Marla Mindelle and Josh Sharp Channel Nicole Kidman and Cate Blanchett in “A Kidman Carol” – and Bah Humbug, I’m Gonna to Miss It! – front mezz junkies, Theater News

Frontmezzjunkies reports: Marla Mindelle and Josh Sharp Channel Nicole Kidman and Cate Blanchett in A Kidman Carol

There are some Off-Broadway fever dreams you hear about and think, “There’s no way I can miss seeing this!” A Kidman Carol: A Gay Dementia on Australian Dames is one of them. But unfortunately for me, I will. This month, Marla Mindelle, the luminous chaos engine from global sensation Titaníque, joins the incomparable Josh Sharp for a developmental run of Kevin Zak’s new celebrity satire at Theater 511, playing from December 17 to 21. And while I should have been booking a ticket, life has conspired to keep me from witnessing what can only be described as a queer holiday séance of the highest order.

Mindelle and Sharp will take on the roles of Nicole Kidman and Cate Blanchett, respectively, already a casting choice bold enough to send any cinephile into delighted panic. In Zak’s farcical spin on A Christmas Carol, Blanchett is visited by not one but three incarnations of Kidman, all determined to guide her toward a deeper understanding of Awards Season. It’s a premise so specifically deranged that it feels like it tumbled out of a group chat between theatre kids and film critics at 2 a.m., and I mean that as the highest praise.

The show promises a celebratory dismantling of the Blanchett–Kidman cinematic universe, skewering Tár, The Hours, Carol, The Lord of the Rings, The Undoing, To Die For, The Others, Notes on a Scandal, Blue Jasmine, Big Little Lies, and likely every raised eyebrow and sculpted cheekbone in between. Expect a love letter wrapped in satire wrapped in a supercut of their most iconic micro-expressions.

They’ll be joined by Renée Albulario, Robi Hager, and Phillip Taratula, with costumes by Wilberth Gonzalez and wigs by Krystal Balleza and Will Vicari, two departments you just know will be working overtime given the subject matter.

If you’re in New York and have even a passing affection for either performer, or for Kidman’s singular ability to look heartbroken in seventeen different shades, do not make my mistake. This is one limited engagement that promises to be as unmissable as it is unhinged.