![]() “You’ve got to go in and configure your way around this bar. The grouping of three bars is often called “The Triangle” among KU students. I guess they call it the triangle.” įor reference, the Hawk is on Ohio Street, in between two other bars, The Wagon Wheel and Bullwinkles. “It was kind of like on this random street. “All I heard about was this Boom Boom Room,” he said. “I got so many DMs about that place, about the Boom Boom Room and it was honestly hilarious,” Dickinson said. Īn Alum’s Explanation of the Boom Boom RoomĪs a Kansas alum myself, I thought I could shed some light on the mystery that is “The Boom Boom Room.” įor starters, the Boom Boom Room is the lowest level of The Jayhawk Cafe, also known as “The Hawk,” one of the most popular bars in Lawrence. While recapping his visit to Kansas, Dickinson mentioned this mysterious room in a college bar in Lawrence. I don’t know what goes on at the Boom Boom Room, but that’s what we’re up against.” “We also learned yesterday on the podcast that he went to something called the Boom Boom Room,” Franklin said. KSR’s own Drew Franklin addressed that final question on Wednesday’s edition of KSR. “What in the world is the Boom Boom Room?” Tickets are $18 and are available through or by calling 86.Hunter Dickinson’s Barstool Roundball Podcast with Marty Mush and Jordan Bohanan made waves on Wednesday, but perhaps, with no college decision made, it left fans with more questions than answers. Performances are Wednesday through Saturday evenings at 8 PM, with matinees Saturday and Sunday at 2 PM. “In the Boom Boom Room” runs through May 6th at the American Theater of Actors, 314 West 54 Street, on the 4th floor. Under the direction of Greg Cicchino for the Chain Theatre, the cast features Deven Anderson, Kirk Gostkowski, Nina Kassa, Kyle Kirkpatrick, Malikha Mallette, Pete Mattaliano, Christina Elise Perry, Tyler Reed, Cori Stolbun, Alexandra Tabas, Tina Marie Tanzer, and Paul Terkel. Add to that inarticulate direction and sloppy acting and you will get a formula for a theatrical failure and a ruined night. ![]() There needs to be some space to breath, which the Chain Theatre’s production lacks entirely. If you are feeding your audience with heavy sexist, racist and perverted bullshit, you need to have some sort of relief from it, whether it’s in the plot itself or done through stylization. ![]() I am not a prude and understand what a “period piece” is, but even as such, “In the Boom Boom Room” is unbearably vulgar, suffocating and vile. Two and a half hours drag on forever and you feel like you are eating dirt for every minute of it. Unfortunately the play discards them as unsuitable companions for Chrissy. Stolbun is charming as an empowered woman of the 70s. Anderson, even sweating and shaking nervously, gives a sincere performance and looks both funny and vulnerable in a playboy bunny suite (costume design by Barbara Erin Delo). Both the characters and actors portraying them are the only gulps of fresh air in the entire show. Every time another suitor bangs on the flimsy door with a swimsuit hanging from the knob, Kassa clutches her head with her hands in panic, but then lets everybody in anyway and listens to them, jamming her brows together very intensely.Ī confused girl with no boundaries and low self-esteem looks for support and friendship in her downstairs gay neighbor, Guy (Deven Anderson), and a go-go bar MC, Sally (Cori Stolbun). A troubled relationship with her mother (Malikha Mallette), a father (Pete Mattaliano) who most likely molested her as a child, and inability to lock the front door of her apartment, sets up the girl for trouble. The current revival produced by the Chain Theatre is an inadequate crippled mess, stuck in time and the fantasies of one’s sick mind.Ĭhrissy (Nina Kassa) dreams of being a ballet dancer in New York, but for now has to work as a go-go dancer in a bar called the Boom Boom Room. The play about a delusional go-go dance girl from Philadelphia enjoyed a Broadway run in 1973, as well as a Tony nomination for Best Play in 1974. It is pointless and harmful to continue producing “In the Boom Boom Room”, written by David Rabes in 1973. But I hate feeling like I was spit on when coming out of the theater. Here, I said it despite the risk of sounding unprofessional. This is the worst play I have seen in my entire life.
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