Who Shot Warhol? Uh, Gee, That's No Mystery
By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
Published: December 9, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/theater/reviews/09pop.html?_r=1NEW HAVEN — The fabulous freaks who congregated around Andy Warhol during the 1960s were a multitalented bunch. Edie Sedgwick could dangle chandeliers from her ears like nobody else. Gerard Malanga cracked a whip with just as much style, and was a useful handyman as well. The curiosity known as Ondine could ingest amphetamines in epic proportions and maintain his imperious attitude and savage wit. Viva talked a blue streak of high-toned intellectual analysis while simulating sex as the cameras rolled.
But professional singing and dancing? Well, not so much. Discipline and formal training were not highly prized in those heady days at the Factory, and dancing was strictly recreational. So it is more than a little bizarre to see this merry band of misfits reconstituted onstage at Yale Repertory Theater here, baring their scarred souls in song in the musical "Pop!"
