Provincetown Proceeds With Care
The New York Times
When the Delta variant came to town, the Broadway stars, drag queens and comics were performing indoors again and the iffy summer of 2020 was just a memory.
PROVINCETOWN, Mass. — Varla Jean Merman made her entrance at the top of the show dressed as a syringe of vaccine. Shimmery and skirted, the costume was perfectly matched to her solo show’s double-entendre title, “Little Prick,” and its opening number, a comic ode to vaccination sung to the tune of the Kool & the Gang song “Celebration.” The hypodermic headpiece was tricked out to squirt liquid, of course. “Honey, did I get any on you?” a faux-solicitous Varla asked a man in the front row one evening in late July. “Well, don’t worry. It’s just bleach.”
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