Ted Haggard's Escort on Stage!

[BigFatBlonde]

Posted: 8/23/07 at 5:59pm

Forget The Little Mermaid!

This show sounds much more interesting:

Mike Jones, the prostitute/drug liaison who brought down pastor Ted Haggard, is about to appear in his first stage play. And it's for a theater company called Perfect Disgrace.
Insert your own joke here.

The play is called "Porridge," and Jones, 50, will be playing a role inspired by - himself. Boulder playwright Brian Bauman, a 29-year-old gay man, sees Jones as a man who took a risk, uncovered a hypocrite, and was then abandoned by the gay community.

"I find Mike Jones to be heroic," Bauman said. "And that is why I cast him in this play."

Jones' theater background? "I don't have any," he said with a laugh.

No matter to Bauman. He calls it a casting coup. "I'm not concerned with

As a masseuse and escort, Mike Jones claims to have had many military clients seeking both services. "When I had men come to me that were in the military, a lot of the encounters were emotional," Jones said. "They were scared." (The Denver Post / Cyrus McCrimmon)ideas of 'traditional' acting expertise," he said. "I have complete faith in Mike's performing abilities."
"Porridge" deals with issues of truth and hypocrisy in power relationships. More specifically, Bauman said, "it's the story of three Gulf War Marines who go AWOL after being exposed to friendly-fire nerve gas in an all-base orgy."

Bauman calls it a scathing (and "decimatingly funny") investigation of American cultural imperialism in the Middle East, the quagmire of the Persian Gulf War and the shadows cast by "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."

It will be performed five times at the Boulder International Fringe Festival, which opens Thursday.

It's fiction, of course. But not entirely. Jones, who prefers to be described as "a masseuse and escort," claims to have had many military clients seeking both services over his 26 years in the sex industry.


For rest of article go to:

http://www.denverpost.com/theater/ci_6586882

Updated On: 8/23/07 at 05:59 PM

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/23/07 at 6:05pm

He wasn't an escort. He was a masseur.

[BigFatBlonde]

Posted: 8/23/07 at 6:09pm

Actually we are both correct.

From article:

"Jones, who prefers to be described as "a masseuse and escort,"

***

I love how the author of the article describes him as:

"Mike Jones, the prostitute/drug liaison"

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/23/07 at 7:23pm

I don't think the article quoted him correctly. He doesn't use the female noun.

[DG]

Posted: 8/23/07 at 8:05pm

What I get a kick out of is his assertion that he has no acting experience.

Of course, that is tempered with the caveat 'on stage'.

[BigFatBlonde]

Posted: 8/23/07 at 8:13pm

LOL!!!

So true. He has been "performing" for years!

[DG]

Posted: 8/23/07 at 8:16pm

I have NO problem admitting that this 50 year-old with experience and talent makes me moist!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/24/07 at 12:11am

Ditto.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 8/24/07 at 10:31am

"Me and Mr. Jones."

[BigFatBlonde]

Posted: 8/25/07 at 6:11pm

LOL!