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Alice J. Flick
By day, Alice Flick was the country music critic for the Tucson
Citizen, but by night she would occasionally moonlight as an
actress, appearing in Steel Magnolias with the Desert Players,
many an Old Pueblo Playwrights New Play Festival, and twice
gracing the Quicksilver stage, first as Cilissa in The Oresteia,
and then as all the mother characters in I Laughed, I Cried,
I Shot the Person Next to Me. Alice was tons of fun and endlessly
friendly, plus she pulled strings with her various journalism
connections to get photographers in the door, etc. Not that
being in the newspaper scene herself protected her from critics-
Gene Armstrong, who review theater for the Arizona Daily Star,
had apparently called her performance in Steel Magnolias “retarded”,
though he gave her acting in Oresteia a nod. Alice remained
supportive for the duration of my time in Tucson, though after
I Laughed… she kind of took a hiatus from theater. Her
crowing moment, for me, was playing Arnold, in drag, in The
Vampire Sorority Babes vs. The Inter-Galactic Frat Zombies:
A Ballet. She looked like a Parliament judge in her black robes
and powdered wig, she physicalized all the quotation marks in
her speeches, and when curtain call came she danced like a crazy
fool.
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