As a kid, Phil auditioned for a local production of the story, and then through the theater met all the gay mentors and role models who would help him emerge from the closet.
"Finding the right theater for the art and for the number of seats and tickets you need to sell, and then having the theater be available, is the best scenario on Broadway".
So we finished the first song, maybe a 10-minute long song, and then half the theater got up and left.
Although he worked at a social service agency and then for the theater company, "I always had a connection to working in the ground," he said.
In an interview after today's vote, Mr. Yavlinsky also said that he believed that the police and security services feared an investigation would disclose that the guerrillas were able to enter Moscow and to stake out and then seize the theater only by bribing police officers.
And if there's no blood bath by the end of 'The Nightmare "Dream," ' a comedic mash-up of Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream" and Bram Stoker's "Dracula," then the theater troupe Bloody Shakespeare needs to get a new name.
And then the band marched out of the theater, through the stage door and into the warm Havana afternoon, still tooting their horns, dancers twirling handkerchiefs behind them.
After leaving the company, she formed the Body Voice Theater and then the Beverly Brown Ensemble, where she experimented with dancers' performing not only movement but also the natural sounds that accompanied much of her choreography.
We had workshopped it with theater actors, and then the big star said yes.
