BROAD
Written and Performed
by Sarah Rudinoff
Directed by Kevin Kent
1997-1990
Embodying the free-wheeling, piano barfly Virginia Tumble, Rudinoff takes us to the character’s last night at her favorite spot, “The Oar House”, where she doles out unsolicited advice about men, men, men. “You can’t pretend to be picky. Picky is not honest, and it’s not attractive!”
Virginia welcomes the audience to her home away from home. But this is a home with sticky floors, unconscious strangers, and all the salty snacks your little heart desires.
The show played at Re-bar and Bumbershoot (Seattle), The Adelaide Festival (Australia), The HBO Workspace and Les Deux Café (LA) 1997-1999
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Reviews
“Sarah Rudinoff has a stadium-sized singing voice and the sharpest comic timing in the tri-state. Playing the character of hard-luck nightclub performer Virginia Tumble, she blesses us with both”
Tonia Steed, The Stranger
“Brandishing a fearsome bosom and a wholesale disdain for all the political niceties the present decade has to offer, Sarah Rudinoff is effortlessly talented in this one-woman tribute to pleasures of the flesh. Rudinoff dominates the stage as Virginia, an amatory adventuress whose roving eye settles on various audience members as she charts a life spent in the pursuit of -well, men, to put it bluntly. She’s a great performer and took seconds to put the opening night audience at ease with a direct style and astonishing vocal range.”
Annabel Crabb, The Adelaide Review
“ **** Four Stars! Without a doubt, one of the brightest characters Fringe-ing about town over the past week has been the avant- garde femme fatale, Virginia Tumble. This brash beauty is the alter ego of Seattle actor Sarah Rudinoff. Funny, funny, funny is Rudinoff’s forte in this riotous cabaret.”
Sarah Thomas, The Adelaide Advertiser