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| DATE | 2002-11-01 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] NYLXS Membership Night Out? It could work...
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We don't have enough women to pull this off,
but if your volunteering your services to raise money in the
gay community.... we can get Mike to give you volunteer creds
Ruben
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 04:42:38PM -0000, Inker, Evan wrote:
>
> Cheerleaders Put the Fun in Fund-Raising
> By BRUCE WEBER
>
> It isn't really; it's live, late-night television: shamelessly silly,
> shrewdly and smugly self-aware, proud of being naughty. There are plenty of
> giggles for those who arrive at the Jane Street Theater, where the show
> opened last night (after a premiere, à la "Urinetown" at the New York
> International Fringe Festival), with a high tolerance for prurient humor.
> This is a show that requires a self-selecting audience; you know who you
> are.
>
> There is nothing consequential or even particularly clever in the book, the
> music or the lyrics. Some of the dirty jokes are very witty; some are
> decidedly not. Some are obvious. (There are a lot of bananas, for example,
> and one big red candle.) Some are downright revolting, though granted that's
> a matter of personal taste. As for the onstage gymnastics, they are not
> subtle in their suggestiveness, but the only nudity, oddly enough, is male.
>
> The real credit (if that's the right word) for the show goes to Susan L.
> Schwartz, who somehow conceived the notion that the story of a bunch of high
> school cheerleaders who giddily perform sexual favors to earn money for a
> trip to Dallas could work on the stage. (By the way, I'm assuming that's the
> story of the film; readers will forgive me, I hope, for not doing a critic's
> standard source material research.)
>
> What Ms. Schwartz really conceived was an attitude, an extreme archness that
> sends up itself along with the clichés exploited by pornography: the
> hormone-addled high school football star, the leering older man and the
> various species of teen-age girl. That spirit is nicely translated by the
> director, Erica Schmidt (who also wrote the book), and by a very game cast,
> all of whom seem to be having great fun while they wait for better jobs. The
> women especially - Sherie Rene Scott, Mary Catherine Garrison, Caitlin
> Miller, Tricia Paoluccio and Jama Williamson - acting all atwitter, are, for
> lack of a better word, adorable.
>
> I hesitate to say this, but judging by the number of young couples in the
> audience who were apparently enjoying themselves, "Debbie Does Dallas"
> probably makes quite the ice-breaking date, at least for people who aren't
> easily embarrassed.
>
> DEBBIE DOES DALLAS
> Adapted by Erica Schmidt; composed by Andrew Sherman; conceived by Susan L.
> Schwartz; based on the film, by special arrangement with VCX Ltd.; directed
> by Ms. Schmidt; choreography by Jennifer Cody; additional music and lyrics
> by Tom Kitt and Jonathan Callicutt; sets by Christine Jones; costumes by
> Juman Malouf; lighting by Shelly Sabel; sound by Laura Grace Brown; musical
> supervision, Mr. Kitt; production manager, Kai Brothers; production stage
> manager, Megan Schneid; associate producers, Ms. Schwartz, Clint Bond Jr.
> and Aaron Harnick; general mangement, the Araca Group. Presented by the
> Araca Group, Jam Theatricals and Waxman Williams Entertainment. At the Jane
> Street Theater, 113 Jane Street, Greenwich Village.
>
> WITH: Paul Fitzgerald (Hardwick, Bradley, Nick, Tim, Ashley, Johnny), Mary
> Catherine Garrison (Lisa), Caitlin Miller (Tammy), Tricia Paoluccio (Donna),
> Del Pentecost (Greenfelt, Biddle, Kevin), Sherie Rene Scott (Debbie), Jon
> Patrick Walker (Rick, Hamilton, Bigtime) and Jama Williamson (Roberta).
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/27/arts/theater/27ZINO.html
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/30/arts/theater/30DEBB.html
>
>
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