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Shows 85-87, 89-92, 102
"THE MUSE-SICK MAN"
Beauty Sleep* or Valley Idiot*
The Uncontrollable Woman* or More Tough Love
Tearing Down Memory Lane* or I'm Your Creation*
You Are That Woman #67* or Wish To God
Act Like You're My Baby* (2nd show only)
VIC'S ORIGINAL PLAYBILL NOTES: "Do you believe in muses? Do you believe in divine intervention? I certainly never believed in muses. That is until I met mine. I'm really not sure what her name was, it was long and unpronounceably Greek with a lot of consonants clustered together like Mnysekmlostyfanes. We'll call her Aggie because life's too short to be Hooked On Phonix. One summer night, I found myself looking up at the moon and stars and waiting for inspiration to come. Maybe I wished for her. Whatever. She came down and pretty much took over my notebook and my life. But muses they will come and they will go and after serving me selflessly for numerous years, I'm afraid my muse Aggie is now on strike. Tonight's show is something of a vigil for her, in the hopes that she'll return and you'll get to seeher. Since she's changed her faces more times than Joan Rivers, I've constructed her likeness as best as I could, based on an anonymous dancing girl from a Three Suns' album cover and bits of mesh and paste. I'm not a praying man but I've taken to lighting candles to sway to my cause such heavenly emmisaries as Santa Jude, the patron saint of lost causes, Santa Barbara, patron saint of long running soap operas and even though I don't believe there's a Saint Bernard, I lit a candle for his assistance, too. Some would say I'm putting too much stock in myths. But take the myth out of tunesmithand it's over."
OF NOTE: Vic debuted two new songs with this show dedicated to his elusive muse. You Are That Woman #67* which larhgely derives from A Sergio Mendes & Brazil 66 recording of Scarborough Fair and I'm a Taker* which deals with the fine art of song stealing incorporating Stevie Nicks' "Dreams," Bread's "Baby I'm a-Want You" and Minnie Ripperton's "Lovin' You" . This is Vic's favorite show to perform--he recites the various monologues in a faux Richard Burton voice because he hates his real speaking voice.
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