Yes, this play is at a venue called the Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre.

Livin’ large and lovin’ it

Big Moves puts on a ‘Hot’ show

The latest “Hot Buffet” to hit Central Square may not appeal to everyone’s taste. But if you’re of legal age and you like your ladies on the larger side, strap on your feedbag and head over to the Cambridge YMCA Family Theatre for a “dystopian musical satire” you won’t soon forget.

Set in 2028, “Hot Buffet” is the story of Andrea, an ex-pat who’s returned to America following a seven-year stint studying culinary arts in Europe. What she finds is a country where the skinny and the sexually repressed rule. Under President Palin, citations are given out for not following the food pyramid and anyone with a lifestyle remotely outside of the government’s bony bell curve faces dire legal and societal consequences.

Andrea’s college roommate has abandoned her neo-feminist roots to work as a dancer at Hot Buffet, the underground club where “patrons can indulge in just about any carnal
appetite.”

While in print, it may sound like a scathing satire, the production feels a bit community theater-like with bad lines, backstage noise and an overall sense of being not quite ready to put on a show. But let’s face it: Who cares about plotlines when two large, scantily clad ladies are bent over your table eating whipped cream and cherries off of one another? And it gets better (or worse, depending on your perspective). You can indulge your own appetite with a sampling of the food, while the ladies, and their nearly naked harness-wearing twink, shake their groove thing(s) in your face.

Yes there’s a drama being played out on the stage and there’s even some impressive singing by Colette Gagnon (Chrissy). But at its core, this musical satire is really all about the large lovelies proudly displaying their assets.


‘Hot Buffet’
Through Oct. 25
Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre
820 Mass Ave., Cambridge
MBTA: Red line to Central
$10-$20, 617-869-2970
www.bigmoves.org