Along the way, it has acquired a handful of new commercial producers, including Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner, following in the footsteps of Oprah Winfrey and Rosie O’Donnell, celebs who put their names and dollars in service of the Broadway shows Now the show has settled in for a long run at a larger theater uptown in the arts center created by Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Chapman of three lesbian pulp novels published in the 1950s by the pseudonymous Ann Bannon, managed the tricky task of portraying sympathetically and realistically the lives of tormented homosexuals in the late 1950s while also slightly sending up the melodrama of it all. The play, an adaptation by Kate Moira Ryan and Linda S. The Beebo Brinker Chronicles for a limited run on a minuscule budget at a tiny theater in the East Village. Last summer the Hourglass Company mounted Leigh Silverman’s elegant staging of Chapman * Directed by Leigh Silverman * 37 Arts Theatre, New York City. The producing team includes Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner, Harriet Newman Leve, Elyse Singer, Jamie deRoy, Pam Laudenslager, Douglas Denoff and Double Play Connections.BEEBO BRINKER CHRONICLES * Written by Kate Moira Ryan and Linda S. In addition to Elbrick as Laura, Beebo Brinker Chronicles stars Jenn Colella High Fidelity, Urban Cowboy in the title role, along with David Greenspan Some Men ad Jack, Carolyn Baeumler Trouble In Paradise, Bill Dawes Gross Indecency, and Autumn Dornfeld The Graduate as Beth. Before they can reunite, they find themselves entangled in a web spun by Beebo Brinker, a butch denizen of the underground bar scene, and Jack, a flamboyant fop with caustic wit. Beth and Laura, secret lovers in college, still pine for each other. Chapman, Beebo Brinker Chronicles is based on Ann Bannon's groundbreaking lesbian pulp novels of the 1950s. The play is running through April 27 at 37 Arts, directed by Leigh Silverman.
Xanthe Elbrick, Tony Award and Drama Desk Award nominee and winner of a Theatre World Award for Coram Boy, will join the cast of the 2008 GLAAD Media Award winner Beebo Brinker Chronicles on March 25, replacing Marin Ireland.
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