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Review

Outrageous in concept and cartoonishly campy in execution, this high energy, patently offensive musical romp — think The Wizard of Oz meets The Rocky Horror Picture Show as staged by Busby Berkeley — will have you either dancing in the aisles or running for the exits. In Bumbuck, Arkansas, a dirt-water town peopled by white Bible-thumping hicks, we find Alice, a sweet young thing who, in a moment of despair before her shotgun wedding, kills herself. She reemerges on the Isle of Sapphos — an Amazonian underworld led by a corpulent queen (Blatz Balinski, a bear-guzzling bulldyke’s bulldyke) who rules over a bevy of gorgeous, scantily clad lesbian subjects (and one gay boy-toy there to do the laundry). Alice discovers her sexual wonderland as she embraces the Sapphic way of life. But the folks back home arrive determined to take her back to their heterosexual world. As lesbian camp musicals -- it's a classic (quick, name another!)