Word: shubert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flit Guns. Cincinnati citizens turned the two-night extravaganza into a community project. The Minsky show was staged in the nearby Shubert Theater, and post-performance parties were thrown at the Gayety. Some 100 lady volunteers scrubbed away part of the Gayety's grime and even painted over the most unsavory washroom graffiti. Sixty years of libidinous musk was impossible to eradicate, however; before the opening-night party, Flit guns filled with Nettie Rosenstein perfume were distributed among the ladies...
Crowley, like the character of Michael in Boys, was brought up in a small town in Mississippi, where he saw many movies but no plays until he left at age 17. "To quote myself," he said, "'There was no Shubert Theatre in Hot Coffee, Msisissippi." (The line belongs to Michael in Boys...