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Giving their all.


"Everybody takes something off, and some people take off a lot more than others." That's Jerry Mitchell's promise for the tenth anniversary celebration "Broadway Bares X--The Best of Broadway Bares," a sexy soiree soi·ree also soi·rée  
n.
An evening party or reception.



[French soirée, from Old French seree, from seir, evening, from Latin
 set for June 11 at Manhattan's Roseland Ballroom, during which some of New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 theater's buffest beauties--those gorgeous chores gypsies, male and female alike, usually hoofing behind the stars--will take center stage and peel it off to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. "It's modern-day burlesque burlesque (bûrlĕsk`) [Ital.,=mockery], form of entertainment differing from comedy or farce in that it achieves its effects through caricature, ridicule, and distortion. It differs from satire in that it is devoid of any ethical element. ," says Mitchell. "But it's like Gypsy Rose Lee Noun 1. Gypsy Rose Lee - United States striptease artist who became famous on Broadway in the 1930s (1914-1970)
Rose Louise Hovick, Lee
. It's about the way we take it off, not what we show."
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Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1U2NY
Date:Jun 20, 2000
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