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While sitting at a small café-like table with another couple, the audience is a-buzz with what candid question they should right down. A simple card with lavender script asks the reader to ‘Ask Alison Anything.’ While scrambling around for a pen, the lights begin to dim and a booming voice introduces Alison Arngrim to the small and intimate stage.
A flicker of light chops into the darkness and an episode of “Little House on the Prairie” starts to play on the movie screen. Nellie Oleson sits serenely on her bed with her infamous golden curls framing her soured face. Nellie angrily erupts throwing herself from her bed to the surrounding area of her room. Throwing objects across the room while screaming and shouting her nemesis’ name, Nellie proceeds to throw a tantrum as she annihilates her dollhouse with a ceramic horse that she stole fair and square.
This scene from “Little House on the Prairie” set the precedence for Alison Arngrim and how people would perceive her for the rest of her life…as a bitch.
Loved by the French and despised by the rest of the world, Alison proudly embraces that she will forever be a major bitch and is told that on a daily basis.
Alison recounts her childhood with much enthusiasm and vivid imagery. Her famous mother and father raised her in an open-minded household located in free spirited West Hollywood. With frequently strong encouragement to be well behaved when the company arrives, her parents proceed to describe that the arriving company is straight. They vote Republican, they wear suits, they go to bed early, and they frequently thumb their nose at the rapid changes of the world. Alison jokes about how the connotation of verbiage has changed as much as the world has.
During the show, her audience is provided a tasty treat and throw back to their childhood, as Alison reenacts her favorite episode of “Little House.” She reminds the audience how and why she is the all reigning supreme “Prairie Bitch.”
A deliciously hilarious comedy act punctuated with vignettes gathered from her colorful past, her encounters with Michael Landon on the set, and various “fan” meetings (detailing random objects that have been thrown in her direction) Alison treats the audience like an old friend who came by for a casual drink and friendly gab.
Alison will be releasing a book on June 22, 2010 detailing her experience in Hollywood as an evil bitch. “Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Being Nellie Oleson and Learned to be Love Being Hated” can be pre-ordered on Amazon. For future comedy shows, you may visit her website www.hgd.com/alison/ for updates, bio information, and to “Ask Alison Anything.”
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