Comments on: Tout gai!

By: mrmyster

mrmyster — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:04:04 +0000

Well, I’ve been trying to forget it but haven’t
quite been able to!

By: taminophile

taminophile — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:35:08 +0000

How could you have all forgotten this one?

By: callasorphan

callasorphan — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:21:04 +0000

Why does that song from “Mame” keep going through my mind when I watch this little clip of Joan? I keep hearing “The man in the Moon is a lady.”

By: zurga

zurga — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:17:34 +0000

I remember seeing Margo MacGregor who supposedly was the inspiration for Madam sitting in front of the building where she used to live, which is located across the street from Annie’s Paramount Steak House in Washington DC were she was a hostess many years ago.

By: louannd

louannd — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:32:49 +0000

fantastic —– incredibly gay and fun!

By: Sanford

Sanford — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:50:49 +0000

By: Sanford

Sanford — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:40:53 +0000

I believe that’s Waylon Flowers and Madame!

By: Sanford

Sanford — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:38:36 +0000

One of my friends used to dance the Swan Lake with The Trocs.

By: belcore

belcore — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:23:37 +0000

I think this can participate, love them.

By: Cocky Kurwenal

Cocky Kurwenal — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:41:19 +0000

Glad you like it Brooklynpunk, I love this production of La Belle Helene too. I saw it at ENO when it came to the Colliseum, still with Felicity Lott but otherwise a different cast since it was, inevitably, in English, and after the performance I went straight to Tower Records and bought the DVD of the production in French. I’m not ashamed to say that I’ve watched it more than any other DVD I own, but I don’t think that would be the case if I hadn’t seen it first in the theatre and enjoyed it so much.

Incidentally, the ‘Culte de Venus’ pun in English became ‘Venus’s cult is full of joy and glee’, a most effective solution, I felt.

By: ilpenedelmiocor

ilpenedelmiocor — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 07:21:55 +0000

The initial still alone wins the contest for me

By: ilpenedelmiocor

ilpenedelmiocor — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 07:21:10 +0000

Was JUST gonna post “no gay friends”….

By: ilpenedelmiocor

ilpenedelmiocor — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 06:55:34 +0000

Budding SA recruit

By: ilpenedelmiocor

ilpenedelmiocor — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 06:04:50 +0000

Love June Anderson but the dress makes her look as if she’s going to a Halloween party dressed as an ejaculation.

By: ilpenedelmiocor

ilpenedelmiocor — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 05:16:48 +0000

Cue the industrial fans!
Cue the smoke machine!
Cue the pirate ship!

I trust the set designer (oddly enough, “Oberon”) got the German equivalent of an Emmy for this.

By: ilpenedelmiocor

ilpenedelmiocor — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 04:52:08 +0000

And execrable German to top it all off….

By: ilpenedelmiocor

ilpenedelmiocor — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 04:44:22 +0000

Coscia d’oro per davvero.

Let us not speculate about the metallic properties of other body parts.

By: ilpenedelmiocor

ilpenedelmiocor — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 04:40:00 +0000

Did they REALLY paint her hands blue?!?!?

By: ilpenedelmiocor

ilpenedelmiocor — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 04:38:00 +0000

What the hell did they stuff in there?

By: callasorphan

callasorphan — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:43:35 +0000

Now THIS is how I like my dance..

By: zurga

zurga — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:55:44 +0000

Ahh………………!
The glory of dance!

By: rapt

rapt — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:38:40 +0000

LaC, you are too clever by half (at least)!

By: La Cieca

La Cieca — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:05:39 +0000

“her mise-en-scene — by its sheer lunacy — had finally risen to her standard”

hee hee hee!

By: iltenoredigrazia

iltenoredigrazia — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:02:04 +0000

THAT is what opera is all about.

By: callasorphan

callasorphan — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 12:16:48 +0000

I never could resist Franco no matter what he had on (or off, hopefully)–a manly man with high notes–sigh, an opera queen’s dream!

By: brooklynpunk

brooklynpunk — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:49:10 +0000

Cocky:

Thanks for this posting… whenever I am ” down in the dumps” ( more ‘n more, lately, it seems…oh, well…)–I rely on viewing this particular production of “Helene” to snap me outta my “blues”…!!

By: Cocky Kurwenal

Cocky Kurwenal — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 10:38:21 +0000

And I never could resist Franco in his leather mini-skirt -- he faces the front and looks moody, Cossotto chews the scenery all around him.

By: Cocky Kurwenal

Cocky Kurwenal — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 10:29:49 +0000

This is both gay and gai, to my mind -- Je suis gai, soyons gai from La Belle Helene, complete with cheap pun on ‘Culte’, the fact that the lady he has come to steal is rather older than he is, and the fact that he is just having so much fun:

By: Ruxton

Ruxton — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:59:48 +0000

In the interests of humanity, I would volunteer to eat his lunch.

By: BETSY_ANN_BOBOLINK

BETSY_ANN_BOBOLINK — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:07:14 +0000

God1 “Welcome to Woop Woop.” One of my all-time great something or others. And not just for the erstwhile Mr. Applegate, although he figures into the equation.