PORCELAIN
Friday, October 10th, 2008
BRUTAL TOILET-SEX MURDER IN BETHNAL GREEN!
British tabloids trumpet the news of a vicious murder in a public lavatory in East London. John Lee, a nineteen-year-old Londoner of Asian descent, is accused of cold-bloodedly shooting William Hope, his twenty-six-year old Caucasian lover, six times at close range. Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
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EARTH SUCKS
Sunday, October 5th, 2008NOT RECOMMENDED
–How do you explain gravity?
–Earth sucks.
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JOE’S GARAGE
Saturday, September 27th, 2008RECOMMENDED
Like The Who’s Tommy, Frank Zappa’s 1979 rock opera Joe’s Garage began its life on vinyl. Both rock operas take their titular heroes on a life journey. But while Tommy moved rather quickly from concept album to movie to staged production in London’s West End, it is only now that Joe’s Garage, the cult LP, is getting its first stage adaptation by L.A.’s Open Fist Theatre Company.
RAGTIME
Saturday, September 20th, 2008
Musical Theatre Of Los Angeles’ sensational revival of Ragtime The Musical is the kind of production they say “can’t be done,” and yet, miracle of miracles, they’ve done it. One of the most truly epic shows ever to have filled a Broadway stage, the original production featured a cast of 50. MTLA’s production scales that down somewhat (the program lists 37 performers) but even so, merely to fit those three dozen actors on the Hudson Backstage Theatre’s stage (plus a 10-piece orchestra and conductor) seems nigh on impossible, let alone have them move, interact, even dance. But they’ve done it. Yes, indeed, they’ve done it!
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43 PLAYS FOR 43 PRESIDENTS
Friday, September 19th, 2008
Arriving just in time for the election season, 43 Plays For 43 Presidents is a lickety-split rollercoaster ride through the last 219 years of American history.
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WEHO
Friday, September 19th, 2008
Classic nighttime soaps, Dynasty and Melrose Place to name just two, get a hilarious gay spoofing in the Celebration Theater’s latest late night hit, WeHo, named after “the most dramatic city never to hit prime time. Some call it West Hollywood. We call it WeHo!”
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SPEECH & DEBATE
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
A Salem, Oregon high school teacher cruises school restrooms and gay.com to pick up 18-year-old students for sex. Salem’s conservative mayor is rumored to up to similar shenanigans, all the while promoting an anti-gay agenda. Sounds like the basis for a stark, current-as-today’s-headlines drama, right?
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LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS
Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Lovers And Other Strangers is perhaps best known as the Oscar-winning 1970 movie which starred Gig Young (remember him?), Bea (then Beatrice) Arthur and Cloris Leachman (pre Maud and MTM), and featuring an unknown actress named Diane Keaton in her very first film role. (A dollar to whoever can remember in what category Lovers And Other Strangers won its Oscar.)
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