10 best of the year: stage. (Theater).1) The Full Monty and The Producers (Broadway) They put gay people onstage, not backstage, and sparked plenty of debate. 2) Giulio Cesare (Los Angeles Opera The Los Angeles Opera is an opera company in Los Angeles, California, United States. The company's home base is the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, part of the Los Angeles Music Center. ) Countertenors David Daniels, David Walker, and Bejun Mehta hit a new high. 3) The Car Man (national tour) Matthew Bourne's hunky take on Carmen Carmen throws over lover for another. [Fr. Lit.: Carmen; Fr. Opera: Bizet, Carmen, Westerman, 189–190] See : Faithlessness Carmen the cards repeatedly spell her death. [Fr. . 4) The Invention of Love (Broadway) Richard Easton and Robert Bean Leonard won Tonys as gay poet A.E. Housman. 5) Wuornos (San Francisco) Lesbian serial killer Aileen Wuornos, by out composer-librettist Carla Lucero. 6) Valley of the Dolls Valley of the Dolls portrays self-destruction of drug addicted starlets. [Am. Lit.: Valley of the Dolls] See : Drug Addiction (Victory Fund staged reading, Los Angeles) Bruce Vilanch, Alec Mapa, and Wilson Cruz as Susann's heroines. Wildly funny. 7) Garbo's Cuban Lover (Los Angeles) Odalys Nanin wrote, directed, and starred as lesbian legend Mercedes de Acosta Mercedes de Acosta (March 1, 1893 – May 9, 1968) was a Cuban-American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite best known for her lesbian affairs with Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Alla Nazimova, Tamara Karsavina, Eva Le Gallienne, Isadora Duncan, Katharine . 8) Resident Alien (off Broadway) Quentin Crisp, channeled by Bette Bourne Bourne, town (1990 pop. 16,064), Barnstable co., SE Mass., crossed by Cape Cod Canal; settled 1627, inc. 1884. Bourne Bridge (1935), across the canal, made the town an entry point to Cape Cod and a resort and commercial center. . 9) Ennio Marchetto (national tour) A human pop-up book, Truly original. 10) Truemyth (off Broadway) A fierce homage to David Wojnarowicz. |
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