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New York theater nerds:

I'm embarking on an Oops All Theater 3-day visit to NYC next month. So far I have tickets to Titanique, Operation Mincemeat, and Kenrex.

Is there anything playing right now that I absolutely cannot miss? I still have the coveted Saturday matinee slot open, as well as all the times that are not traditional theater hours. I don't want to miss like a weird sleeper hit or something cool as hell that never came to my attention.

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Something Like a Theatre Column

I used to have a theatre column years ago and lord knows I don’t want another one, but over the last (and next) several days there’s so much going on that I’d like to see (and have seen), much of it starring friends and acquaintances, that I just felt the need to yelp about it. I’ve been dealing with the craziness of the last few months basically by burying myself in work which is very solitary.…

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What They Didn't Know

What they didn't know, is I had always been out there promoting myself, and emphasizing my best qualities and traits. And here are the receipts in this portfolio I had put together with my collected work from nineteen eighty-eight through nineteen ninety one.

Each entry was double sided in a page protector that was stored in a golden coloured binder that said "Trevor's Portfolio" on the front of it and on the spine, usually including the cover of the Playbill or program I was involved in, and then a collage or direct page from the program that highlighted my contribution to the production, and if I was allowed, a small biography. I was centering and bringing the focus to my experience even when I barely had any.

Boomerangst

"Trevor Brown (stage manager) is a recent graduate of The High School of the Performing Arts. This past winter Trevor was an intern for the Liberty Stage Company's production of S.J. Perelman's The Beauty Part working as script prompter, properties manager, and sound board operator. Trevor has also worked at The Houseman and is currently working at The Roundabout Theatre in the telemarketing department. Most recently Trevor stage managed the female version of The Odd Couple at the H.S. of the Performing Arts Senior Drama Festival. He also has a strong interest in dance having studied as a scholarship student at the Dance Theatre of Harlem."

This biography was from I believe my first time being a stage manager outside of school for The New Deal Theater Company's production of Boomerangst by Rita Nachtmann, in nineteen ninety-one. Now I can't recall how I got connected with the Artistic Director Carl Zeliger, but I think it was related to his being an alumni of Performing Arts, and I know this now from a quick Google.

I worked on the production with my classmate Winnie Lee, I don't recall a lot about Winnie but I do remember that I liked her and was quite fond of her, and I think she was an art major. We had worked on some school productions together also, so this was just old collaborators coming together again.

Beyond that I recall nothing about the production other than I think I had a mild crush on Carl, I think it had to do with the fact that he was very caring and attentive adult figure, and at this age I didn't get a lot of positive male interaction. If my math is correct he was in his early thirties at the time, so I am sure he was very handsome also. I like to emphasize that Mr. Zeliger was NEVER inappropriate with me, I was an eighteen year old who caught feelings, nothing that was ever verbalized or reciprocated.

What I also love about my biography specifically, is it shows you how committed I was to being a stage manager, I had several internships and had worked on at least five different productions by the time of this particular bio. I was on my grind, I did all of that on my own. I may have had teachers at school help to make connections, but I was the one who followed through, and landed the positions. My drive was always there, even at such a young age, and I would like to congratulate myself for such amazing focus and passion.

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At sixteen years old I was a featured entertainer at the UJA benefit at FAO Schwartz. Now I can't remember how I got this opportunity but obviously think it was somehow related to Performing Arts, because that was how I was billed, with an obvious misspelling to my name.

I think I got a little honorarium of maybe seventy-five dollars or something, I was sixteen, this was a lot for me, but I was just excited to be "performing" at FAO Schwartz. I put performing in parenthesis because I was sort of a wedding dancer, there to encourage other people to dance, while I danced along with them.

I did start in the Arts & Crafts corner but ended up closer to the DJ and the music as the evening went on. The only thing I would have liked to change about it all was either having a shirt to change into or maybe a handkerchief to wipe up all the sweat I accumulated from dancing for hours. I think they did make me take some breaks, because if left to myself I would have danced all night.

How I got home, I can't recall, but maybe they sent me home in a car, I was a minor after all, and this event went to midnight. It was fun, I was so sad when FAO Schwartz shut down, they just had such a superior toy experience.

The Beauty Part

Liberty Stage Company's production of SJ Perelman's The Beauty Part at UBU Repertory Theatre in January of 1991. This was the production that I interned on as the script prompter, property manager and sound board operator, I mean I was free help so they used me for everything.

Once again I have no recollection of the actual production. The reason I included this one because I met someone who would change the course of my life, Ari Warshawsky, who was the light board operator. Since we were on sound and lights respectively, we sat very close to each other and obviously became quite friendly. I had applied I think to four different colleges, lets see if I can remember them all. SUNY Purchase, Skidmore, Hofstra and Ithaca College.

My dad failed gym in high school, I am not sure if he ever matriculated. And I recall my mom saying she only made it as far as I think the ninth grade. My paternal grandmother wouldn't get her associates degree until she was well into her forties, so I wasn't really well-versed on anything about college other than it was expected you go there after high school.

Ari was attending Ithaca, which due to its distance my grandmother and I hadn't visited like we did SUNY New Paltz which I ruled out just for how dingy the campus looked. But Ari was going on with how good the theatre program was at IC, and I did want to pursue stage management more formally. I think at the time Ari wanted to pursue front of house work and was attending for that program.

I would end up attending Ithaca College for about three semesters before dropping out. I was homeless and financially strapped, and just thought it ultimately best to get out in the world and pursue my dreams. Ari and I became more friendly in college, had one hook up, and just went back to being friends. He also realized he was gay, and no Mary, I didn't make him gay. My being myself may have given him permission to be gay, and I was happy for him.

The only other thing I can recall about the production of The Beauty Part was that I had a crush on the artistic director Laurence Gewirtz, now Laurence was a bit older than Carl, but also very attentive and kind, this is something that would later get me into inappropriate relationships just because someone had shown me attention. My self esteem wasn't where it would later be.

The one thing I remember about Laurence was that he was very very thin and wore the tightest jeans, I can recall quite often checking out his butt which was often on display. Once again Mr. Gerwirtz was never inappropriate, just my eighteen year old imagination and hormones running amok.

I just sent the program cover and my little made-up page to Ari, who it seems I last spoke to very briefly in two thousand nineteen. We were friends for a little bit in the mid nineties, had a small orgy with my friend Tim who he was really into. And then sort of just fell out of each others lives. I can't remember any spats or disagreement, but looking at how short the interaction was in nineteen I have to wonder if there's something up that I am not aware of. Frankly I don't really care, we weren't ever very close. I have no beef with Ari and never did, so his loss.

Nostalgia doesn't seem like the right word about my feelings about this portfolio. I feel like affirmation is better, it just affirms that I have always been who I am, using everything within my means to make sure I always appear in the best light. I would get a certain amount of hateration during my active artistic years because I was very good at self-promotion, but just like any potential ill-Ari feelings, I wasn't studying any of those folks like that. God blesses us each with different talents, its up to us to utilize them or loose them.

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O’BRIEN It was far more stylized when we first started. The movie turned Frank-N-Furter glamorous. He wasn’t. We weren’t. It was much more expressionistic, you know, ghoulish, more gothic in a sense, and dirty, perhaps. But the weird thing was that this creature [Frank-N-Furter] would strut down the aisle and the women in the audience found him attractive. That was a change in social understanding, because that was a surprise to all of us as well. And not only that, the chap sitting next to the woman would go, “I see what you mean.”

CURRY I wasn’t skin-deep gorgeous. I was gorgeous in attitude. And I was gorgeous, I think, in a certain kind of courage. It took a certain amount of courage to do the show in the first place, let alone translating it to New York. But then I started going to Elaine’s, and that was my shelter. I used to go up to 88th Street and hide at Elaine’s and eat the veal chop.

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50 years ago today, the 10th of March 1975, The Rocky Horror Show officially opened at the Belasco Theater on Broadway. Having started life in London before transferring to The Roxy in Los Angeles, the show did not find its audience in New York and closed just one month after opening on the 6th April 1975.

Tim, Richard O’Brien plus director Jim Sharman and producer Lou Adler have spoken to the New York Times about the experience in depth for the first time and you can read it here: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/theater/rocky-horror-show-broadway-curry.html

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Went to see this last night in Houston. Enjoyed it VERY much. Does that make Me a bad person?

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2 Chekhov Plays

GET TICKETS DIRECTOR: John DeBenedettoCAST: Jonathan Beebe, Kate Jergensen, Natasha Sahs, Devon Lawler, Octavio Vourvoulias, Harry Cooke “A

Come one come all to some Chekhov this cold Q1! 🎭