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Other groups favor a more active stance. At the AFSC, Jerry Herman, coordinator of the South Africa program for the committee, speaks of a "fall offensive" that his group will begin this September in conjunction with campus protestors. The AFSC will "take the issue to the people where they are: in churches, campuses, even businesses," he says. This fall, the AFSC will "take a more aggressive position, even to the level of civil disobedience, to promote their cause, Herman says...
Despite the success in recent months and positive prospects in the near future, next year will be a crucial one for the national divestiture movement. "We've grown tremendously over the past three years." AFSC South African coordinator Herman says, "But we need more...
...broad appeal of the show, which broke all house records during its seven-week trial run in Boston, is all the more extraordinary given its theme. Behind Jerry Herman's old-fashioned but tuneful score is a radical subject. La Cage aux Folles is a love story with a difference: it celebrates the romance of two middle-aged homosexual men, one of whom is a transvestite. Last year's Torch Song Trilogy, by Harvey Fierstein, was the first gay play to make it on Broadway, and La Cage, for which Fierstein wrote the book, seems almost certain...
...family, don't have to belong to heterosexuals," he says. "We decided early on that our greatest enemy would be the tendency to hide, to avoid being honest. If a gay show is a hit and doesn't make a statement, what's the point?" Says Herman, who also wrote the music and lyrics for Hello, Dolly! and Mame: "Writing for Albin was no harder than writing for Dolly. We just had to be true to character...
Unfortunately, La Cage is not always up to the level of its best performances or its best moments. Herman's music is better-than-average Broadway fare, hummable and with a simple, insistent beat. But his lyrics are often trite and vulgar. "Look under our glitz, muscles and tits," he writes in one song. Fierstein's book is sometimes forced; the campy scenes with the black maid/butler (William Thomas Jr.) quickly become tedious, for example Arthur Laurents' direction is occasionally jarringly awry, as when he has the mother of Jean-Michel's fiancee do a degrading...