- OTHER MEDIA
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- 7 Sins by James Judd
- SF Bay Guardian February 4, 2009 (Nicole Gluckstern)
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- Even atheists raised by wolves in some exalted suburb of PC-land have
heard of the seven deadly sins — usually because that's where the
fun is usually to be found. Greed, gluttony, sloth: check, check, check.
For La Traviata's Alfredo Germont and SF funnyman James Judd, sin is as
much a motivator as it is a fatal flaw. Against this premise, Judd details
some of the more amusing anecdotes of his personal life, from grade school
geek to stand-up comic, earnest law school student to dot-com-bubble "technology
reporter" with no working knowledge of anything remotely technical.
Judd has an amusingly over-the-top performance style, honed no doubt by
his childhood watching soap operas on behalf of his working mother, and
his comic timing is relentless. This is not a one-man show based on soul-searching
or lessons learned, unless the lesson learned was "always leave 'em
laughing." It's a bit of a stretch, but if you pay close attention
you will more or less encounter each of the seven sins embedded in the
action: "wrath" is personified by an unlikely little high school
punkette named Amy; "lust," a bevy of Beijing hookers bearing
a birthday cake, though at no point during the show does Judd stop to point
out their sequence. He does share the secret to the perfect vodka-based
cocktail though, and he definitely does leave us laughing. (Gluckstern)
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