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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
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