Butter: A Love Story

Written and Performed by Kristin Cantwell
Directed by Wynn Creasy, Accompanied by John Marlowe

By Bob Morrison

Full Disclosure: I've known Kristin for a couple of years, and I did her publicity photos for both "Butter: A Love Story" and "Confessions of an Invisible Woman," her CapFringe entry last year. However, although I'm not exactly an unbiased observer, I hadn't heard any of her show songs until I went to The Warehouse Theater--Beyond at 1017 7th Street N.W. Saturday at noon.
Kristin plays hot new TV Food Show host Sandy Patti.




Patti's specialty: Virtual Home Cooking Made Easy. "Why," she asks with relentless bonhommie, "should we spend time cooking when we could be eating?" I'm still scratching my head over that one.




Original songs include "Peel Me a Grape," "Sara "Lee," and of course the ode to her object of desire, "Butter."




Patti even gets the audience to join the chorus of "Taylor, the Latte Boy," a poignant tale that will transport you to that time in your youth when you loved from afar.



A rousing "Bigger Is Better" proved an ample final number. I was happy to see the art of the double entendre alive and well.

See more photos from "Butter: A Love Story" on my Bonnie Briar Productions web site.

Cheers.
Bob