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TIPPI SEAGRAM’S HAPPY HOUR Rating 4 1/2

Oh darlings, you simply MUST see Tippi Seagram!
The internationally renowned actress — and cougar — has deigned to visit the Fringe on one of her comedy charity missions.
Played by Colette Kendall, Seagram is a sassy firecracker of a woman — a mix of Edina and Patsy from Absolutely Fabulous and Babe Bennett from This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Seagram is glamorous, full of herself and gleefully politically incorrect — willing to make jokes about clubbing seals, Canadian separatists, sex over 40, children and her own audience members.
There’s never a dull moment during Seagram’s Happy Hour. It’s snappy, intoxicating, and like a good cocktail, she’ll leave you wanting more.

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Sandra Sperounes
Is it just me or is the overall quality of Fringe plays much higher this year? I only saw one complete dud-(show name with-held), a very predictable and deathly boring zombie play-but the other 15 were worth 3 stars or more, including two absolute knock-outs, Tippi Seagram’s Happy Hour and The Cody Rivers Show: Flammable People……..

There is no hiding from Tippi Seagram. Early on in her happy hour she warns, “This is interactive darlings. I can see you.� For Tippi, a no-boundaries aging starlet, young men are ripe for picking, young women are in need of guidance and older gents are apt to get their sagging genitals tangled in a messy disaster. Funnywoman Colette Kendall has the audience shaking with laughter for a full 60 minutes as she riffs on everything from the PLO to “those ugly asexual� politicos, Shelia Copps and Margaret Thatcher. You might feel slightly guilty laughing at her jokes, but Tippi proves sometimes sacred cows make the best hamburgers. AN

You are a rowdy bunch,” Tippi Seagram coos to her audience.
That was followed by silence. “Humph, apparently not,” she ground out.
Well, there wasn’t much silence for the next hour as an appreciative older audience did have a bit of a rowdy time, prodded on by Tippi’s blend of snappy patter, swell stories and relentless audience participation…..she knows her way around an audience and can deliver a funny line. Tippi (Colette Kendall) sails onto the stage with a crown of unruly blond hair, a snappy little black number, a tacky fur coat, a martini and a dog. She would have us believe that she was once a big star, now reduced to playing the provinces. She seems to be a combination of Bette Davis, Zsa Zsa and a younger, sexier Dame Edna.

“Close your mouth, dahling,” she breathes to one bald-headed gentleman. “You’re starting to drool.”
The aging goddess takes a sense of pride that she’s doing some sort of upscale lounge act. She jokes about getting old, PETA activists and even the obligatory fart jokes. The dipsy diva is as much at home in the audience as she is in front of it. “How long have you been married,” she innocently inquires of a couple in the front row. “Twenty-one years,” they tell her. “Good, then at least we know you don’t have sex anymore.”

Like Dr. Phil, she dispenses wise advice. But mostly, she talks about sex. It’s a fun, frothy hour, irreverent and arresting and a guilty pleasure.
This savvy, plain-talking broad is great company.

I apologize! I have been very remiss in keeping this blog up to date on a daily basis..unlike last year… where you were all subjected to a daily onslaught of observations, musings and reflections on the very minutiae that makes up life on the road for a fringe artist!….be warned I have spared you all this year and would therefore like to be put back on your Christmas card mailing list again!……ok, but this I have got to get to blogging because it is so awesomely cool….so last Wed July 25 I’m doing my matinee performance at the Winnipeg Fringe and there is a fair size crowd ready for me to make with the ha ha…so out I come and I realize that there is a woman who looks very, very familiar sitting in my audience…so my brain does that dichotomy thing…if you are a performer you will instantly understand this…if not, well it’s like this…when you step on stage your brain splits into 2 parts…one part is responsible for getting all the words and actions out for the play, it’s the workhorse…the other part…that lazy bastard half a brain..sits around, probably in brain underwear eating cheesies, making random comments about what’s going on and critiquing what kind of a job the other half is doing…when it’s negative and all judgy I like to call it my mother’s voice!…so on this day it’s sees this woman sitting alone in the audience..and it says..’hey, hey.. isn’t that Margot Kidder? Take a look…No not that much of a look you idiot!…casual like, no eye contact, noooo eye contact…so what do ya think?..is it her?’ it asks…other brain responds between lines…’ummm, I don’t know!…little busy here..do you think you could maybe focus?’…so after 40 min of ‘uncle buck’ brain prodding ‘ask her, ask her’..the show finally ends and I say…’are you who I think you are?”…and… yes! is the answer…OMG! what an honour to have this wonderful actor/activist/humanitarian/woman in my audience!…and to boot she said…out loud…’I loved it’…get outta here!…Ok, she’s just being polite to me in front of the crowd…BUT WAIT…GET THIS!!!..Ms. Kidder comes backstage after the show to HUG me!!…IF I’M LYING I’M DYING!…and tell me she loved the show! Yes! she said LOVED!….AND…. IS THERE SOME WAY SHE CAN GET IN CONTACT WITH ME?…..WHAAAAATTTT!…Oh no sorry, I have a strict unlisted number policy!….YES!!! OMG, Just let me follow you around where ever you go then you needn’t tire your hands dialing my number…not since slutty coeds, has a woman given her telephone number so quickly and freely!!! Winnipeg I was already in love with you, and now, that you have given me one more hilight…even more so now!.. And Thank you Ms. Kidder, it was an absolute pleasure performing for you!