Rating:
* * *
Type: Slow-mo "living statue"
Time: 20 minutes
Kelly says: Ingenious but makes its point quickly
This show couldn’t be simpler. An attractive young woman, elaborately made up to resemble an ornate Victorian statue stands on a platform along Topiary Trail, the garden that links the Botanical Gardens to Jubilee Junction.
To the accompaniment of saccharine pop music and operatic arias, she goes through a series of slow-motion poses as water spouts from her finger tips and the top of her elaborate hairdo.
I must say, she brings a remarkable degree of romantic intensity to this little exercise, but after five minutes or so you get the idea and the act become repetitious. For me the best part was the end, when a burly workman unplugs the hoses that create the living fountain, assists the performer during her equally slow-motion dismount, and then carts her off to her dressing room on (I’m not making this up) a hand truck.
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