The Just Above Midtown Gallery (JAM), a crucial New York institution of the black avant-garde, was instrumental to the careers of a number of them, including Lorraine O'Grady, whose sardonic pageant gown made of countless white gloves — the artist wore it in guerrilla performances at gallery openings — is a wonder.
The relocation of the Miss America Pageant, whose abandonment was once feared as the final nail in Atlantic City's coffin, was welcomed by the casino operators since pageant guests took up many hotel rooms but gambled very little.
Parade, a type of pageant whose main feature is a public procession.
(Uncle Arms wants to bolster his own pageant, whose winners are predicated on the amount of misery they have sustained).
"Women Without Men" conveys the slightly detached formality of a pageant, whose four main characters, Iranian women from different classes and backgrounds, have more symbolic weight than flesh-and-blood reality.
The company's anniversary production is Love's Labour's Lost, which Rutter directs and also acts in, playing the wannabe thespian Holofernes, whose self-produced pageant of The Nine Worthies so spectacularly falls apart in the final scene.
This "Three Musketeers" is really a cinematic pageant whose tepid swashbuckling and glamorous costumes (by Pierre-Yves Gayraud) are likely to inspire lavish children's dress-up games, if parents can afford to buy the fake swords and expensive fabrics required to ready little ones for 17th-century combat.
In addition to performing, I emceed the Mr. & Miss Kalamazoo pageant, whose winner, LeDonna Devine, told me that they had only been having their outdoor festival for four years.
It works well as a goal for those competing in pageants, whose professions are on screen and in magazines, whose lives revolve around being admired and scrutinized primarily for their physical beings.
There is one mother-daughter pageant pair whose business end is a four-year-old named Emily; two actresses named Jordan, one of them eight and the other fourteen; and a thirteen-year-old singer named Shane, who hopes to become an "international star".
