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Alan LaDuca presents Triumph of Love, his
passion-filled comedy mixing fast-paced
melodrama with modem humor and featunng
a gay character and a wonderfully supportive
mother giving a queer twist to a classic love
story, Aug 4-11 at various venues in Portland
and Gresham. (For times and locations call
503-981-2179.)
Arts Equity presents Steve Martin's Picasso
at the Lapin Agile extended through Aug. 11.
(Call for times. 606 Main St., Vancouver,
Wash. $10424 from 360-695-3770.)
Broadway Rose Theatre Company pre
sents No Way to Treat a Lady, a musical
comedy thriller about a publicity-crazed actor
turned killer who'll go to any lengths to get
a New York Times review, through Aug. 19 at
Deb Fennell Auditorium in Tigard. (Call for
times. 9000 SW Durham Road. $ 19426 from
503-620-5262.)
Masque Alfresco updates Modère s social satire The
Misanthrope through Aug. 26 in Lake Oswego.
CoHo Theater presents Border Crossings,
Rick Huddle's solo performance piece about one man travel
ing to Mexico and discovering his barriers for love, Aug. 16.
(8 pm. 2257 NW Raleigh St.)
a new generation of young performers, Aug. 17-19. (7 pm
Friday and Saturday, 2 pm Saturday and Sunday. 1819 NW
Everett St. $5 from 503-222-4480.)
Conduit Dance presents the West Coast debut of Gerald
Casel Dance with The Scheme of Things, a collection of three
contemporary pieces from the award-winning former Stephen
Petronio dancer, through Aug. 4. (8 pm. 918 SW Yamhill Ave.
77401. $13415 from 503-221-5857.)
Northwest Classical Theatre Company presents a free
production of William Shakespeare's As You Like It through
Aug. 11 at Terry Schrunk Federal Plaza and Aug. 18 at
Willamette Park in West Linn. (3 pm Saturday. For directions
visit www.nwctc.org.)
Horne Planet Productions presents Almost, Maine,
a "charming midwinter night’s dream" about a small, mythi
cal town where residents are falling in and out of love at an
alarming rate, through Aug. 12 at CoHo Theater. (8 pm
Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday. 2257 NW Raleigh St. $10-
$15 from 888-287-6318.)
Performance Works Northwest presents the fifth annual
Richard Foreman Mini-Festival—featuring a scintillating array
of theater, dance and media artists creating a piece in 10 days
by adapting text selected from avant-garde writer/director
Foreman's online notebooks—Aug. 17 and 18. (8:30 pm.
4625 SE 67th Ave. $15-$50 sliding scale for one night, $25-
$90 sliding scale for both nights from 503-777-1907.)
Key Turn Project presents The Distance Between Comfort
and Home, an evening of dance duets and live music with free
eats and drinks and fund-raising raffles, Aug. 10 and 11 at
Conduit Dance Studio. (8 pm Friday, 3 pm Saturday. 918 SW
Yamhill Ave. 77401. $8415 sliding scale from 503-984-2219.)
Lakewood Theatre Company presents Noises Off, a hilarious
comedy about the backstage antics of a touring theater troupe
in England, through Aug. 19. (Call for times. 368 S State St.,
Lake Oswego. $23-$25 from 503-635-3901.)
Masque Alfresco presents a free performance of The
Misanthrope, Moliére's social satire updated for modem audi
ences, through Aug. 26 at George Rogers Park Memorial
Garden in Lake Oswego. (6:30 pm.)
Northwest Children's Theater presents Summer Nights:
A Musical Revue, bringing the best of Broadway to life with
Portland Actors Ensemble presents a free production of
William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew through
Sept. 3 at a different park each weekend. (3 pm Saturday
and Sunday, 3 pm Sept. 3. For locations visit www.portland
actors.com.)
Studio 20 Entertainment presents The Code, an original play
by Kwik Jones, through Aug. 25 at Interstate Firehouse
Cultural Center. (8 pm Friday and Saturday, 3 pm Sunday.
5340 N Interstate Ave. 503-473-6649.)
Theater Theatre presents the premiere of lesbian playwright
(and recent Portland State University graduate) A.R. Jackson's
Lipstick and Other Cosmetics, a spoken worcUperformance art
piece that includes songs and monologues to describe the
journey of female sexuality in today's society, through Aug. 4.
(8 pm. 3430 SE Belmont St. $7410 from
971-235-4550.)
Theater Theatre presents Zombie Prom, an atomic
rock musical about a bad boy who returns from the
grave as a radioactive zombie hell-bent on taking his
best girl to the prom, through Aug. 18. (8 pm
Thursday and Friday, 8 and 11 pm Saturday. 3430 SE
Belmont St. $16 in street clothes, $12 in costume
from 503-970-9184.)
Theater Theatre presents a free staged reading of
Yelling at Bad Actors, based on a true story about a
junior college drama department struggling to mount
a production of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey
into Night, Aug. 11. (8 pm. 3430 SE Belmont St.)
Northwest Classical Theatre Company stages William
Shakespeare's As You Like ft through Aug. 18.
The Tragedies present.. And the Horse You Rode in
On! —a sketch show that parodies everything from
serial killers and MySpace to caveman politics and
big pharmaceutical companies—through Aug. 4 at
Crimson Theater. (8 pm. 700 NE Dekum St. $10 from
503-367-2100.)
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Kam Sisco (inset) plays an iron-fisted principal in the rock musical Zombie Prom.
Summer Camp
If you didn’t get your ’50s fetish filled with the recent hoopla over Grease— from Broadway’s TV
cattle call to Stumptown’s senior moment—then step back in your taffeta and follow director John
Monteverde’s musical theater cohorts to Zombie Prom.
This rock musical revives a B-movie doo-wop about biker and bobby-soxer separated by med
dling parents. When the bad boy crashes his chopper into a nuclear power plant, he returns from
the grave as a radioactive zombie hell-bent on taking girlie-girl to the big dance. Trouble is, Miss
Strict, the iron-fisted principal, won’t let the gangrenous ghoul back in school. But as a tabloid
reporter discovers, Miss Strict has a few skeletons in her own closet.
Imagine Night of the Living Dead meets Rebel Without a Cause in the drive-in days leading up to
Hairspray —except that John Travolta in a fat suit has nothing on our own wigged-out Kam Sisco,
a sweet fella with a real mean Strict.
To portray the ruthless principal, Sisco says he’s channeling his own third-grade teacher fed by
the quick wit of Eve Arden (who, incidentally, played the principal in both Grease movies). “Miss
Strict has suffered many disappointments and heartache over the years. She lives, eats and breathes
her job and expects nothing less than perfection from her students,” e-mails the equally industrious
43-year-old between day job and evening rehearsal.
Sisco is no stranger to padded-bra roles (Triangle’s Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, Psycho Beach Party
and Christmas with the Crawfords), although this Michigan native might be better remembered for
Classic Greek Theatre’s Orestes and Prometheus Bound. All of which is a departure from his original
University of Oregon music-major plans to become an opera diva, and even further from his more
straight-laced high school days when he went to his prom with (gulp!) a girl. But today’s openly gay
Sisco says Zombie Prom “definitely speaks to those who are considered ‘different’ in our community.
Our protagonist in the show is the zombie and we, the audience, want that zombie to be accepted!”
Can’t argue with that. Now if only they didn’t want to eat our brains.»..
Zombie Prom plays through Aug. 18 at Theater Theatre, 3430 S.E. Belmont St. Tickets are $16
in street clothes or $12 in costume. For more information call 503-970-9184 or visit
www.myspace.com/zombieprompdx .
—Timothy Krause