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SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE MEN: A CABARET MUSICAL
SHOW DATES: Wednesday October 20, 2004 (wth Ziaf) and Wednesday October 27, 2004 (with Sukey Tawdry)
WHERE: Ryles Jazz Club, 212 Hampshire Street in Inman Square Cambridge. 617-876-9330. Cabaret seating, dinner available. 8 pm doors, musical starts at 10 pm. $8. advance tix recommended www.ryles.com . 21 plus.
Leah Callahan "Boston's underground cabaret queen"(Boston Phoenix), Jonathan Vincent, and the Illegitimate Theatre Company are resuscitating camp classic Myra Breckinridge this October, with their musical adaptation entitled: Some of My Best Friends Are Men . The production will cull from Michael Sarne's five-million-dollar Hollywood flop and the book by Gore Vidal on which it was based. Taking cues from the surreal strangeness of the 1970 film, characters will include Letitia Van Allen (Sue Mikes) as a horny talent scout; Mary Ann Pringle (Naomi Bennett –who doubles as choreographer for the show), a closeted young lesbian; the megalomaniacal Myra Breckinridge (Leah Callahan) ; ex-cowboy star Buck Loner (Miss Mary Mac); and the gullible, buff Rusty Godowski (Kenneth Gottlieb). The chorus of madcap girls (mirroring the predominant Dionysian references Gore Vidal was so fond of) is made up of: Johanna Orminati , Katrina Galore , and Shiba Nemat-Nasser. The story begins soon after the gay actor Myron Breckinridge has a sex-change operation. As Myra-hiding from creditors and not making much progress in her acting career, she moves from Hollywood to Boston to con her uncle Buck Loner out of half a million dollars and symbolically destroy the American male.
Director/composer/vocalist Leah Callahan and accordionist/pianist/composer Jonathan Vincent's musical score brings a post-modern spin to classic Vaudeville and Broadway; the end result sounds like John Cage interpreting West Side Story with John Waters penning the lyrics. The book and subsequent film Myra Breckinridge came about at the beginnings of the Gay and Women's Liberation movements; it was both a shocking and groundbreaking work. Almost thirty-five years later, the Illegitimate Theater Company playfully examines what has changed, and what has not.
Jonathan Vincent (accordion, piano), Chris Manschreck (bass), and Mark Nathanson (percussion), the musicians accompanying the recent show Mad Maids , will make up the orchestra for the performance, along with special guests Matty Metcalfe on accordion and Katt Hernandez on violin. They will "offer up everything from Yiddish opera revivals and Gilbert and Sullivan-esque songs to the type of completely indefinable scores that manage, ironically, to define them. " -Weekly Dig
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Date: 2004-10-08 07:02 am (UTC)I look at your userpic, see that it looks familiar, then realize you're in my meetup.com community.
Then I look at your userinfo, and realize that Alisia and I were *talking* about you last Friday as she was describing the ducks/Fort Point film!
So, hi. :)
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Date: 2004-10-08 09:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-08 10:17 am (UTC)But "should"? Nah.
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Date: 2004-10-08 10:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-08 10:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-08 10:32 am (UTC)Anyway, I'm trying to teach a physical comedy class, and want to talk to you about how to get students (I had a horrible time the last couple times and Alisia said you got her tons of people)
I have a space I can book at CasaNia in Jan or Feb, could you help me out?
ps - you can email me at morninghood at yahoo dot com