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...most moving episode in A Chorus Line, and also the one in which the artists finally share their professional anxiety, comes with the song, "What I Did for Love." Paul (Wayne Meledandis) an ex-drag queen humiliated by his past, pulls a ligament in his knee and is carried off. The remaining dancers fall silent in shock: Paul's accident forces them to consider the instability of their career...

Author: By Jean E. Engelmayer, | Title: Soaring Chorus | 3/5/1983 | See Source »

...conjure up early Beatles movies. But perhaps the best song and dance, or rather song and swim routine occurs when Jackie is invited to Tony Lambert's all male gay pool party. The result is an Esther Williams synchronized swim number composed entirely of gay men, not quite in drag, but almost...

Author: By Kathleen I. Kouril, | Title: Punk Fluff With Spikes | 3/4/1983 | See Source »

...play is not so neatly consummated; the wedding at the end of The Marriage is director Scott Weiner's addition, borrowed from an earlier Gogol play, The Suitors. Gogol allowed Podkolyossin, still reluctant to marry, to escape out a window; Weiner has the wedding guests thwart his escape and drag him to the altar. The ending is more definite, and therefore more satisfying, particularly for the younger...

Author: By Margaret Gruarize, | Title: Match-Making | 3/3/1983 | See Source »

...surgical gowns from O.R.; neither the blandly frazzled Lieut. Colonel Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson) nor the avuncular Colonel Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan) will preside any more over that surgeons' battlefield. In the mess hall, the serving trays and cigarette packs are missing; Corporal Klinger (Jamie Farr), the drag queen of 4077, will never again ask Father Mulcahy (William Christopher) to give absolution to the food. The officers' club has been stripped of its jukebox and banners; only the lingering perfume of Major Margaret ("Hot Lips") Houlihan (Loretta Swit) will drive the ghost of Major Frank Burns (Larry Linville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: M*A*S*H, You Were a Smash | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

While others like Billy wait outside, Stewart Guernsey moves around in the basement downstairs. His faded blue overalls drag on the ground as he pulls out mattresses from a stack in the corner, sorts through bedding and organizes a staff of volunteers. With his unassuming manner and style of dress, few would distinguish him from the frequenters of the shelter. Even fewer would guess that he is a first-year Harvard Divinity School student...

Author: By Mary C. Warner, | Title: 'Stepping Into a Breach' | 2/24/1983 | See Source »

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