onstagepittsburgh.com: It’s hard to imagine how a play with so much Pittsburgh heart and soul was met with such fondness in previous productions in Los Angeles and Chicago, and now that Andy Warhol’s Tomato is at last being performed in its hometown, it should be feeling the warm glow of a yinzer embrace.
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As a Pittsburgh native, I now feel like I have to go see this show. Reading this review made me feel nostalgic for something I have not yet experienced. Andy Warhol is an icon in Pittsburgh and is someone who I grew up being aware of and learning about, but I didn’t know about “Andy Warhol’s Tomato” until this article somehow. I also read the article and then saw the name of the author and realized that I know her! She is the producer of the show I’m currently working on; Pittsburgh is a small town and the Pittsburgh theatre community feels very everyone-knows-everyone sometimes, which is cool and nice. She works on Off the Record Pittsburgh, which is a “satire musical for a good cause” that happens every year to benefit the Pittsburgh Food Bank. It feels very Pittsburgh to hold a satire musical benefit event, and it’s something that makes me feel pride for this city that I was born in.
I did my scavenger hunt project about the Pittsburgh International Classic Theatre, also know as PICT. In my research, I found out that they were putting on the show, “Andy Warhol’s Tomato” and I was immediately interested just by the title of the show. I think that because Andy Warhol is a Pittsburgh native, and now that they’re putting on the show in Pittsburgh, I have to go see it. The director of the play is also a super successful actor and director, and she seems very accomplished. Given her background, I am sure that this play would be very interesting, entertaining, and enjoyable to watch. While looking through these production photos, the set, props, and costumes look very detailed, like a lot of thought was put into creating and executing these ideas. I definitely think that I should get tickets to go see “Andy Warhol’s Tomato”, which is playing at Carnegie Stage until October 6th. It had open on September 20th, so it has had a decent run time.
I have this article to blame for a very deep internet dive. I didn’t realize Warhol: went to Carnegie Tech, had Sydenham’s chorea (which is what forced him to be artistic at the beginning), was queer, etc. His life was full of turmoil and success and interesting perspective, so to see Warhol in a formative moment is special. The show itself looks so interesting, capturing Warhol at a time that his audience - then and now - wouldn’t usually think of when they are viewing his art. Though the story itself is fictional, it’s an effective capturing of a fragile moment in time for artists, queer people, and pop culture. The duality described in Warhol’s character combined with that of Bones Bonino makes for an interesting character study. Considering as such, I’m intrigued to read the script, if not actually see it!
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