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- From: adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: TORCH SONG (was Re: Effeminacy/Butchitude (was Re: discrimination at CMU))
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 00:15:56 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- References: <1eeb3fINNagb@mizar.usc.edu> <1992Nov19.022458.25965@netcom.com> <BxzuMz.KED@queernet.org>
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- In article <BxzuMz.KED@queernet.org>
- rogerk@QueerNet.ORG (Roger B.A. Klorese) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov19.022458.25965@netcom.com>,
- > jfh@netcom.com (Jack Hamilton) writes:
-
- Btw, bon voyage Jack! Did you enjoy the hat show
- while you were waiting to board your plane?
-
- > > The first production I saw, at Theatre Rhinoceros in San Francisco, was one
- > > of the first productions anywhere - I don't believe the last two acts had
- > > even been written yet.
- >
- > Then it wasn't TORCH SONG TRILOGY. It was THE INTERNATIONAL STUD. TST was
- > originally three separate one-acts; they were reworked for the three-acter
- > called TORCH SONG TRILOGY.
-
- Yes, that's true. I remember coaching a friend on his
- makeup and mannerisms (!!!) for a scene he did from
- "The International Stud". (Yes, he was in a college
- acting program. No, they didn't mind effeminacy when
- effiminacy was called for in a scene.)
-
- > Incredibly bad theater idea #267 was implemented by Boston's Triangle Theater
- > some time in the mid-1980's, when they decided to put on, under the name
- > TORCH SONG TRILOGY, not the edited play but the three original one-acts.
- >
- > Wake me when you're done, Arnold...
-
- Oh dear.
-
- Arne (who's never actually *heard* "wake me when you're done, Arne",
- but who's had people fall asleep on him)
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