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GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE July 18, 2008

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Storytelling in song

Garrison Starr, at left, perhaps the most underrated lesbian rocker on the scene today, will return to Cleveland for a concert benefiting the National Autism Association's Northeast Ohio chapter.

Starr's latest album, released at the end of 2007 on Media Creature Music, is The Girls That Killed September, a full plate of songs pairing her mellifluous voice with mostly stripped-down instrumentation.

Each of Starr's songs is like a short story; while the instruments are the narration, her vocals are the dialogue. She believes in saying something, not talking about saying it, and it works well for her.

If there is any complaint to be made about Starr, who is reminiscent of a one-woman, less folky Indigo Girls, it's that her voice is too pretty.

In some instances, as in "Stay Home Tonight," she might be well served by roughening up her voice, putting a little rasp in it, an edge.

However, letting any of the songs wrap around you with their lush sounds is simply sublime. "Spectacle" is almost a flashback to the days when terms like "college rock" meant something.

Garrison Starr will be performing with Todd Snider at the Beachland Ballroom, 15711 Waterloo Road in Cleveland, on Friday, August 1. Tickets are $30 in advance, $35 at the door. For more information or to buy tickets, go to www.beachlandballroom.com www.autismnortheastohio.org, or call 216-

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is gay-in fact, they both love the same woman—Brian came out early in his college career, and Dan shortly after. They both knew early on that they wanted to be thespians.

"Watching the Muppet Show every Friday night with the family and then acting out the entire episode with our stuffed animals... that may have been the first clue," they responded when asked how soon they knew they wanted to act.

The twins in Blood Brothers must be fraternal, since Dan and Brian look quite a bit different. Being brothers in real life makes it both easier and more difficult when they are cast in plays together.

"We make a great team...just like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford," one or the other said in an e-mail. "But with better makeup!"

It could have been both of them saying that they were apparently answering the e-mailed questions cooperatively.

In the course of their theatrical careers, they have been in 49 shows together, 18 of them professionally.

Both are members of Actor's Equity, the union of professional actors and stage managers so they should have known to heed W.C. Fields' warning not to perform seven of those shows with live animals.

In three of their productions, they have killed each other, and there was one in which their parents were the only people in the audience. That might have been a Muppet Show recap they didn't say.

Mercury Summer Stock is the brainchild of Pierre-Jacques Brault, an openly gay graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College's music theater department. He co-founded the theater ten years ago.

Blood Brothers runs through July 26, and performances are at 7:30 pm in the Parma Little Theater, attached to Parma Senior High School at 6285 West 54th Street. Tickets are $15, $12 for students and seniors. Tickets and information can be attained by calling 216-771-5862 or online at www.mercurysummerstock.com.

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