Renee Fleming (seated) and Barry Banks (standing) … in the Met’s 2010 Mary Zimmerman Armida
[This caption by rysanekfreak replaces La Cieca's original, "So it’s agreed: Roberto gets the house in Monte Carlo; Angela gets custody of the gays".]
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Can everyone please leave? I want to use the bathroom.
Ned Rorem’s adaptation of “Over the Top” is certainly pushing the envelope in terms of pants-role casting.
Little Buttercup and Captain Corcoran get down to it in Francesca Zambello’s new production of HMS Pinafore.
Armwrestling for gel at the KYMCA.
And then, after you are a star, Bette, you can do that remake of STELLA DALLAS as you have always dreamed.
Mary Zimmerman wins strip arm wrestling contest by being heavy handed.
its PRICILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT-the opera, starring Roberto Alagna as the redneck aussie and Joan Sutherland in the Terrence Stamp role as the tough trannie
the winner gets his choice of boys
“I knew it was a mistake letting a dyke into our all-gay locker room arm wrestling competition!”
Please let me be one of the covers.