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[Elphaba]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 9:38am

Here's to another fun IML weekend in Chicago, While I'll be in Long Beach with my sister, I'll be there in spirit.

And yes folks that's "yours truly" some years ago when I represented Detroit in IML.........ahhh....memories

Posted: 5/27/05 at 10:51am

Woof, Elphaba, Woof!

I was on the strip last night and BOY was it jumping! An article in the Tribune said that the city estimates 17,000 tourists are coming to town for IML/Bear Pride events this weekend! No wonder there are lines at all the bars~

[Elphaba]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 10:55am

Joe, thanks.......it's an old picture, but I've had no complaints, just aches, lol
That was what was nice about being in IML, no waiting in lines.....as our ID's moved us to the front and in immediately.
Sounds like it'll be a fun weekend for Chicago!
By the way, when is Halsted Days?
And do you know if Zum Deutschen Eck, a german restaurant is still on Lincoln, or even still open?

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 10:58am

E - I am pretty sure that Zum Deutschen Eck is closed. My father in law loved that place and used to eat beff brains, I cannot recall the German name.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 11:06am

DAMN......thanks brd, it was one of my two favorite german restaurants in the US, the other being The Black Forest Inn in San Diego, which also closed.
When I came back to the US in (EEK) 1976, I was having German withdrawel, and the couple that owned the Black Forest Inn were from Karlsruhe, where I ahd lived in Germany, so they sort of adopted me into their family and made the transition much easier......

[WindyCityActor]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 11:18am

"By the way, when is Halsted Days?
And do you know if Zum Deutschen Eck, a german restaurant is still on Lincoln, or even still open?"

Halsted Day is Aug 6 & 7, this year

and, alas, Zum Deutschen Eck has been closed for quite a while.

I shall be taking an nice two hour lunch break and skulking around the the Leather Market today.
Updated On: 5/27/05 at 11:18 AM

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 11:26am

Elphaba - there is a fun old fashioned German restaurant with German music in Lincoln Square. I cannot recall the name it is on Lincoln Avenue.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 11:29am

thanks brd, just found that...Chicago Brauhaus
I wanted to take my partner to Zum for his birthday when we're there in August, I'll check brauhaus out.

http://www.chicagobrauhaus.com/

[AbbaRabbit]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 11:38am

If you're evern in CT, there's an awsome German resturaunt called East Side
and there's a German meat market in Hartford

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 11:45am

Only on BroadwayWorld could this thread happen.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 12:11pm

lol Pal,
Abba, what city is East Side in, anywhere near Fairfield (my Aunt lives there)

Posted: 5/27/05 at 12:17pm

Zum Deutschen Eck is closed and not Condos fill that "eck", Deutschen no longer. Don't forget Berghoff, for my money the best German restaurant in town.

My best Deutschen Eck memory: I took some friends to see "Bent" at the Atheneum. It was done "environmentally": the first act, you sat at Cabaret tables as if you were patrons in the nightclub. At the end of the first act, as the Nazis come to power, armed guards in SS uniforms burst into the theatre and chased everyone out for intermission. When we came back from intermission, the theatre had been redone as a Prison Camp: all the seating was behind barbed wire. The guards randomly assigned you places to sit and would periodically split up couples or groups, screaming at you in German. Needless to say, the show was quite effective in this setting and we came out,all quite shaken by what we'd experienced. None of us felt much like dinner after, but one of my friends had made reservations so we headed down the street...to Zum Deutschen Eck!

Never have oompah bands, tyrolian hats and Blonde women in braids seemd quite so terrifying.

[AbbaRabbit]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 12:21pm

East Side is in New Britian, on Dwight Street

http://www.eastsiderestaurant.com/ <-- there's a menu on the site

[WindyCityActor]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 12:35pm

OH MY GOD!!!!!

JoeKv99,

I was in that production of "Bent!" I played one of those hateful Nazis! When I was cast, I wasn't aware of the audience interaction element until the first rehearsal. I might have had second thoughts accepting the role, cuz I'm not that comfortable doing that type of interaction with the audience.

I have some crazy stories to tell about some of the audiences' reactions.

One guy left during intermission, and wrote an angry letter to us stating that he suffered a huge panic attack.

Anyway, I was the Nazi Captain that ordered the throat slitting of Wolf in the first scene. I later odered Horst to throw his hat on the electric fence at the end.

It was quite an experience.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 12:42pm

Joe, I would have screamed back in German at them, LOL......the movie Bent freaked me out, I can only imagine what that production would do to me

[WindyCityActor]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 12:48pm

Elphaba,

I'm afraid that me and the actor playing the other really Nasty Nazi were the biggest GURLS in the cast.

He was the Nazi that ordered the killing of Rudy (who was played by my best friend) in the train sequence.

We would have read your beads severely...ala Bette Davis!!!

I've always found that the more serious the script, the campier the backstage life.
Updated On: 5/27/05 at 12:48 PM

Posted: 5/27/05 at 2:56pm

WCA it was a WONDERFUL show-- I don't recall your performance, but do recall Horst's nude scene --Often!!

My friends weren't really "theatre" folks and knew the show was "gay" but had no idea of the story line. They were traumatized! I figured there had to be some really outraged patrons-- the moment when the Nazis burst in, people FREAKED! I thought it was a great idea!

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 3:05pm

I am still giggling over the fact that the poster known to us as "Elphaba" is a big old leather queen!

[Elphaba]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 3:07pm

sueleen.....I take issue with the words "big" and "old" lololl

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 3:10pm

Why? To some those words are synonymous with "HOT!"

[Elphaba]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 3:18pm

hehehe....works for me

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 3:23pm

The b/f just called from the mart to tell me he just walked by Zach Speers!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 3:24pm

I believe you're supposed to call him "Hot Daddy Elphaba...SIR!"

[WindyCityActor]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 3:26pm

Actually, the only nude scene was in the first scene with the character of Wolf.....big beefy muscle guy. The actor was a sweet enough guy....very straight....and hated having to dye his hair blonnde for the role....those awful root touch-ups.

The production could have run for months...but the theatre company was renting the space..and a another production was moving in. Becuase of the way at the performance space was used, the production couldn't transfer.

Anyway, just got back from the Leather Market at IML. So many toys and boys!!!

[WindyCityActor]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 3:29pm

Zak Spears! He's dreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaammmmmmmmmmmyyyyyyy!

Re: Elpheba.....when we adopted our Corgi puppy....if it was a female, we were gonna name it Elphie. Oy!
Updated On: 5/27/05 at 03:29 PM