Arts Alive! podcast: Actress Liz Power, ‘Fable’

Sarasota-based actress Liz Power is our guest on today’s Arts Alive! podcast.

She’s one of the stars of Fable, the new show opening Saturday at freeFall Theatre (there’s a preview performance tonight). Doug DeVita’s true-to-life play is about the backstage back-and-forth that went into the classic 1959 Broadway musical Gypsy.

Power plays June Havoc, who had been a child Vaudevillian known as “Baby June” – a singing and dancing Kewpie doll under the iron grip of a domineering stage mother. Havoc later fled her mother’s orbit and became a serious actress.

Her younger sister, Lee, went on to become the most famous stripper in the United States, Gypsy Rose Lee. Mom made that happen, too, but at a cost.

Liz Power, left, as June Havoc and Heather Baird as Gypsy Rose Lee. Photo provided.

Fable pits the two adult sisters against one another as Lee’s published memoir is about to be turned into a musical. They are at odds over the show’s depictions of their mother, and the lies she told, the screws she turned, to thrust her girls into show business.

The time-jumping Fable is about the shape-shifting nature of truth.

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