Daily Nebraskan
Friday, March 6, 1987
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A scene from "Torch Song Trilogy," which opens tonight in the
6TofcIi oBg T:
Tony -winning play
By Charles Lieurance
Senior Reporter
When Harvey Fierstein's play
"Torch Song Trilogy" first
opened on Broadway in 1983,
it was a definite underdog, a play that,
dealt openly and honestly with homo
sexuality and gay culture. The play is,
by turns, devastatingly funny and dev
astatingly sad. But when Tony-award
time rolled around, "Torch Song Tril
ogy" took multiple honors, Fierstein
became a young, witty celebrity and
the pJay was no longer just notorious
it was deservedly popular.
The UNL GayLesbian Resource
Center will perform "Torch Song Tril
ogy" tonight and Saturday night. It is
the first time the organization has
presented a theatrical event and,
according to Kevin J. Jones, who plays
the lead role of Arnold in the play, it
probably won't be the last.
"It is the beginning of an effort by
Gay and Lesbian Student Association
to start a gay and lesbian theater group
at UNL," Jones said.
"Torch Song Trilogy" deals with
Arnold's initiation into the gay culture,
Entertainment short
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will be performed Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
at the State Museum of History, 15th
and V streets. As part of the exhibit,
"For Your Musical Enjoyment," museum
staff will play some of the music
machines on display. Visitors will hear
chirping from the Victorian "singing
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commentator. Arnold is based on Fier
stein himself, Jones said.
The resource center began rehears
ing "Trilogy" Feb. 1 and since then,
Jones said, preparations have been "hit
and miss." Still, Jones is optimistic.
"Things have been rough sometimes,
but it's held together," he said.
The play is being produced rather
informally. It is being staged in the
Theater Preview
Nebraska Union ballroom, and the cos
tumes come from the performers'
wardrobes.
"The union ballroom stage is a small
space and we're sort of hiding things
everywhere to make room," Jones said.
"As for the costumes, we get an idea of
what the color scheme should be and
then we hope we can match that from
our own wardrobe."
Other members of the cast are Chris
topher Grolitzer as Ed, Katie Boner as
Laurel, Scott Campbell as Alan, Rita
Vermeulcen as Ma, Joel Cason as David
birdcage," tunes cranked from the
Gem Roller Organ, a rendition of "At
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Union Ballroom at 7:30 p.m.
and Mark Withrow as the drag queen,
"Lady Blues."
The drag queen originally was played
by a woman on Broadway, Jones said,
but was changed to an actual drag
queen for this production.
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of what the woman actress was sup
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Jones says he sees no problems from
performing the play on a campus where
the GLSA has been a controversial
organization.
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it should draw people out of curiosity."
Gene Guenther directs the play,
which is financed in part by a grant
from the Lincoln Arts Council.
Tickets are $4.50 for students
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Poets to read in union
By Charles Lieurance
Senior Reporter
The extent to which female poets
have breathed a new life into 20th
century American verse is nearly
immeasurable. Diane Wakowski, Sylvia
Plath, Maxine Kumin, Adrienne Rich,
Anne Sexton and Audre Lord have been
responsible for whole schools of poetry
and for opening the doors to a greater
emotional honesty and freedom in litera
ture. This year's Women's Week activi
ties celebrate the role of women in
poetry on a local level.
Women's Week, sponsored by the
UNL Women's Resource Center, fea
tured a nationally known poet from
Oakland, Calif., Judy Grahn Thursday
night. Grahn's poem "A Woman is Talk
ing to Death" was the American Poetry
Review's best poem of the year in 1979,
and her new book of poems is "The
Dissent to the Roses of the Family."
Tonight at 6, the Women's Words and
Music Committee is presenting coffee
house in the Nebraska Union Crib. The
coffeehouse will feature published
Lincoln poets Lori Allison, Twyla Hansen,
Lis Banset, Pat Dean and Amy Koch.
Koch is a UNL English and German
major whose poetry has been published
in the Nebraska Writer's Project's Plain
songs, the Scrivener, Elkhorn Review
and Nebraska Review. Koch has read
for several workshops and seminars
with noted Nebraska poets William
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She considers her poetry "Autobio
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Hansen doesn't consider herself a
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"My poetry is mostly in a narrative
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Dean is featured in the anthology
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Allison is a German major at UNL
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new Lincoln band New Brass Guns.
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