FLEET WEEK Performance added!!!!

Hey kids,

Here I am, pimping my tired old @ss out once more!

I'll be doing my best Paul Lynde meets Charles Nelson Reilly meets Roz Russell in the big gay extravaganza known as FLEET WEEK playing at the Lucille Lortel this coming August as part of the New York International Fringe Festival. If you cross ON THE TOWN with the Village People vehicle CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC, you get FLEET WEEK. Set during everyone's favorite seven days in NYC, FLEET WEEK explores through song and dance how gay marriage can actually aid in the war on terror. I play a flamboyant man of God...not the bad kind that end up in jail...the good kind that enjoy martinis and the Ethel Merman Disco Album!

We have fab performance times, which are conveniently listed below:

Friday, August 19th at 7pm
Saturday, August 20th at 10:30 pm
Sunday, August 21 at 2:15 pm
Tuesday, August 23 at 9:15 pm
Friday, August 26th at 4:15 pm

The Lucille Lortel, a glorious old off-Broadway house (yes...there's air-conditioning and pretty, comfy red seats!), is located at 121 Christopher Street, between Bleeker and Hudson. All tickets are $15. I strongly encourage you to buy them ahead of time. Tickets go on sale THIS Saturday and can be purchased one of two ways:

visit www.FringeNYC.org and select the date and time of the
performance of FLEET WEEK you'd like to attend
or
call 212-279-4488

I hope you all can make it. It should be a blast!

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Updated On: 8/25/05 at 11:51 AM

Green may work on Idina, my dear...but it's a bad color for you!

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Do they ever do shows at the Fringe Festival that aren't gay themed? Jeez

Never, Michael Bennett. Go look at the show breakdown.
It's gay gay gay!

Well...I did still have to audition...but I was kinda brought in late to the process. One audition and they handed me the part the next day! I guess things are looking up these days, ain't they?

In the cast is Melissa Hart (Tony nom for Georgy), Brian Golub (from the HAIR and CHESS concerts) and Micah Bucey (2004 Fringe Award Winner). The whole cast is pretty freaking fabulous!

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WOW, a TONY NOMINEE!!! There's some big elbows to rub.

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I saw Melissa Hart (fabulous) completely wasted in the absolute worst musical I've ever seen.

Not Lennon.

Now I think it's funny that just above this thread is the one about Michelle Federer as Elphaba - she was in that production of Sweeney with us also and she was so damned funny during rehearsals that I thought I'd p*ss myself a couple of times.

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Oh...I sure do! Whether it's blocked or not!

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with this fleet week thing, i just remembered this old couple i met, and they went back to nyc during fleet week to find the man's navy/marine/army/dont know hat which he left in a hotel room like 30 years ago, interesting huh?
sorry, that was a bit random...

I'll never forget my first fleet week in NYC - I was walking down Broadway across from the Letterman show, and there's this downstairs strip club (name eludes me at the moment) but there at the door were these two butch Navy dudes in their whites, smoking cigarettes and holding beer bottles in their hands - while directly across the street on the west side of Broadway there were these two mincing gay Navy queens (also in their whites) skipping down the street with their shopping bags full of Prada...It sort of summed it all up for me.

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I think stories about Fleet Week are very much on topic! Surely other's out there have some lovely anecdotes that are not too naughty to be shared on the boards - and that all brings more interest in seeing RobbieJ's show.

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Don't you understand, papa?? I'm doing all this to woo you back to NYC!!!

Have I mentioned there's some man-on-man action in this show?

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