PRIDE GUIDE 1996 GAY PEOPLE's ChronICLE

B-31

Baddest of the Boys preview benefits Cleveland Pride

Cleveland Public Theatre presents Baddest of Boys by Doug Holsclaw, on the theatre's mainstage June 7 to 23. A June 6 preview benefits the Cleveland LesbianGay-Bisexual Pride festival.

"The first of the second-generation AIDS plays," this farce starts off with biblical nightmares and ends with a dying man's secret. In between, five people come to terms with death and dying, politics, art, fashion, recipes, lust, and love. Lenny Pinna

directs this off-kilter production chock full of mayhem and laugh-

ter.

Perry comes home

to his restaurant to die

in

peace, but with this

by Oscar winner Rob Epstein.

He is author of the plays Life of the Party, In the Summer When It's Hot and Sticky, Get Real, and Sin Sisters and the Plunge. He has written and performed three solo pieces, Don't Make me Say Things That Will Hurt You, Tattoo Love, and Pete in Paradise which he performed at Dobama Theater as part of the Performing AIDS conference in

"The first of the secondgeneration AIDS plays," this farce starts off with biblical nightmares and ends with a dying man's secret.

line up of characters he'd be better off at a three-ring circus. At this restaurant you'll find the waiters who call off dead, a Buddhist chef who seeks the secret of the chili, a co-owner who is an egotistical performance artist, a boy-toy AIDS activist waiter with multiple personalities, a pregnant doctor who is more creative than Martha Stewart and MacGyver put together, and a simple gay man that just wants his friend's last days to be tranquil. Baddest of Boys is ultimately a play about trying to maintain one's sanity in an insane world filled with tragedy.

Doug Holsclaw is a San Francisco playwright and solo performer. At the city's Theatre Rhinoceros he wrote for and appeared in the original production of The AIDS Show: Artists Involved with Death and Survival and co-directed (with Lenny Moss) its sequel, Unfinished Business. He also appeared in the Emmy-winning PBS documentary about the project, co-directed

February. He is currently associate artistic director of Theatre Rhinoc-

eros.

Director Lenny Pinna teaches acting and directing at Kent State University where he recently directed the Serpent and Lysistrata. He has

also directed for Cleveland Public Theatre's New Plays Festival. As a playwright, he has had workshop productions in New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Ohio. Pinna is also the resident dramaturg for the National Puppetry Conference at the O'Neill Theater Center in Connecticut.

Boys opens Friday, June 7 and runs Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 pm and Sunday, June 16 and 23 at 2 pm. Tickets are $12 regular, $8 for students and seniors, and $5. on Thursdays.

On Thursday, June 6 at 8 pm, there is a special benefit performance for Cleveland Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual Pride. Tickets for the event are $15, which includes the performance and a reception afterwards.

For more information and reservations, call Cleveland Public Theatre at 216-6312727. The theatre is located at 6415 Detroit Avenue.

Clyde Simon and Scott Dixon as two of the Baddest boys.

DAVID EGGERT

To you, it's taking up closet

space

...to someone else, it's dinner.

A little spring cleaning can go a long way to

helping someone in the community.

The AIDS Task Force is the primary organization in Cleveland to offer HIV prevention education as well as non-medical services to people living with HIV and AIDS. The Task Force offers support, from case management to counseling...even bringing meals to the homebound.

You can make a difference in someone's life, just by donating stuff you don't want anymore. The AIDS Task Force gets needed support, you get a tax deduction and more closet space.

Box or bag your unwanted clothing and call this number to arrange free pickup at your door: 523-8726.

CAROUSEL

DINNER THEATRE

Be a part of the Carousel's

Magical 1996 Season...

FUNNY

GİRL

September 11 November 3

May 22 July 14

Brigadoon

HELLO DOLLY!

July 17 September 8

M

Fantasy Spectacular

A Musical Extravaganza!

Proces

by the AIDS Task "Force to support

its programs

and services.

November 6January 12, 1997

America's Largest Professional Dinner Theatre

(330) 724-9855 in Akron (800) 362-4100 toll free 1275 East Waterloo Road • Akron, Ohio 44306