Scared Skinny Theatre Review 2017

  Review of Scared Skinny by Carmen Amoros

NEW YORK’S LOVEABLE ACTOR COMEDIAN:

A one (hundred pound lighter) woman show

written & performed by Mary Dimino

directed by Christine Renee Miller

lighting design by Kia Rogers

Player’s Theater, 2016

website: Http://www.scared-skinny.com

twitter: @MaryDimino

A powerful comedic force, Mary Dimino takes her audience on an intimate, funny and equally poignant journey through her life as an overweight adolescent.

Scared Skinny is a show filled with hilarious moments of truth, heartbreak, and laughter along with tender teary moments, too.

Mary emerges victor over her battles against the devastating loneliness that obesity can create in one’s life. Through it all, Dimino ingeniously pulls us through her roller coaster journey, and along the way provides the audience with uproarious laughter, deep insights, and dozens of applause breaks.

Comedian Actress Mary Dimino, Scared Skinny [Photographer Unknown]

A candid, autobiographical story, Dimino’s one woman show gives the viewer first hand insight into those 'other' things that obesity can deprive a person from fully experiencing in life, things that are rarely revealed, but often known only by the person living it. Dimino speaks her truth with honesty and courage about these topics like I have never seen before.

It is not a show designed to manipulate human emotion, but rather one that places the observer front and center, in Mary's shoes. And because of Mary Dimino’s powerful writing and adept acting skills, you cannot help but feel like it is your very foundation that is being shaken awake.

Comedian Actress Mary Dimino before Scared Skinny [Photographer Unknown]

With striking humor, Mary manages to make the audience feel her painful reality and in doing so, remarkably infuses realism with comedy. Amazingly, you laugh until you cry, and then you laugh again, feeling every nuance of the string of characters Dimino so effortlessly portrays and meticulously brings to life. Her characters have great depth to them, and are people who played important roles in shaping her life (for better or worse), starting with her overbearing grandmother, her worrisome mother, her colorful friends and a host of loser boyfriends, who have never got to experience the fullness of the beautiful Mary hidden under the guise of obesity, waiting to be discovered.

Scared Skinny is a powerful, moving and intensely funny production, from beginning to end. Mary's ingenuity, positive energy and her ability to lock the audience's attention from the moment she steps foot on the stage, is what makes this show so unique and such an incredible success in this reviewer’s eyes.  Download this review in .PDF form to your Download folder.

View the trailer, the Scared Skinny page the Mary Dimino Channel on YouTube and keep an eye out for the next show!

The Finkel Brothers LIVE at the Metropolitan Room

Review by Carmen Amoros Goldberg

Ian and Elliott Finkel

The Finkel Brothers LIVE at the Metropolitan Room

With all of the amazing talents that leave their mark on the prestigious Metropolitan Room stage in New York City, a stage where only the finest music and comedy talents bring the sparkle of stardust and leave their signature magic, you would think you have experienced all that the best of the best have to offer. Then one evening on July 15^th, you walk through the room’s doors again only to be mesmerized and thrilled by the hot, spicy Latin rhythms and classical flavors of the world’s greatest Xylophonist, Ian Finked and his virtuoso pianist brother, Elliott Finkel, together, with their exceptional band, Martin Fisher on drums, Ed Sterbenz on Bass and Jay Berliner on Guitar.

Elliott [Left] and Ian Finkel [Right]

The Finkel Brother's famous Father, Hollywood movie and TV Legend Fyvush Finkel passed away in 2016 at the age of 93.  He may be gone now, but he left us the gift of being greatly delighted and cheered by the sounds and happy rhythms of two stellar musicians, Ian and Elliott. 

Ian Finkel on the Xylophone at the Metropolitan Room

The Finkel Brothers LIVE at the Metropolitan Room turned out to be such a blast that at times I found myself literally dancing in my seat.  The evening was filled with the majesty of Gershwin and a wonderful upbeat, spirit lifting, foot stomping, yet heart rendering medley of “I Got Rhythm," “Oh, Lady Be Good.” “Summertime," “Who Could Ask for Anything More," all beautifully mashed with “Rhapsody in Blue,” a number that provokes the full awakening of those hidden emotions that sweetly and unexpectedly emerge.

The way that Ian hammers his magnificent sticks on the Xylophone keys is purposefully entrancing, a complete seduction that is happening, making the shoulders sway, the body move and the audience cannot keep from stomping their feet. You are no longer in control and you must give in.  

Elliott Finkel on Piano at the Metropolitan Room

Elliott’s piano wizardry is astounding. He plays and then suddenly you are connected to every note, roll and swell and the notes coming from his finger tips elevate your spirit with every crescendo and now you're sure that both of the Finkel Brothers have conspired to have their music rapture the audience, inspire and carry their senses completely away. You just want to go along on this wonderful melodious journey.

TV Comedian Impersonator Bob Greenberg was literally a whirlwind in The Finkel Brothers LIVE at the Metropolitan Room, bringing a clean, hilariously powerful comedy program that completely blew me and the audience away.  The man does the greatest impersonations of Jackie Gleason, Lou Costello and Curly from the Three Stooges (and others), that I have ever seen.  A master of his craft, Greenberg has a way of leaving the audience wanting to hear more.  

The Finkel Brothers will be back at the Metropolitan Room, August 3^rd, 2017, so please make sure that you come and take the journey and this time with Three Time Emmy Award Winner TV Comedian Dave Konig, who will be joining the Finkels LIVE.  They will have a new repertoire.  You don’t want to miss it! Watch The Finkel Brothers at the Metropolitan Room Video below.  It's Sensational!  Buy TICKETS for The Finkel Brothers LIVE on August 3rd below!

The Finkel Brothers LIVE at the Metropolitan Tickets::

http://metropolitanroom.com/event.cfm?id=264119&cart

Bob Greenberg on Facebook:

 https://www.facebook.com/we334223es