Archive for June, 2010
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Wednesday, June 30th, 2010You know you’ve arrived when a high school student asks you for permission to do a scene from your show in his forensics competition. Well, this fine young man did just that. He took a few liberties (okay a lot of liberties), but he won the NFL competition in Indiana. How cool is that?! So [...]
“Fifty Percent” from Ballroom
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Here is a song I gender-bend in my cabaret act Mormon American Princess. Think of marriage equality as you listen. I cannot post myself singing this song and not give credit to the great Dorothy Loudon who put this song on the map.
The Tyra Banks Show
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010I was on the Tyra Banks show. Sigh. Let’s just say that by the time I finished watching my story, I didn’t recognize it. You would think that I had survived Auschwitz or Dachau. Still it is good to remind myself that those who recommended I undergo Reparative Therapy would have sent me to Auschwitz [...]
Barats and Bereta
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010I’m putting in a good word for “The Good Word.” As a former missionary who went from door to door, I never went to these extremes. But I certainly thought about it! Thanks to one of my friends on Facebook for sharing this with me! And don’t forget to come see MISSIONARY POSITION this summer [...]
Julia Cameron and “The Artist’s Way”
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010I first met Julia Cameron after a matinee of Confessions of a Mormon Boy during the Off-Broadway run at the SoHo Playhouse. I greet the audience after every show so it’s usually pretty easy to meet people unless they dart right out of the theatre during the curtain call. Julia was one of the last [...]
Optional Artwork for MORMON BOY
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010This was one of many ideas we had for the marketing of CONFESSIONS OF A MORMON BOY. Maybe someday we will use it. But in the end, after all the many ideas and renderings we came up with, we went with what worked the best: the double image you see today. If it ain’t broke, [...]
Spiritual Abuse (Religious Violence)
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010From the Introduction to Confessions of a Mormon Boy: Behind the Scenes of the Off-Broadway Hit What is becoming evident to me is that my work doesn’t just speak to Mormons or gays. As I’ve written specifically from my queer Mormon point of view, the play seems to be landing universally. It plays as well [...]
“Crystal Meth Meltdown” from CONFESSIONS OF A MORMON BOY
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010This is one of the more harrowing scenes from CONFESSIONS OF A MORMON BOY. Please do not try crystal meth. It is highly addictive and can significantly diminish the quality of your life and rob you of your your health, your relationships, your career, your sanity, your teeth! I have had to get help for [...]
I Love Vasco de Gama. Viva Portugal!
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010I went on my Mormon mission to Portugal. I wrote Missionary Position: A Coming-of-Age Tale as a partial tribute to Portugal and a very important, unforgettable chapter of my life. The ULTIMATE study abroad program! Here is a video to a popular song called “Conquistador” by a group called Da Vinci that was hot when [...]
“According to Mormon mythology . . . ”
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010From Introduction to Confessions of a Mormon Boy: Behind the Scenes of the Off-Broadway Hit According to Mormon mythology, God has smiling, becoming children populating other worlds He has created all over the universe. Mormon founder Joseph Smith once taught that the Moon was populated by Mormons. (Not to be confused with the Moonies.) I’ve [...]
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