Out on Stage: August 2007 Archives

I'm sure the producers of "Hairspray" are just loving this.
Lance Bass, who they brought in to play Corny Collins in the Broadway production throughout the fall, talked to New York Magazine and does not seem very fond of The Big Apple.
It took three weeks, and three brokers, to find an apartment: “There’s a lot of pieces of crap here for a lot of money. And I don’t think anyone here has any style. I was looking at fully furnished places and it was like, you can either have a bunch of floral prints or some dusty couch from the 1960s.”
Poor Lance. Sounds terrible!
He's also apparently misunderstood and maligned by those mean New Yorkers: “My walking pace has picked up a lot...and apparently I’m ruder. I read that someone met me at a club and told me I looked great and I was like, ‘Don’t even think about taking a picture.’ Which really sounds like me. And then they printed a picture they’d taken of me, which makes even less sense.”
I don't know how he can endure all of these indignities. The man has been through HELL.

This, I gotta see!
Before heading to New York for an Off-Broadway run this fall, "The Sensuous Woman," a burlesque-style variety show written by and starring Margaret Cho, debuted last night at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s Renberg Theatre.
Cho says the show celebrates women’s bodies of all colors, shapes and sizes: “I have suffered from eating disorders and a horrendously distorted body image for my entire life, and I think the biggest reason is a lack of images of real women’s bodies. We are presenting a new ideal—not one that is about dieting ourselves down to a smaller size, but expanding our notion of what is beautiful and to allow ourselves to be included there, too.”
The Sensuous Woman will also be performed August 23, 24, 30 and 31; and September 6, 7, 13 and 15. All shows are at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25. All proceeds benefit the Center.
For tickets or call the Center Box Office at 323-860-7300.

Lance Bass will transform himself into the perky dance show host Corny Collins in the Broadway production of "Hairspray" starting Tuesday night and the intimacy of a theater vs, a stadium has him a bit concerned: "I'd much rather play to 50,000 people than 1,000," Bass tells the NY Daily News. "In a theater, you can see everyone! It is like doing a live TV show."
Bass tells the paper that his fears of losing female fans after coming out last year have proven to be off-base: "When I came out, my female fan base exploded."
Good luck tomorrow Lance. If ya get nervous, just imagine every one of those 1,000 people without any clothes on!