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FOR RENT

ACROSS
1 In need of
mopping
6 Apple app mostly
replaced by
Messages
11 Clock std.
14 Some plankton
15 Iconic Vivien
Leigh role
16 2014 World Cup
Final host
17 Bungles
18 Stable moms
19 “What is THAT?”
20 What Darwin did
aboard the
Beagle?
23 Far from fresh
24 Reduced to
crumbs, perhaps
25 London
supermarket
sections?
30 Behaved like a
lovestruck heart
31 Lakeside
temperature
gauge?
32 End
35 Love interest for
WALL-E
36 Word that may
follow a
president’s name
39 Carrier merged
with Delta since
2010
41 Game with
Reverse cards
42 ’50s sitcom name
44 Something to
wrestle with
46 Figure out
48 Tie shoes
professionally?
52 Walking aid
54 Distributed
55 Lacking a critical
watch-making
supply?
60 Hitter’s stat
61 Sometimes
plucked
instrument
62 Dorothy, to Em
64 Common base
65 Impulses
66 Showman’s
talent
67 Braz. neighbor

68 Flirt
69 “Voting Rights
Trail” terminus

DOWN
1 Sink
2 Slam (into)
3 Movie lab helper
4 Battle of New
Orleans pirate
5 Short Golf drive?
6 Insect with
eyespots on its
wings
7 Be irritated by
8 Plucked
instrument
9 Region
10 Academic hanger
11 “Nice work!”
12 Onslaught
13 Symbolic yet
insubstantial
21 München cubes
22 RSVP holders
25 Word after well or
ill
26 Techno club
event
27 Winter recreation
28 Solar wind
particle
29 Use a needle

33 R.E.M.’s “The __
Love”
34 Cargo pickup site
37 Ubiquitous rodent
38 Warning sound,
perhaps
40 Southwest routes
43 Recon target
45 Interchangeable
components
47 Mean
49 Lumber remnant,
in Liverpool

50 Ascended again
51 “Blast it!”
52 Wavering word
53 Potato or yam
56 “Try this”
57 Contemporary of
Nadia
58 Computer giant
59 In retrospect, it
may have
sounded too
good to be true
63 SFO posting

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03/09/18

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When 
a 
group 
of 
gay, 
male upperclassmen in the 
University’s musical theatre 
department saw a need for a 
space to celebrate an identity 
that they hold so close to 
themselves, they created the 
“Boys, Boys, Boys!” Cabaret — 
a biennial performance put on 
by the group.
As performers and students 
studying musical theatre, this 
group realized that there 
was no better way to open 
a dialogue about the issues 
surrounding 
representation 
of the gay male community 
in 
musical 
theatre 
than 
through performance. The 
lack of representation for 
this community is not a new 
conversation within the world 
of theatre, and this age-old 
trend sparked a desire in the 
young men of the University’s 
department to work to make a 
change.
Justin 
Showell, 
Griffin 
Binnicker and Matthew Kemp 
— all juniors in the musical 
theatre department in the 
School of Music, Theatre and 
Dance — wrote in an email 
interview with The Michigan 
Daily, the collaborative nature 
of their answers a testament to 
how well they work together 
on projects like “Boys, Boys, 
Boys!” They spoke a lot on 
the catalyst for beginning the 
cabaret, and what it means to 
them.
“This cabaret’s conception 
was 
initially 
inspired 
by the lack of gay male 
representation in the musical 
theatre world; particularly in 
the ‘leading male’ trope. Too 
often is the assertion made 
that 
a 
homosexual 
man’s 
neutral is not believable as 
a romantic male lead. We 
constantly find that society’s 
heteronormativity 
not 
only 
stunts 
potential 
in 
our 
everyday lives but also in our 
artistic 
development,” 
they 
said when asked about what 
ultimately inspired the event.
The struggle of being a 
homosexual man in a world 
filled 
with 
heterosexual 
characters is often met with 
comments like, “Oh, he can 
play 
straight 
really 
well,” 
which could be countered by, 
“He can’t play straight at all.” 
These types of assumptions, 
in addition to others, are what 
makes being a gay male in the 
field inherently difficult.
The trio also spoke on 
cinematic representations of 
the gay narrative and how 

that ties into their inspiration 
behind holding the cabaret.
“Recently, 
leading 
roles 
have been portrayed by openly 
straight 
men 
(“Moonlight,” 
“Call Me By Your Name,” 
etc.). In this climate, it can be 
difficult to cultivate a sense 
of belonging in the theatrical 
field.”
Despite these challenges, 
the group is more than excited 

to have the opportunity to 
celebrate themselves in a way 
they love so much this coming 
weekend at the Kerrytown 
Concert House.
“The ‘Boys, Boys, Boys!’ 
Cabaret is a chance to stand 
in solidarity and shape our 

own 
sense 
of 
belonging,” 
they said. “This will be an 
evening of songs, traditionally 
sung by female characters in 
acclaimed musicals, to express 

the universality of love and 
to give us a conduit for our 
unique narratives.”
The 
performance 
will 
showcase 
seven 
of 
the 
department’s 
upperclassmen 
males, all with the mutual 
desire to tell their stories 
and make a space for more 
dialogues to arise about the 
day-to-day 
challenges 
they 
face carrying these identities 
in their field.
As 
performers, 
Showell, 
Binnicker and Kemp hope 
that the audience members 
who come to support them 
this weekend are able to take 
away many things from their 
performance. 
In 
general, 
marginalized people deserve 
platforms 
to 
share 
their 
narratives just as much as 
their normative counterparts 
do. In creating this cabaret, 
they not only create a space 
for themselves, but also inspire 
other minority groups to do so 
as well.
When thinking about the 
way in which theatre effects an 
audience’s sense of empathy, 
the group also had a lot to 
say about the relatability of 
their narratives to the general 
audience and demographic of 
people they are performing to.
“In 
representing 
marginalized 
identities, 
it 
becomes evident that people 
who you felt were worlds 
different than you actually 
share many similarities. When 
people of privilege are able to 
see glimpses of themselves in 
the narrative of persecuted 
people, we may find that 
society takes leaps forward 
in inclusion and tolerance of 
many, different cultures,” they 
said. This really plays into 
the importance of doing this 
kind of theatre, which seeks 
to start a dialogue and make a 
statement for a live audience.
The group looks forward to 
performing for audiences this 
weekend, 
celebrating 
their 
own identities and having a 
space to do what they love 
with 
full 
creative 
agency. 
When 
asked 
how 
musical 
theatre is the best or most 
prime medium to use for this 
type of statement, they had 
plenty to say.
“The musical theatre holds 
a mirror up to the society that 
the piece is speaking to,” they 
said. “People are far more 
likely to absorb and understand 
another side of the coin when 
it is presented to them in a 
way that is entertaining. The 
theatre is unexpected, and we 
get the most gratitude when 
people don’t even realize their 
minds are being changed.”

A space in Ann Arbor for 
‘Boys, Boys, Boys!’ cabaret

ELI RALLO
Daily Arts Writer

COMMUNITY CULTURE

“Boys, Boys, Boys!” 
Cabaret

Mar. 11 at 8 p.m.

Kerrytown Concert 
House

$5.00

As performers 

and students 

studying musical 

theatre, this group 

realized that there 

was no better way 

to open a dialogue 

about the issues 

surrounding 

representation 

of the gay male 

community in 

musical theatre 

than through 

performance

BOOKS THAT BUILT US

I don’t really remember 
much after stepping on the 
tarmac 
in 
that 
cold 
Jan. 
winter. I remember finding it 
odd that you have to take a bus 
back to the airport terminal in 
Germany instead of strolling 
down 
the 
jet 
bridge, 
but 
that’s about it. There were no 
impressive details of settling 
into a new home, going to a 
new school and meeting new 
people in a completely new 
country.
What I do remember — 
stupidly, vividly — was the 
moment my parents dropped 
the 
earth-shattering 
news 
right on top of me. To set the 
scene, I was in the fourth 
grade, living in the quaint 
little upstate South Carolina 
town of Anderson. I was by all 

means a normal boy (LEGOs, 
books, screwing around with 
friends outside, etc.), yet in 
that normality lay a blissful 
sense of childlike ignorance. 
For the first nine years of my 
life I marched to the tune of 
my family’s drum, living life 
without questioning.
But completely uprooting 
and relocating to a whole 
new continent when you have 
hardly been outside of state 
borders for your entire life 
will make anyone question, 
even a kid. So, when I was told 
my family would be moving 
to Germany, I naturally had 
questions. Only I had no idea 
how to answer them, so I opted 
to flip on Cartoon Network, 
holding back tears as I refused 
to 
acknowledge 
my 
new 
reality.
Settling into this new home 
wasn’t hard (being a “new kid” 
gives you a certain mysterious, 

alien-like aura that allures 
fourth graders). The hard part 
was making it feel like home. 
No number of friends I made 
and adventures I went on 
could shake the feeling that 
I was living in a European 
spinoff of my life in South 
Carolina. 
However, 
there 
was one book hidden right 
under my nose which could’ve 
made me realize the spinoff 
is sometimes as good as the 
original: 
Saint-Exupéry’s 
magnificent 
novella 
“The 
Little Prince.”
On 
the 
surface, 
“The 
Little Prince” is a beautifully 
illustrated 
and 
imaginative 
children’s 
story. 
The 
protagonist 
is 
a 
downed 
aviator stranded in the Sahara 
who chances upon the Prince 
wandering the desert. As he 
fixes his plane, he gets lost in 
the tales of the Prince, his home 
planet and his interstellar 

ROBERT MANSUETTI
Daily Arts Writer

journey. The essence of the 
novella, though, is much more 
poignant than any child should 
be able to understand. It is the 
sincerely short tale of a lost 
soul; a child who quests to 
find understanding in a world 
of confusing, boring and vain 
grown-ups.
“The Little Prince” does 
not get caught up in wistful 
adult 
tragedy 
but 
instead 
seeks childhood certainties 

and 
inner 
peace. 
Saint-
Exupéry dedicates the book 
to a longtime grown-up friend 
of his while looking to his 
child readers for forgiveness 
because “All grown-ups were 
once children,” adding, “but 
only few of them remember 
it.” The book is targeted more 
at the parent reading than the 
child sitting on their lap — 
on one page, it’s a critique on 
materialism 
before 
turning 
to a meditation on the nature 
of human relationships, all 
expressed via delicately simple 
prose. Each word is carefully 
chosen — its most memorable 
aphorism, “One sees clearly 
only with the heart. What is 
essential is invisible to the 
eye,” was rewritten about 15 
times before Saint-Exupéry 
was finally able to settle on the 

most to-the-point yet eloquent 
way of writing what he needed 
to write.
“The Little Prince” eluded 
me growing up. My mom 
read it to me here and there 
when I was young, and soon 
after moving to Germany we 
read it as a class at my new 
international 
school. 
Even 
then I had no real memories 
of it, other than a fleeting 
mental image of the famous 
drawing of a boa constrictor 
swallowing 
an 
elephant. 
It 
wasn’t 
until 
recently 
rediscovering the novella did 
it have a profound impact 
on me. Now almost a decade 
older and far removed from 
the days when my mom and I 
would take a day trip to comb 
through children’s literature 
at a Books-A-Million, I went 
and got a copy of “The Little 
Prince,” partly due to the off-
hand recommendation of a 
friend who cherished it. After 
finally reading it by myself for 
the first time, I felt like a child 
again, in no small part due 
to the happy tears streaming 
down my face.
Even when I moved back 
to the United States, I never 
felt like I had a proper home. 
“Home” is a word I associate 
with a childlike nostalgia for 
a predictable comfort and 
warmth that I unfortunately 
have never been quite able to 
replicate post-moving. For me, 
home is not where my family 
is or where my friends are, 
it’s where my heart lies; it’s a 
feeling of belonging. Houses 
are 
only 
interchangeable 
background sets for me at this 
point. Often, I’ll find myself 
wandering around my current 
abode half-jokingly dreading 
the day when I’ll have to yet 
again help my parents pack 
up the sheer amount of stuff 
that has nestled itself in the 
corners.
The titular prince’s home 
is a small asteroid, small 
enough so one “would watch 
the twilight whenever (they) 
wanted to” simply by scooting 
their chair. It is populated by 
three volcanoes — two active 
and one extinct — and a rose 

he comes to love. In embarking 
on an astronomical journey to 
seek what the universe has to 
offer, he has to leave his home 
behind to discover what home 
truly means to him. In a piece 
of ageless wisdom, the Prince 
comforts the aviator when 
it comes time for the two to 
depart:
“You’ll 
have 
stars 
like 
nobody else … When you look 
up at the sky at night, since I’ll 
be living on one of them, since 
I’ll be laughing on one of them, 
for you it’ll be as if all the stars 
are laughing. You’ll have stars 
that can laugh!”
If only I knew the stars 
were laughing with me when I 
stared out of my skylight at the 
glimpse of the dark German 
landscape. Those same stars 

were laughing with my friends 
back in South Carolina, the 
people that I thought I had 
already said goodbye to for the 
last time. Reading “The Little 
Prince” again taught me that 
even though we may physically 
lose people and things as we 
travel down our journey of life, 
they remain part of us forever. 
Our past experiences link us 
to what we have left behind, 
enabling us to build a place 
that feels like home whenever 
and wherever we feel is right. 
While the little Prince of the 
book ultimately returns to his 
original home, for me it will 
not be the same. All I know is 
whenever I find my true home, 
there will always be a spot 
on my bookshelf for Saint-
Exupéry’s little masterpiece.

‘The Little Prince’ is more 
than just a child’s story

“The Little 

Prince” does 

not get caught 

up in wistful 

adult tragedy 

but instead 

seeks childhood 

certainties and 

inner peace

The book is 

targeted more 

at the parent 

reading than 

the child sitting 

on their lap

6 — Friday, March 9, 2018
Arts
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