After a Spartans 30-year losing streak, winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing for Athens University head cheerleader Lyssie J. (Patti Murin) and her coquettish cheerleading squad, who “give up, on giving it up” to their basketball playing …
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Broadway’s ‘Lysistrata Jones’ is no slam dunk – eTaiwan News
Enter a troublemaking transfer student _ Lysistrata Jones, played with winning spunk by Patti Murin _ who creates a cheerleading squad and convinces all the girls to cease carnal favors until the team records a win. It’s basically a sex strike _ what …
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Broadway’s ‘Lysistrata Jones’ is no slam dunk – WSB Radio
Enter a troublemaking transfer student — Lysistrata Jones, played with winning spunk by Patti Murin — who creates a cheerleading squad and convinces all the girls to cease carnal favors until the team records a win. It’s basically a sex strike — what …
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Lysistrata Jones: Broadway’s Naughty New Musical – Daily Beast
Wanting to put an end to their culture of defeatism, Lyssie joins forces with Robin (Lindsay Nicole Chambers), a library assistant/poetry slammer/pariah with an Annie-like mop of red curly hair, to convince the rest of the school cheerleading squad to …
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Review – Lysistrata Jones: She Likes Basketball! – Broadway World
When she convinces the other girls to form the school’s first cheerleading squad and inspire the boys to victory, the Spartans really give an effort but lose a close one, making the guys swear to never try to win again. With drastic measures needed, …
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Mulligan Cracks Up in ‘Glass Darkly’; Lysistrata Sings: Review – San Francisco Chronicle
The clueless basketball team at “less-than-competitive” Athens U is used to celebrating its losses with the more-than- willing cheerleading squad, until their leader, Lysistrata Jones (Patti Murin, a tiny powerhouse), has her consciousness raised by …
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New Musical ‘Lysistrata Jones’ is Headed to the Gym – New York Times (blog)
Mr. Beane said that as he thought over his musical, he decided that the cheerleading angle was unnecessary to set up the sexual and power dynamics between …
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