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GAY PEOPle's ChroNICLE
FEBRUARY 19, 1999
EVENINGS OUT
An award-winning tribute to dance taps into town
by Kaizaad Kotwal Columbus-The four-time Tony Awardwinning musical Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk is coming to Ohio to tap the soles of audiences' feet.
The show was conceived by Angels in America director George C. Wolfe and Savion Glover, considered the wunderkind of contemporary tap. Gregory Hines, a tap genius himself, has said Glover is the greatest tap talent alive today.
Bring in da Noise began as a workshop in the summer of 1995 at the Public Theater in New York and eventually made its way to Broadway in April of 1996, where it has been playing to sold out crowds since.
Wolfe, an openly gay man who has been a major force in theater in the past decade, said, “This show grew out of my idea of Savion as a living repository of rhythm. There are these old black tap dancers, who were taught by the old black tap dancers, and so on. All of those guys passed that information on to Savion, and it landed in his feet, and his being, and his soul."
Bring in da Noise is in essence a broad and swift retelling of African-American history. It is told through tap, an art form that has evolved and transformed with the ages. The two-hour show journeys from the earliest slave ships, to Southern lynchings, to the Harlem Renaissance, to Hollywood's portrayal of blacks,
to the tribulations of a New York University student trying to hail a cab. This show brings past and present together in a way that has helped transform the landscape of the Broadway musical.
The show is full of energy, vitality, thumping rhythms and soul in every connotation of its meaning. It also brought about a renaissance of tap, an art form that was dying and long seen as the terrain of
MICHAEL DANIEL
Derek K. Grant in Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk.
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Bring in da Noise is filled with a spirit of passing things on to successive generations to keep not only history alive, but also humanity as a whole.
"I love the phenomenon of that," Wolfe said. “If you can leap past whatever psychological or historical obstacles that keep you from drinking from the incredibly nourishing and replenishing water of one's history; you can do anything.
You can defy any level of structure. When you fully claim your history, you can soar."
Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk will be at the Palace Theater in Columbus for eight performances, February 23-28. For tickets or information call 614224-7654 or any Ticketmaster location.
The show also plays Cleveland, March 921 at the Palace Theatre in Playhouse Square. For tickets, call 216-241-6000.
Help from the stars, for finding and keeping a mate
Queer Astrology for Women
Queer Astrology for Men
by Jill Dearman
St. Martin's Griffin, $13.95 paper
Reviewed by John Baker
With Valentine's Day just behind us, there are probably quite a few guys and gals out there who are looking for every advantage available to begin a courtship with the honey they met on the annual day of homage to romantic love, or to continue to figure out the sweetie that Cupid's already blessed them with.
Author Kim Dearman has come to the rescue of lovers everywhere with her two new books, Queer Astrology for Women and Queer Astrology for Men. While Dearman freely
After a discussion of each of the signs, Dearman gets down to the business of discussing all the possible couple combinations of the zodiac. She lets these couples know what they can expect from their relationships because of their astrological proclivities.
For instance, a Taurus-Capricorn couple has a great potential to be together for years and years.
QUEER
admits that no two people of ASTROLOG QUEER
the same sign are going to be FOR MEN
exactly alike, she suggests that people should use one's astro-
logical sign as an archetype for predicting behavior, especially if you do not actually have the full chart of your intended.
JILL DEARMAN
The books begin with a comprehensive discussion of each of the signs. For example, under Aquarius, you can find out about Doing and Dating the Aquarian, The Aquarian in Bed, How to Dump the Aquarian, as well as more detailed information about the Decanates. These are the nine-day intervals which comprise the days allotted to Aquarius on the calendar.
ASTROLOGY
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JILL DEARMAN
For those who live and
die by their horoscope, this pair of reference works is not to be missed. Even if you are not a believer in the power of the stars, picking up one of these books is a guaranteed way to start a conversation, and just maybe give Cupid a nudge in the right direction.
John Baker is a Chronicle contributing writer in Austin, Texas.
If a 'gay gene' is found before birth, what happens?
Columbus If your parents knew everything about you before you were bornincluding that you would grow up to be gay or lesbian--would you be here? That is the question posed by the comedy-drama The
Steve Black
Twilight of the Golds, which will appear in Columbus at the Roth-Resler Theatre of the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Community Center.
All is well when Suzanne Gold-Stein and her close-knit New York family discover that she is pregnant. But a new prenatal test performed by her geneticist husband reveals some challenging information: The baby born will most likely be gay.
Suzanne's gay brother fights for the rights of the child as the news forces the entire Gold family to confront issues of bigotry, evolution and the limits of love.
Director Steve Black called the play "funny, thoughtful and eerily topical." "It has a lot to say about matters that are paramount to us today," he said.
Performances of Twilight of the Golds by the JCC's Gallery Players begin on Saturday February 27, with subsequent performances on Feb. 28, March 4, 6, 7, 11, and 13. For curtain times and ticket information, call 614-237-5223, ext. 260. The Roth-Resler Theatre is located at 1125 College Avenue in Bexley:
From Yassenoff JCC press materials.