Lee Eddy went to CMHS and was a riot. She went to St Edwards in Austin and became a super-duper young actress-comedian. Now she's one of Austin's best-known performers. If we invited her home for a show we'd probably have a hit on our hands.

Please see
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2001-09-28/arts_set20.html
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gbase/Awards/BestOfAustin?Poll=Critics&Year=2003&seentheform=1&BOACategory=Arts+%26+Entertainment
http://ladeeleroy.diaryland.com/index.html


From a blog ...

Lodger and the Ladee Leroy

Johnny Oh!, Mark Brauner, and I recently went to see Lee Eddy's one (wo)man show at the Hyde Park Theater a few weeks ago. I have only seen Eddy in Courtney Davis' short film "The Interview," which is hilarious. Mark worked with her on a comedy troupe project called "the Hyper Jackson Chamber" a few times and knows her a little better.

Eventually, Eddy comes on stage in a T-shirt that says "Tis Herself" and introduces the show. She's so boyish that I find her attractive. She tells us that the piece we are about to see, "The Ladee Leroy" (pronounced Lady) has two parts, Menu A about her day job and Menu B about her love life. She told us that in week one she did Menu A and in week two she did Menu B and since this is week three, we get to vote. Menu B won by a landslide.


Lee takes a short break and soon the lights dim and she is back onstage and begins a dialogue where she plays the narrator, herself and a Britsh guy. This is Lipman, who becomes her beau and appears in many of the monologues that follow. Eddy does a wonderful joke where, playing both parts she say:


Lipman in bad British accent) I'm Australian you know Ladee Leroy: I thought you were British Lipman with accent) I have a British mother and an Australian father... Ladee Leroy: That explains the muddled accent


Hahahahahaha - That's ******* funny.


"The Ladee Leroy" has projected film piece to introduce each segment (which only serve to allow her breath between pieces) which are announced by a unseen narrator off stage behind her. In anohter piece, he is seen in shadow behind a sheet at the rear of the stage and in another he actually appears on stage with her as a dancer.


There seemed to be a few segments that may have been in both shows including two sequences in which she pays tribute to food products (Thundercloud Subs and The Whopper) and a monologue about looking for a new apartment and how her old apartment knows that she's cheating on it. The sequences about her relationship with Lipman, including her jealosy of some guppies, an interesting argument they have, and how special he makes her feel at breakfast one morning, are delightful, warm, honesty and funny. Eddy has a gigantic assuredness on stage and delivered this one-person show with numerous characters and tons of stories with aplomb.


This is a real show with real characters, not just Eddy doing stand-up in a theater setting. The ideas presented are compelling, interesting and unique. The relationship she describes is often quirky and absurd and tinged with a brutal honesty but it's also just as likely to be loving, sweet and tender. Eddy always deals with ideas that evokes laughter and humor first but she isn't affriad to be honest, poignant or even sappy. This is a well rounded presentation and one that proves Eddy is more than just a stand-up comic. Her work here is nothing short of phenomenal.


After the show, we hung out near the front of the theater and eventually got to meet Eddy. Even though she called me Roger (I ususally don't correct people when they do this), I found her to be sweet, polite, charming and real. There's no ego here. She's just adorable and I am now officially a huge fan!


After saying our goodbyes, the three of us headed to Kerby Lane on the Drag again. I was in a loud and goofy mood and enjoyed getting sidelong glances from the stodgy folks next to us. We had a waiter with a shaved head who was as gay as I am but, when he took forever getting u