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...ticket prices are preposterously high -- $100 for a seat up front -- and the evening is worth every precious penny. Say, if you will, that it's five $20 shows in one, and count the ways. Bette the incendiary torch singer, in fine voice at 47; her '70s classic Stay with Me is still a rhythm-and-blues catharsis. Bette the jaunty favorite of the dear departed bathhouse set, making Long Island jokes ("Hell's little theme park") and addressing her earlier fans: "I see we have our quorum of leather queens here tonight." Bette the Broadway star, fronting campy production...
Then, those to whom the gridiron torch had been passed lined up against each other, and Harvard Coach Joe Restic's last game against the Tribe began...
...equally gay and angry memoir of AIDS activist Larry Kramer, The Destiny of Me. A decade ago, the theater establishment collectively winced when its vital self- advertisement to Middle America, the telecast of the Tony Awards, opened with a best-play prize to the flamboyant Harvey Fierstein for Torch Song Trilogy. This year it seems likely that virtually every category may be won by shows with gay elements. Among the other contenders: Lynn Redgrave's one-woman Shakespeare for My Father, which alludes to the bisexuality of Sir Michael Redgrave, and the rock opera Tommy with its homosexual, pedophile uncle...
...acting, having won 26 Emmy awards and reigned in the Nielsen Top 10 for eight straight seasons. Yet Cheers' departure dovetails so neatly with the emergence of the show that will take over its time slot next season that the transition seems almost a generational passing of the torch. As the Cheers era ends, the Seinfeld era begins...
...goals and seven assists. Her 24 tallies puts her in at the number two spot in goal-scoring behind Holleran. Looks like another All-Americanesque year for Berkery who, in the last couple weeks, has been able to turn up the heat at just the right time and torch opposing defenses with no problem...