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Faye plays two tapes, and Bipin is indeed on them. He tells Ellen he's going to drag her through the courts, she can't win, and she's going to end up penniless. It's sad, ugly stuff, but there is no physical threat. No reference to killing...
...Drag performances, from the late Charles Ludlum to Lypsinka, have a long, honored tradition in Manhattan's downtown theater scene. But this is a wig of a different color. John Cameron Mitchell, who wrote the show and does a smashing turn (accompanied by a grungy back-up band) as the fictional Hedwig, avoids high camp, low sex jokes and Judy Garland impressions. True, Hedwig's stage patter has its share of double entendres ("I do love a warm hand on my entrance"), but the literate script is also a poignant meditation on loneliness, gender confusion and the Platonic notion that...
...wanted to do something that was truly rock 'n' roll and truly theater." He teamed up with Trask, the leader of a band called Cheater, and the two developed the show in a series of downtown club gigs. Mitchell even passed up a role in Rent (as the drag queen Angel) to keep at it. After searching in vain for a theater, the show landed in a renovated ballroom at the Hotel Riverview, a flophouse near the Hudson River that once sheltered the surviving crew of the Titanic...
Currie has a record of squeezing through tight spots, which makes her a much more nimble character than the snapshots suggest. She is so modest she neglected to tell her classmates at a high school reunion what she does for a living. "You almost had to drag it out of her that she worked at the White House," says Waukegan Township High School classmate Chandra Sefton. She is so reserved that she often uses only facial expressions to reveal her opinions. She keeps her private life so private that some of her co-workers were not really aware...
Bagneris said men were not entirely excludedfrom the event. "I told my guy friends they couldcome if they came in drag," she said...