Welcome to the Archive Version of the online On the Purple Circuit, which ran from 2000-2021. Bill Kaiser founded the Circuit as a newsletter in 1991, and, in 2000, Demian joined as co-editor. Demian programmed the site, expanded the scope of the Circuit, as well as retouched all the images. Demian needed to stop working on the Purple Circuit in order to realize his other projects, such as publishing the book “Operating Manual for Same-Sex Couples: Navigating the rules, rites & rights,” now available on Amazon, and to publishing his “Photo Stories by Demian” books based on his more than 6 decades as a photographer and writer. QueerWise and Michael Kearns have committed to offering a continuation of the Purple Circuit. The new Web address is purplecircuit.org. Bill Kaiser continues as editor and can be reached at purplecir@aol.com Bill and Demian express their appreciation for the hundreds of writers, directors, actors, and publicists who sent their articles and play data. They have toiled mightily to bring our gay, lesbian, trans, and feminist culture into public view, and appreciation. |
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Los Angeles Scene by Bill Kaiser February 2006 |
It may be cold outside, but L.A. theatre is sizzling this winter. After Celebration Theatre opened Tom O’Neil’s “Judy at the Stonewall Inn,” and The Zephyr Theatre began its “Season of Shores” with Del Shores’ “Sordid Lives” and “Southern Baptist Sissies” could things get better? Since this is theatre, it could, and did. Fractured Broadway The new Valley Musical Theatre got off to a great start with two nights of fundraising with “Fractured Broadway” on February 20 and 21, 2006, at The El Portel Theatre in Noho. Executive director Ronn Goswick and his organization staged an intriguing evening with much gay sensibility and gender-bending. Headliners included Bruce Vilanch singing “When You’re Good to Mama” interspersing monologue jokes that could be in the Oscar telecast. Sam Harris belted out “Rose’s Turn.” However, there were no weak links in any of the singing which included “I’m Nothing Without You” with Misty Cotton and Julie Dixon Jackson, and “Sweet Transvestite” with Ruth Williamson.
For “It’s a Hard Knock Life” the orphans were played by hunky guys (some bare-chested): Shell Bauman, Lou Becker, Seth Belliston, Richard Bermudez, Chris Ciccarelli, Thomas Garcia, Matt Hoganson, Peter Beckett Kuhl, Robert Pieranunzi, and John J. Todd. The evening was about musical theater and if this show is any indication of the dedication and talent of this fledgling group, we are in for much enjoyment and entertainment in the future.
Other productions that are coming up are “A Picture of Dorian Gray,” a new musical adapted by Michael Michetti at Theater@ Boston Court in Pasadena, and “The Children’s Hour” at Celebration Theatre, more Del Shores trashy masterpieces at The Zephyr, and undoubtedly much more as Los Angeles truly is a theatre town. |