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 set for June 11 at Manhattan's Roseland Ballroom, during which some of New York theater's buffest beauties--those gorgeous chores gypsies Gypsies or Gipsies [from Egypt, because of an inaccurate idea that Gypsies came from a so-called Little Egypt], a traditionally nomadic people with particular folkways and a unique language, found on every continent; they often refer to themselves as Roma. Their language, called Romany, belongs to the Indo-Iranian family and is closely related to the languages of NW India., 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. The word first came into use in the 16th cent.," says Mitchell. "But it's like Gypsy Gypsy - Specification and verification of concurrent systems software. Message passing using named mailboxes. Separately compilable units: routine (procedure, function, or process), type and constant definition, each with a list of access rights. ["Report on the Language Gypsy", A.L. Ambler et al, UT Austin ICSCS-CMP-1976-08-1]. Rose Lee. It's about the way we take it off, not what we show." |
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