• • The event's board of directors met and approved the director's pitch — — and the compelling history play "COURTING MAE WEST" has cleared the first hurdle to be onstage this summer during their annual early July festival in a theatre in Manhattan.
• • The Fresh Fruit Festival offers over 30 live acts. Courting Mae West: Sex, Censorship, and Secrets is one of the two plays they will produce. The 95-minute serious-minded comedy will be shown FOUR times onstage [in a theatre with approximately 80 seats].
• • Details and ticket prices will be posted when available.
• • After the 9 February 1927 performance of "SEX," Mae was hauled off to Jefferson Market Police Court on Sixth Avenue, where she spent the night locked up in Jefferson Market Jail with streetwalkers, pickpockets, and drug addicts.
• • "Courting Mae West: Sex, Censorship, and Secrets" is based on true events during 1926-1932 when Mae West was arrested and jailed for trying to stage two gay plays on Broadway.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West
• • Illustration: Michael DiMotta • • Mae West star of SEX • • 1927 • •
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Mae West.
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