Saturday, September 12, 2009

EW.com reviews 'Toxic Avenger'

Entertainment Weekly's Clark Collis recently reviewed Diana's role in The Toxic Avenger in a piece that was posted on the publication's Web site, EW.com. The review was fairly favorable to Diana, as evident below:

The busty DeGarmo is the object of Ferd's affection, a blind librarian named Sarah who falls in love with the post-gooed-up Melvin and, at times, almost out of her skimpy wardrobe. The singer, who previously appeared in the Broadway version of Hairspray and joined Toxic Avenger last month, exudes an enthusiastic and essential gameness that was singularly lacking in fellow Idol-er Clay Aiken's performance in Spamalot. Where Aiken retreated into the background, DeGarmo hurls herself unselfconsciously into the mayhemic proceedings as she duets with Cordero on the up-tempo ''Hot Toxic Love'' or croons about her beau in ''My Big French Boyfriend.'' (The sightless, and somewhat dim, Sarah believes her pungent new partner hails from the land of Belmondo and, more relevantly, brie.)

Collis gave the Off-Broadway hit musical a "B," and said Diana "is actually rather good" in it. (Photo courtesy of Carol Rosegg).

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