Mae West: amNew York

Broadway After Dark - Theater
by Ward Morehouse III
Special to amNew York

_ MAE MAKES BROADWAY _
Plans are moving forward for Courting Mae West to open in a mid-size off-Broadway theater in March 2006. Based on the trials and tribulations that befell the actress during the 1920s -- when Mae was arrested and jailed for trying to bring two gay plays to Broadway -- the play features several characters modeled on real people: Beverly West, Texas Guinan, Jim Timony, Starr Faithfull, and others.
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"Corsets keep my breasts like the righteous," quips Mae in the hilarious opening scene, "in pain but uplifted."
- - printed in amNew York, Weekend, October 7-9, 2005 [page 20] - -
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