Frou-Frou: A Menagerie of Sorts

Boston Court Performing Arts Center
70 N. Mentor Ave. Pasadena

L is a stoner with social anxiety, Harold is an aspiring ballerina, and their mother is a woman from another time. Driven by archaic dreams for her children, all Mamma wants is for a man to marry L to rescue the family from financial ruin. So when a big, burly traveler turns up at their doorstep, she thinks her prayers have been answered. But it is Harold, her tutu-wearing son, who seems most attracted to this strange man, while L, her chronically online "daughter," doesn't seem to want him - but wants to become him.

Thru - Mar 30, 2025

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Stage and Cinema - Recommended

"...Boston Court has never been a company to play it safe, and John Anthony Loffredo's world premiere of Frou-Frou: A Menagerie of Sorts is no exception. Inspired by The Glass Menagerie, it starts with Tennessee Williams' delicate world of longing and repression'then gleefully smashes it to bits, rebuilding the pieces into something wild, surreal, X-rated, and entirely its own."

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- Tony Frankel

Stage Scene LA - Highly Recommended

"...If Tennessee Williams were alive today, he might have written Frou-Frou: A Menagerie of Sorts, John Anthony Loffredo's deliciously daring queer riff on Williams' A Glass Menagerie, with a little bit of A Streetcar Named Desire testosterone (and some extended full-frontal male nudity) thrown in for seductive measure."

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- Steven Stanley

Frou-Frou: A Menagerie of Sorts at Boston Court Performing Arts Center