This Raunchy New Off-Broadway Show Parodies One of My Favorite Lindsay Lohan Movies

That red hair...looks familiar

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This has been quite the year for theater. I'm talking Audra and Nicole, steamy stripping and Tony Award debacles. And just when I thought things were calming down (summer is usually the time when a slew of shows close to make room for new productions in the fall), a fabulous new play has hit the Off-Broadway scene. And don't be surprised if the plot is giving you deja vu.

According to the description of Ginger Twinsies, now playing at the Orpheum Theatre in NYC's East Village, "In the summer of 1998, a pair of long lost, red-headed twin girls unexpectedly meet at sleep-away camp and hatch a plan to reunite their estranged parents. Sound familiar? Shut up, no it doesn’t!" In fact, it does sound familiar, because the riotous and raunchy comedy is an 80-minute parody of Lindsay Lohan's The Parent Trap.

Here, my rave review of Ginger Twinsies.

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Russell Daniels (Titanique) and Aneesa Folds (Freestyle Love Supreme)—both pictured above—play Annie and Hallie, the twins originally portrayed by Lohan in the 1998 film. As in the movie, Annie and Hallie learn about the existence of one another after meeting at camp and decide to swap places as part of a "parent trap." (The show also features references to the OG 1961 version starring Hayley Mills, but it's primarily focused on lampooning the Lohan remake.)

Ginger Twinsies leans in hard to the obvious physical differences between the twins played by Daniels and Folds. In fact, the only real "resemblance" between the two involves their Spirit Halloween-esque red wigs. Both performers are fabulous in their parts, delivering laugh after laugh.

And they aren't the only standouts.

Phillip Taratula steals every scene he's in as the "villainous" Meredith Blake, Hallie's soon-to-be stepmom. The seriously unserious send-up of Blake (portrayed in the film by Elaine Hendrix, who also happens to be a producer of Ginger Twinsies) is sheer comedic genius. It starts with a parody of Blake's ridiculous hats (she enters the stage for the first time wearing a hat the size of, well, the stage) and keeps going right up until an "eleven o'clock" soliloquy where she wonders aloud who the real villain of The Parent Trap is.

The stagecraft is simple and the actors play a number of silly characters. The humor is off-color (or off-colour for Annie, the British twin). The laughs are huge (even bigger than Blake's hat).

Though I wouldn't recommend this for children or for anyone who is easily offended, I truly can't say enough wonderful things about this breezy and entertaining parody play.

Ginger Twinsies is now playing at the Orpheum Theatre.

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