In fact, shows like this are always funnier when they are played in totally sincere and truthful fashion we have to at least be initially grounded in some kind of reality.
“Little Shop of Horrors” and “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” whose Brad and Janet owe something to the proto-squares John (Christopher Kale Jones) and Ellen (Jaye Ladymore), will come to mind, although this is a squeaky clean story, not a transgressive affair filled with sexual tension. Jokes fly from the get-go and much fun is had at the expense of Cold War mores, 3D thrills and all of the conventions of the sci-fi genre. That film, campy by today’s standards, has been turned into a small-sized comic musical by Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair (”Murder for Two”) and has its world premiere Upstairs at Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier. They’re shape-shifters, a la “True Blood.” The extraterrestrial visitors, unfortunate enough to have a single bulging eye and a resemblance to a giant jellyfish, have a novel way of making themselves known: they take over the bodies of the local townspeople.
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In the 1953 movie “It Came From Outer Space” - a groundbreaking, 3D, science fiction attraction - an amateur astronomer and his schoolteacher girlfriend run into aliens in Arizona.
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