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Luanne Buckstein and Pamela Clifton fill a gap in women's theater

Comments (0) By Amber Taufen Thursday, Feb 5 2009

Menopause the Musical and Hats! are for women at the end of their childbearing years; and Girls Only — The Secret Comedy of Women celebrates a female’s childhood and teenage years. But what about everyone who falls between the onset of menarche and menopause?

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“We were right in between maturity and death," says Luanne Buckstein, who, along with partner-in-crime Pamela Clifton, created That Woman Show to fill this missing link in women's theater. "It's just something different, and maybe a little more bawdy," explains Buckstein. "It's touted as a ‘broad show,’ ’cause we consider ourselves broads. So we do a Weight Watchers sketch and we do Shelly of Galilee, which is a take on finding an old diary in Sanskrit of a woman who has a thing for someone who lived back then. We do some musical stuff, and we do an improvisation where we take an old black-and-white clip and we do our old dialogue.

"Men are allowed," she adds. "As we say, it's funny enough for a man, but made for a woman."

Catch That Woman Show, part of the annual Girls Night Out Comedy Series, at the Avenue Theater, 417 East 17th Avenue; the show opens tonight and continues at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and at 2 p.m. Sundays through March 15. Tickets are $10 to $22; call 303-321-5925 or visit www.avenuetheater.com for information.
Thursdays-Saturdays, 7:30 p.m.; Mon., Feb. 23, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., March 15, 2 p.m.; Sun., March 29, 2 p.m.; Sun., April 5, 2 p.m. Starts: Feb. 6. Continues through April 11, 2009