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Altanta Run

I'm back in Salt Lake City after a quick and fun run in Atlanta, GA at the 14th Street Playhouse. I was there for four weeks. This time the show was produced by Joe Spotts who also produces Emmy-nominated comic genius Leslie Jordan's "Like a Dog on Linoleum." I met some wonderful people in Atlanta. It was nice to see that the play resonates with Southern Baptists. The last time I was in Atlanta was 1989. I was there for 6 months as a Mormon missionary waiting for my visa to go to Portugal. It was nice to be in Atlanta on a different mission. My that city has grown since the 1996 Olympics! I was living in midtown, the heart of gay Georgia. I don't know if the boys are hotter in Atlanta or Chicago. Everyone sure is nice in Georgia. Next time I'll have to visit when it is not so hot.

I'm now back home writing and writing getting ready to do a reading of my new show MORMON AMERICAN PRINCESS at the Sunstone Symposium on August 12th. Sunstone is like a Mormon Fringe Festival. Next I do CONFESSIONS OF A MORMON BOY in Austin, TX at Arts on Real. I hear so many great things about Austin!

My play is being published by Alyson Books in October. You can buy it now at Amazon.com. Or wait to buy an autographed copy from me in the fall.

Oh! And I started a new advice column. It is published monthly in Salt Lake's oldest GLBT newspaper "The Pillar."

Atlanta Run

I'm back in Salt Lake City after a quick and fun run in Atlanta, GA at the 14th Street Playhouse. I was there for four weeks. This time the show was produced by Joe Spotts who also produces Emmy-nominated comic genius Leslie Jordan's "Like a Dog on Linoleum." I met some wonderful people in Atlanta. It was nice to see that the play resonates with Southern Baptists. The last time I was in Atlanta was 1989. I was there for 6 months as a Mormon missionary waiting for my visa to go to Portugal. It was nice to be in Atlanta on a different mission. My that city has grown since the 1996 Olympics! I was living in midtown, the heart of gay Georgia. I don't know if the boys are hotter in Atlanta or Chicago. Everyone sure is nice in Georgia. Next time I'll have to visit when it is not so hot.

I'm now back home writing and writing getting ready to do a reading of my new show MORMON AMERICAN PRINCESS at the Sunstone Symposium on August 12th. Sunstone is like a Mormon Fringe Festival. Next I do CONFESSIONS OF A MORMON BOY in Austin, TX at Arts on Real. I hear so many great things about Austin!

My play is being published by Alyson Books in October. You can buy it now at Amazon.com. Or wait to buy an autographed copy from me in the fall.

Oh! And I started a new advice column. It is published monthly in Salt Lake's oldest GLBT newspaper "The Pillar."

Atlanta Run

I'm back in Salt Lake City after a quick and fun run in Atlanta, GA at the 14th Street Playhouse. I was there for four weeks. This time the show was produced by Joe Spotts who also produces Emmy-nominated comic genius Leslie Jordan's "Like a Dog on Linoleum." I met some wonderful people in Atlanta. It was nice to see that the play resonates with Southern Baptists. The last time I was in Atlanta was 1989. I was there for 6 months as a Mormon missionary waiting for my visa to go to Portugal. It was nice to be in Atlanta on a different mission. My that city has grown since the 1996 Olympics! I was living in midtown, the heart of gay Georgia. I don't know if the boys are hotter in Atlanta or Chicago. Everyone sure is nice in Georgia. Next time I'll have to visit when it is not so hot.

I'm now back home writing and writing getting ready to do a reading of my new show MORMON AMERICAN PRINCESS at the Sunstone Symposium on August 12th. Sunstone is like a Mormon Fringe Festival. Next I do CONFESSIONS OF A MORMON BOY in Austin, TX at Arts on Real. I hear so many great things about Austin!

My play is being published by Alyson Books in October. You can buy it now at Amazon.com. Or wait to buy an autographed copy from me in the fall.

Oh! And I started a new advice column. It is published monthly in Salt Lake's oldest GLBT newspaper "The Pillar."

"Somewhere Over the Rainbow"

I am now somewhere over the rainbow...well I'm certainly not in New York City anymore. I'm in Salt Lake City. I just got back a few days ago after the run of a lifetime. It's heaven being with my kids...and yet I miss the City. I have a tradition with my kids here in the City of the Saints. On Sundays I take them to "Music and the Spoken Word", the longest continuous radio broadcast in history. For over 76 years the Mormon Tabernacle Choir has put on a show for the world at Temple Square. It is one of the great constants in the world. Every Sunday at 9:30, glorious music and pithy, benign sermonettes presented by "America's Choir." We go hear the choir and then go to brunch at the Market Street Grill. I believe in exposing my kids to Mormonism through the choir because it represents the very best of the people from whence we come.

So there we are at the Conference Center (the largest indoor religious facility in the world--you can check your facts on this) yesterday and the choir sings, for its final number, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." My son who is 10 leans over to me an whispers, "They're good, but not as good as Judy Garland." I responded with a question, "And do you know who her daughter is?" He answered confidently, "Liza Minelli!" Now that is a son of a gay man. He has earned his gay merit badge!

The last show I saw before leaving NYC was a new Off-Broadway one-and-a-half person play called "The Property Known as Garland." I enjoyed it and meeting Adrienne Barbou after the show.

If the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (with all its closeted gay members) can sing a Judy Garland song, there is hope in the world!

Long Island

Last night I spoke an event for Long Island Community Fellowship. I spoke to a mixed crowd of about 100 about overcoming spiritual abuse (SA). I used to try to overcome SSA (Same Sex Attraction). Now it's just SA. (Not to be confused with Sex Addicts Anonymous or Sexual Compulsives Anonymous...not that there is anything wrong with SAA or SCA!) Rev. Dr. Shane Hibbs is a dynamic leader there in Long Island. I really enjoyed getting to know him and his partner and the members of the fellowship. Fellowship is so important to a spiritual life. We cannot do it alone. We are looking at ways to bring me to Long Island to do my show. It was the first time I've been out of the city in nearly 5 months!

NY Outer Critics' Circle Award Nomination

I'm grateful to have been nominated for the NY Outer Critics' Circle Award for Solo Performance. I'm in good company--in the presence of some powerful shows and actors.

Dim Sum

Spoke at a service this morning on the Upper East Side. What a rainy day! Then went to Dim Sum in China Town with my good friend, Ira Gilbert. What a fun, new experience. Ira invested in my play and has been my dear friend since the Fringe Festival. He is an attorney at Paul Weiss. Then went to BJ's to walk the dogs. Then worked out (David Barton Gym). Everyone works out there. Quite social. Ethan Hawke was there today. So was Michael Lucas! I've made lots of friends there...but sometimes it's a bit intense. It's like working out at a club.

I've been to lots of theatre lately. "Sweeney Todd" last Wednesday, "The Wedding Singer" last Thursday, "Los Big Names" on Friday, "Bridge & Tunnel" last night. Seeing "Drowsey Chaperone" on Monday and "Light in the Piazza" on Wednesday. Trying especially hard to see all the one-person shows I can before I leave town on May 3rd. I plan to see Sandra Bernhard on Saturday, "Garland" and "JAP Chronicles" as I can.

Spending the night in tonight, trying to organize for the week. Just finished "I Am Not Myself These Days" by Josh Kilmer-Purcell (Brilliant) and will start "Son of Man" by Andrew Brewer tonight.

I have so much to do this week. One day and one thing at a time.

Soulforce

Last night I finally got to meet Mel White, founder of Soulforce! I met him at a fundraising event at BED (a fabulous club that is lined with canopied beds a la Miami South Beach). I was the auctioneer at the event where I sold "dates." It was my first time doing this. We had 11 guys that we auctioned off with tickets to shows. I got $750 for one guy. It was all in good fun and taste. We raised $2,600! The woman I sublet for, Lorna Kelly, was Southeby's first female auctioneer. She gave me lots of pointers and they all worked. Lorna is so extraordinary. She does tons of charity auctions and goes to India frequently to work with the poor. It has been such a blessing staying at her apartment during the run of the show. She is good friends with my friend, writer Andrew Harvey, who lives in the same building.

I've been adjusting to not doing the show. I'm feeling a bit more tired in the mornings than usual. Either I'm pregnant, or my body is finally saying I need to stop going at the furious pace these last 5 months have required.

The weather is so gorgeous. I find myself taking extra time to walk outside, especially near Central Park.

Gonna finally see some theatre now that my show has closed. Off to see the revival of Sweeney Todd tonight with BJ. (Hi, BJ!)

Soulforce

Last night I finally got to meet Mel White, founder of Soulforce! I met him at a fundraising event at BED (a fabulous club that is lined with canopied beds a la Miami South Beach). I was the auctioneer at the event where I sold "dates." It was my first time doing this. We had 11 guys that we auctioned off with tickets to shows. I got $750 for one guy. It was all in good fun and taste. We raised $2,600! The woman I sublet for, Lorna Kelly, was Southeby's first female auctioneer. She gave me lots of pointers and they all worked. Lorna is so extraordinary. She does tons of charity auctions and goes to India frequently to work with the poor. It has been such a blessing staying at her apartment during the run of the show. She is good friends with my friend, writer Andrew Harvey, who lives in the same building.

I've been adjusting to not doing the show. I'm feeling a bit more tired in the mornings than usual. Either I'm pregnant, or my body is finally saying I need to stop going at the furious pace these last 5 months have required.

The weather is so gorgeous. I find myself taking extra time to walk outside, especially near Central Park.

Gonna finally see some theatre now that my show has closed. Off to see the revival of Sweeney Todd tonight with BJ. (Hi, BJ!)