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I'm trying to find the name of a play - premiered off broadway - or maybe during the fringe festival... it was a small 3 or 4 character play about a young hustler who visits a priest and attempts to seduce him. it is insinuated that the hustler had been an altar boy under the priest years earlier... the boy's mother I believe appears in the story as well - and we're forced to wonder if its a scam in an attempt to black mail the priest - a lot of twists and turns... it received mixed to favora...

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Great photos... where was that? Our theatre is a renovated 1920's movie house that seats 200 people, so realtively a small house. We're trying to create an enviormental feeling to push intimacy including blocking in the audience, etc. I aggree with everyone else about Morphine Tango. The only way I know of to compat that writing is to play it for sinister which is what the choreographer and I are gonna try to do. I love this score...I just hope we find the triple threat we need for Aurora.

What do you love about it?

Having seen it as much as you have... what do you think could stand cutting in Act One?

So I'm about to start working on a regional production of Kiss of the Spider Woman. Listening to both the Broadway and Orginal Cast scores and reading (what little) there is on the show, I can't fathom why this show hasn't seen a revival? Or attained more notoriety in the regional setting. What do you think works for spider woman? What doesn't work?

I've been searching on the net and looking in past posts on here but can't seem to find anything. For the revival of JCS they had those ads of jesus in the crowds of Times Square and other metro areas... I can't seem to find any pictures online now... can anyone direct me?

LOL @ Bettyboy... As to the rest... okay, I get what everyone is saying, it's just hard for me to reconcile it. If anything it's not meaningless imagery, its self indulgent! There is TOO much thought and reason behind each image. Look at the Transposed Heads and those brothers holding onto eachother and forming the inverted triangle... the sheer idea is over indulgent. One can not exisist without the other!

Clearly Taymor is not for all people. 1 for 3 on Broadway - sure. I buy that. But when only 1 in 5 shows are recouping their investment, she still is under par. Juan Darien was never meant to be a blockbuster... it didn't have mainstream appeal... it's transfer was more about allowing a more mainstream artist to see the work. But then lets not forget her non Broadway artistic Success including productions of Grendel, The Magic Flute, Tempest, Titus, and Oedipus Rex

I don't get this veheamence for Julie Taymor?! What's everyone's deal with this woman?! She is one of the theatr'e innovators and has worked hard to carve out her own unique theatrical cvocabular. It's not like she through glitter onstage and said 'enjoy' - which having sat through Wicked more then once I feel is like what they did. There is artistry and then maindstream theatre. Julie Taymor is part of that thin slice of director who has been able to combine her work into both. Spiderman can...

Okay, so I'm getting conflicting reports from the people I'm talking to so I thought I'd go to the Board and see if any has any knowledge. EVITA... the current Licensing company is R&H. The site makes no mention of the inclusion of "You Must Love Me" in the score. However, I'm told it's been added to the liceneable production. Anyone produce it recently know anything about it or other changes?

Any clue what the poles are made of that the bird kites are flown on during One By One?

Sally, let me know when you get through the book... we can chat. It was the best 'tell all' I've read in some time.

The more I think about it, the more I'm leaning toward the casting notice referencing Reba... ...in other news, I finally recieved my copy of The Whorehouse Papers - FREAKING HYSTERICAL. Highly recommend it!

Sometimes we need to just step back and say - "Can all this talent really be bad?" SPIDERMAN - A comic book based in a mythic ideal. The base stories that reach audiences at a intimate level are legends and myths... Spiderman is a mythic hero in a new generation Julie Taymor - Director - A known innovator and dramatic stage storyteller who while may be criticized for 'content' should never be criticized for being a showman and that's what Broadway needs more of TRUE showmanship not cheap tric...

Okay, okay, okay, I get it. I didn't say it was, I said it was in some ways...

Michael Bennett you hit the nail on the head... what is with the sequins and boas always for whorehouse? These were 'ladies' after all. There were rules and a sense of morals. I hate it when Whorehouse ends up looking trashy. It should look sexy and even hint at fetishistic, but down right trashy? I don't think so. In some ways this was a feminist musical.

As usual, you guys are a wealth of trivia and useful info. Keep it coming. I had already ordered The Whorehouse papers from a resale shop so it's good to know that the book will not be a bust either. Someone said this show needs a revival... I couldn't agree more. Someone fierce in the Mona role. Bernadette? eh... Idina? Too young? Reba would be great but she has said that she doesn't want to do another revival - right? Lilias White? It might be really interesting to have an African American ...

So I'm researching Whorehouse for a possible directing gig I will have next spring and am having issues finding info on the evolution of the endings. I know in the original there was a 'finale' that was a reprise of 20 fans and had a sort of 'cabaret'ish kinda ending with the fiddle... however from the licenseable script, it ends with Bus Ride to Amarillo... then Carol Hall was asked to write a new song "You've Been A Friend" for the Ann Margaret tour... So I guess what I'm getting at is, wha...

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas with Reba McEntire Porgy & Bess with Brian Stokes Mitchel and Audra McDonald Stop the World! I want to get off! with John Barrowman Bye Bye Birdie with David Hyde Pierce and Sara Ramierez and Cheyenne Jackson as Birdie!