Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 2001)
October 5. 2001 » DIVERSIONS ▼ H e r e s h e is a g a i n i , ■■■ PHOTO BY MARTY DAVIS ate Shindle joins Danny Vaccaro, ; Pam Mahon, Liz Keever, Michele , Mariana and cast members from Gypsy for the Oct. 15 benefit show' Broadway on Broadway: Cabaret for America. The troupe will perform show tunes during the first part of the evening, then it’s audience participa tion time for all-Broadway karaoke. So if you ever wanted to sing a duet with Miss America, head over to Embers Avenue, 110 N.W. Broadway, and she’ll even pose for photos with you while you try on her crown! The event benefits three charities: Broad way Cares/Equity Fights A ID S; Cam p Starlight, for children with A ID S; and Stonewall Community Founda tion, for victims of the Sept. 11 tragedy. The host will he Andy M an gels, with piano accompaniment by Rob Hathaway, Mr. Oregon State Leather 2001. Doors open at 7:30 p.m., and the show starts at 8. Tickets are $5 at the door and limited to the first 300 fans. Oct. 13 to 20. For tickets call 503-222-5538. After the run of show the artwork will go on sale in the Oregon Ballet Theatre lobby, 818 S.E. Sixth Ave., with half of the proceeds benefiting OBT. Bang th e drum g a ily f you’ve got rhythm, try it out from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Oct. 12 during the first-ever Queer Taiko Workshop presented by Portland Taiko, which hills itself as “40 percent queer.” The Asian American drumming group is a leader in promot ing gay visibility and performs at Pride functions every year. You do not need to be Asian to partic ipate, nor is drumming experience necessary; just wear comfy clothes and he ready to make noise. The venue is the group’s Northeast Portland rehearsal space, and the cost is $35, which will benefit an upcoming trip to Japan to study Taiko at the source. To register contact John at 503-674-8184 or johnmcqueendavid@cs.com. Go on a B e n d e r : entral Oregon is especially delightful at this time of year, so consider a road trip to Bend I for the “Family” Celebration, featuring a bar becue and improvisation show in Aspen Hall at Shevlin Park. Sponsored by area gay and lesbian groups, the picnic will spotlight musician Joyce T h e r e s h e is ■■■ A r t off t h e d a n c e no o f the many pleasures in Portland C en ter S tag e s new production o f the classic Broadway musical Gypsy is Kate Shindies thoughtful and touching performance as the young Gypsy Rose Lee. Just watch the way she uses her body to manifest her characters interi or life and explore the transformation from awkward tomboy to glamorous sex symbol. Sh e’s got a nice ass, tixx Portland audiences will recall Shindies perfonnance as Sally Bowles in the touring pro duction of Cabaret, hut gay people will especially remember her for her A ID S activism as Miss America 1998, a cause she is still passionately committed to. Moreover, in an effort to not dis appoint her gay friends and fans, she single-hand edly persuaded pageant officials to eliminate the rule that only children can try on her crown. Shindle believes Miss America 2001, O re gon’s own Katie Harman, could also prove to he another “wacky” free spirit. We can only hope. Speaking of gay fans, the opening night of Gypsy was a pretty gay affair itself with the Portland G ay Men’s Chorus providing the preshow entertainment and the Rose City Gay Freedom Band playing afterward. Many in the ona Cordell is an artist who works in c coal and acrylics. Always drawn to movement, she likes to paint fig ures and used to hang out at Conduit dance studio. Then she got the bright idea to see if she could observe dancers at Oregon Ballet Theatre. Artis tic director James Canfield invited her to watch rehearsals and sketch the dancers, an experi ence she found enthralling and inspiring. Cordell then proposed to him to document the entire rehearsal • Respess and offer fun and games plus a gourmet process for his new ballet, Lady Lucille and the menu from Headwaters Cafe. The festivities start Count, an edgy retelling of Dracula from Lucy’s 2 p.m. Oct. 21 at 18920 Shevlin Park Road. Just point of view. “James and 1 have similar patterns $10 gets you in; kids younger than 12 are free. of creating,” she explains, “trying Then stick around for Western WYMPROV! ideas, then erasing them and trying something else.. .an awareness of neg The Big Round-Up, as the Eugene comedy troupe performs 7 p.m. in Aspen Hall at Shevlin ative and positive space.” Park. This Evening Cabaret for adults 21 and Cordell, who has the ability to older includes appetizers plus a beer/wine cash capture the essence of things in a very bar. Tickets are $10 from 541-385-3320. few lines, begins by making hundreds of quick sketches in the rehearsal hall. In an unusual twist, as she draws she also makes an audiotape of everything A decade of so m e th in g going on during rehearsal, which she w o rth w a tc h in g then replays as she paints to rekindle he PBS gay and lesbian newsmagazine In the the spirit of the dance studio. The Life celebrates its 10th anniversary with a resulting drawings and paintings, c - profile of composer Billy Strayhom, a look which she describes as “all over the at art in the age of A ID S with color spectrum," will author Edmund White, some he on display at Keller social commentary from Marga Auditorium during the Gomez and a report on the state run of the show. of gay theater. Also look for a Cordell hopes to continue this story on Lesbians for Liberty, a prcKess all season and have group of loyal fans who want the another show documenting C an New York W N BA team to field’s Signatures piece. “I want to acknowledge its dyke fan base. educate the public about how an Catch this fine show 11 p.m. artist gathers material for her Oct. 15 on OPB. j n work,” she explains. Oregon Bal let Theatre presents Serenade and Compiled by O R1AN A G REEN Lady Lucille and the Count ^ om Edmund White ¡ ilium Mona Cordell captures fleeting images audience tix>k Portland Center Stage’s sugges tion tti wear “black tie and boas,” although some people still insist on showing up in clothes more suitable for washing their cars. Yours truly was the only audience member, however, in black tie and a boa. Figures. Everything’s coming up roses through Oct. 21 at Newmark Theater. C all 503-274-6588 for tickets. — Marc A cito What's popped and what's flopped, in a theator near you. dud, bottom of the bag only if you're really hungry Q*> <2^ good effort, pass the salt <Q£> <£> (Qy> < 3 ^ mmmm, tasty! get the big tub o’ com <gi <£> T he A dventures of F elix A young m an takes bein g laid o ff as an opportunity to h itch h ik e his way across France in search o f his absent bio logical father. A s Felix com es across figures who are m etaph orically his “ lit tle brother,” his “gran d m oth er” and his “co u sin ,” it beco m es an en gagin g, p as toral excu rsion in to the relation sh ips o f th e v ast e x te n d e d fam ily th at is hum anity. — Christopher M cQ uain H aiku T unnel A laugh riot about a tem p w ho goes “perm .” C on siderin g it’s set in S an Fran cisco, the film has advanced gay sensi bility: A m ale secretary hooks up with a security guard w ho reads Soldier o f For tune, and w riter/d irector/actor Jo sh K o m b lu th som eh ow lin ks speaker phones with lawyers who are insecure about their heterosexuality. —Jim Radnsta <g> H earts in A tlantis A turtle-paced, con tem plative com - ing-of-age story set in a low-rent part o f C o n n ecticu t in 1960. Bobby is a fath er less 11 -year-old w ho latch es o n to A n th on y H opk in s’ m oody character as a lifeline to pull him out o f neglect. N o gay con ten t, but a bittersw eet portrait o f prepubescent m ale angst. U nansw ered questions and an oddly detached tone dim inish the pow er o f the story. — O n ana G reen T ogether Sw ed ish w riter/director L uk as M oodysson captures the ups and dow ns o f com m unal living in the 1970s. T h e house is filled with A b b a music and se x ually p ro v o cativ e ch aracters: A n n a , who seduces recent divorcées by invit ing them to m editate with her, and her ex-husband, Lasse, who is pursued by a charm ing guy nam ed Klas. -JR
