Catching up with Rock Star Supernova Storm Large
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Catching up with Rock Star Supernova Storm Large
Portland, Ore., rocker and actress Storm Large will be playing the nightclub singer Sally Bowles in Cabaret, the racy musical opening Wednesday at Geva Theatre Center.
Wherever Large performs, scores of admirers fly in to cheer her on. At least 50 are expected in Rochester — mostly from the East Coast, but a few from as far as England, Puerto Rico and Argentina.
“My fans are super sweet, thoughtful, delicate creatures,” says Large, who was a contestant on the CBS reality show, Rock Star: Supernova. “I’ve never experienced the kind Metallica gets: screaming, disenfranchised males from screwed-up families. Mine are tea drinkers, not slam dancers.”
That’s good news for Geva, where the aisles are a bit narrow for slam dancing. But Large’s flamboyant rock-star persona could unleash the party animal slumbering in midwinter Rochester.
It did in more temperate Portland, Ore., where Cabaret recently set an $829,000 box-office record at the co-producing Portland Center Stage. Large and her co-star Wade McCollum (as the nightclub emcee) got much of the credit.
This 1966 show lives or dies by the charisma of its lead actors. Getting cast as Sally is a sure sign you’re an “it girl,” or least the flavor of the moment. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Debbie Gibson and Brooke Shields have all played the part, though Liza Minnelli still owns it (thanks to the 1972 movie version).
The show’s real star is the Kit Kat Klub, a seedy Berlin nightspot hosted by an alluring yet sinister emcee. Young American writer Cliff Bradshaw begins an affair with Bowles there and gets a front-row view of the Nazis’ violent rise to power.
