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Whatreallyhappened with David Lee Roth at the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards?
The burning question winks at us with its blend of urgency and nerdery.
Were witnessing that most niche and intense of human passions: fandom.
The MTV VJ (Vanessa Aspillaga) is our host, and weve been invited to her memory play.
What really happened with David Lee Roth…?
Dave (Megan Hill, sportinga chest-hair bathing suitunder her rotating raiment of mesh and leather).
Michael Anthony, stay out of this!
snaps Alex when the portrait dares to glow.
At other times, the cross-gender gambit leads to easy joke territory: your basic women-being-dudes-by-grabbing-their-nutsacks-and-air-humping-and-leering-about-chicks kind of stuff.
is also sweet and appealing, if something of an intentional stock bang out.
Its not the performers that leave you wanting more, but the play itself.
Nothing kills a dream like a lawsuit.
The thrilling, crushing rollercoaster of fame?
The rewards and traumas of creative collaboration?
Its striving for something bigger, but it never quite makes the Jump.
Eddie and Daveis at the Atlantic Stage 2.
