Kitschy comic thriller "Psycho Beach Party" stars ASUA senator-elect, other UA students

Sarah Calvert is a woman of many personalities - student, ASUA senator-elect, daughter, actress.

And to that, she has recently added a few more - dominatrix, Safeway check-out girl, male model, radio talk show psychiatrist and the accounting firm of Edelman and Edelman.

That's because Calvert, a molecular and cellular biology and political science freshman, is starring as Chicklet Forrest, the schizophrenic, surfer-girl protagonist of Charles Busch's campy play, "Psycho Beach Party."

The production, now running at the Cabaret Theatre, 330. S. Scott Ave., combines elements of '50s psychological thrillers, the '60s beach party movies of Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon and even a little drag in a comedy that Calvert described as a '60s' "American Pie."

"It was their funny sex comedy back in the day," Calvert said.