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Gay Peoples Chronicle
"LA CAGE" OPENS MARCH 5
"La Cage Aux Folles" Tony Award-winning Musical, comes to Cleveland's Music Hall on March 5-17 for two outrageous weeks.
La Cage aux Folles, the internationally-' acclaimed Broadway musical comedy that won six 1984 Tony
Awards including Best Musical, comes to Cleveland's Music Hall on March 5 17th for a limited engagement as part of its national tour.
Starring Feter Marshall and Keene Curtis, La Cage Aux Folles has music by Jerry Herman, book by Harvey Fierstein, direction by Arthur Laurents and choreography by Scott Salmon. Herman, Fierstein and Laurents, and costume designer Theoni V. Aldredge, each won 1984 Tony Awards for
their contributions to La Cage.
La Cage Aux Folles is presented by Allan Carr with Executive Froducers Fritz Holt, Barry Brown and Marvin A. Krauss, and Co-Producers Kenneth D. Greenblatt, Stewart F. Lane, James M. Nederlander and Martin 'Richards.
Based on Jean Foiret's long running French comedy La Cage Aux Folles opened August 21, 1983 at the Falace Theater on Broadway, where it continues to break box-office records, playing to enthusiastic, soldout audiences. The West Coast Edition of the musical played to critical acclaim and record audiences during the summer of 1984 in San Francisco, and is currently playing at the Pantages Theater in Los Angeles.
In La Cage Aux Folles, Peter Marshall portrays
Plaque Commemorates Don Keller
Lax has been given and life has been taken away. Life and death are one, even as the river and the yea are one. Death & waly a horizon and a hertzen is but the butt
of our sight.
Keller's mother attends the de-
dication ceremony honoring her
son.
Donald L. Kater
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Someday after
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the emerges
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the lstory of the world men will have discovered for. -Perre Telhard de Chandig
Teeraal.
-Chuck Back, 1974
Georges, the owner and emcee of the lavish St. Tropez nightclub "La Cage aux Folles". Keene Curtis portrays Albin, Georges mentor and the glamorous, flamboyant star of the nightclub.
Marshall is best-known as the host of the popular television game show "Hollywood Squares", but has previously performed in the broadway musicals Skyscraper, Bye, Bye Birdie and Anything Goes. Curtis played Daddy Warbucks in the musical Annie on Broadway and in Los Angeles
ay San Ecancone
Award for his performa-
nce
in the musical The Rothschilds.
Producer Allan Carr has won much acclaim for his many film productions including Grease, largest-grossing movie musical in film history. Although
A plaque commemorating Don Keller,
a victim of AIDS who died Feb. 11, 1984, was dedicated by fellow graduate students at the Weatherhead School of Management, CWRU, on Feb. 19.
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March 1, 1985
La Cage Aux Folles, for which he won the 1984 Tony Award for Best Musical, marks his first Broadway production, his love affair with the theater dates back to his early years in Chicage when as a young impressario he reopened the Civic Theater and presented Bette Davis and Gary Merrill in The World of Carl Sandburg, Eva LeGallienne is Tyrone Guthrie's production of Mary Stuart, and Tennessee Williams Garden District. Mr. Carr was Co-Producer of the Royal Shaespeare Company's recent Broadway productions of Cyrano De Bergerac and Much Ado About Nothing.
E.R.G.D.C. Changes Meeting Dates
The Eleanor Roosevelt Gay Democratic Club announces that its Executive Committee has voted to change the regular membership meeting from the last Monday of every month to the first Monday. The new schedule begins in April, with the general meeting scheduled for Monday, April 1, at Exedra. Ther will be no general meeting in March.
"Trimmings" Leads Bowling Assoc.
by Richard Tomei
The North Coast Bowling Association is rolling strong.
These are the standings as of February 10,
1985. THe first number represents wins, the second losses. Division A:
Trimmings
32 10
Richard Michaels
29 13
Waterstreet Dan s
23 19
Division B:
Fabric Showcase 38 4
Headhunters
28 14
North Coast KnightsI
26 16
Division C:
Water Myrnas
Muddy 12
Tomahawk
28 14
Fine E Z Pieces 25 17
Division D:
Sportspage
Soynas Girls
22 20
Exclusive Catering 21...21