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Blythely Ever After : a musical journey through the life of the tender, testosterone-filled tenor of the century
Blithely Ever After is a musical journey through the life of the tender, testosterone-filled tenor of the century, Blythely Oratonio. Known as the outrageous alter ego of renowned mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe, Drawing on the interdisciplinary roots of the cabaret form, Oratonio mixes opera, pop, rock and roll, and a fair amount of facial hair…
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MID-CENTURY MODERNS A Hilarious Tale of Personal Triumph Set to Beloved 60’s Music
The last time we met ex-Farm Boy turned screenwriter/director MARK CHRISTOPHER he had just successfully launched a Directors Cut of STUDIO 54 his documentary. He was feeling very joyful as this is something that so many filmmakers dream about being able to achieve. When we parted he was off to start a new life…
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Fellow Travellers : Gay Love in the McCarthy Era
Gregory Spears’s critically acclaimed opera Fellow Travellers based on Thomas Mallon’s novel about gay love in the notorious McCarthy Era is having its Florida debut thanks to the Florida Grand Opera. It is set against a background of homophobic paranoia in the 1950s’ where gay men and women were publicly hounded and humiliated in…
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Queer Utopias on the Dancefloor and Beyond
Facing the AIDS crisis and an indifferent mainstream culture at best, an outright hostile one at worst, L.A.’s Gen X LGBTQ+ community found a home for themselves in the performance spaces, and on the dancefloors of clubs like Jewel’s Catch One, Arena, Club Chico, The Palms, Paradise Ballroom, Outer Limits, and Circus. While many…
