...Christopher Durang Copyright © by yale/theatre 1976 1976 The Marriage of Bette and Boo by Christopher Durang CAST OF CHARACTERS THE MARSHALL FAMILY: BETTE MARSHALL MARGARET MARSHALL, her mother JAMES...

.... FIRST HOLY MAN: You bette' be able (They have forgotten AMERICAN FAIR) to run it all down, little mother, bette' have a game goin' for you, little mother, FIRST HOLY MAN: Don' be comin' we goin' ove'. Into the life. (Yanks down off the wall on to me. I'll eat yo' AMERICAN FAIR...

... Smith lay at her feet, Quentin Crisp watched Bette Bourne do the rumba, Eddie Izzard mumbled, Blue Man Group crunched, the Ghettoriginal crew claimed turf, John Zorn wailed on his duck whistle. The spaghetti dinners infused everything with garlic and puppet politics. Dumbtype methodically washed...

... Smith lay at her feet, Quentin Crisp watched Bette Bourne do the rumba, Eddie Izzard mumbled, Blue Man Group crunched, the Ghettoriginal crew claimed turf, John Zorn wailed on his duck whistle. The spaghetti dinners infused everything with garlic and puppet politics. Dumbtype methodically washed...

... aesthetic working toward that new aesthetic, citing staples of drag or female impersonation - value. In its lengthy Broadway run, Torch his “implosion” of form from within. Bette Davis, Tallulah Bankhead. Fierstein’s Song Trilogy has been championed by major Although Fierstein does incorporate a non...

...), Rory Pelsue (director), and Abbie Betts (stage manager). When I enter a room with more than two people in it, my head begins to buzz and I have trouble focusing on a single face for longer than thirty seconds. In rehearsals, masked and distanced in a West Village brownstone, I want to rip my mask off...

... of the stars’ deaths) and then murder them. For the nursing home’s unsuspecting inhabitants — who are plagued by health problems, overwhelmed by unfulfilled sexual desires, and forgotten by their relatives — a glamorous death as Bette Davis, Clark Gable, or Mae West inadvertently becomes the highlight...

... and Harpo, Tracy, Chaplin, Bogart, Brando, Nicholson -and some forceful women who unload the same mouth mannerismsover and over - Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Katherine Hepburn -also some exquisite pairs of eyes, lips, and breasts. But by and large American films have been grossly sexist...

... with the London drag troupe, Bloolips, to create Belle Reprieve, a four-part invention on A Streetcar Named Desire that bent, twisted, and exploded gender with its four-way conundrums: Was the scene between Blanche (played by drag queen extruordinaire Bette Bourne...

..., Román first reaches back to the eighteenth-century British stage actress Sarah Siddons. He playfully traces Siddons’s residue in performance from the Bette Davis film All about Eve through Pierce’s re-creations of Davis in his shows. The process...

..., Román first reaches back to the eighteenth-century British stage actress Sarah Siddons. He playfully traces Siddons’s residue in performance from the Bette Davis film All about Eve through Pierce’s re-creations of Davis in his shows. The process...

..., Román first reaches back to the eighteenth-century British stage actress Sarah Siddons. He playfully traces Siddons’s residue in performance from the Bette Davis film All about Eve through Pierce’s re-creations of Davis in his shows. The process...

..., Román first reaches back to the eighteenth-century British stage actress Sarah Siddons. He playfully traces Siddons’s residue in performance from the Bette Davis film All about Eve through Pierce’s re-creations of Davis in his shows. The process...

.... The players were Kent Broadhurst, Marcia Wallace, James Manis, Bette-Jane Raphael, and Jeremy.Stevens. In true improvisational'theatre tradition, the cast created its own skits. Jeremy Stevens staged them...

... swing open to A spotlight snaps on, and Bette Midler’s “The reveal moses and fdr, respectively. They deliver Rose” melodramatically underscores moses’ Oscar their lines straight forward to the audience. moment. Carnival music plays...

... was taken almost verba- suited to the role of Fo's Elizabeth as his spoken improvisations have served me tim from newspaper accounts of Italian fellow film star Bette Davis was to the well in translating their written texts. political scandals. Italian audiences movie version of the Queen's life...