Seattle Gay News
Issue 7, Volume 46, February 16, 2018
Arts & Entertainment
A love story for the ages: Can Can’s marriage of dance, dinner, and debauchery
Darkness falls as Noir City returns to SIFF TCM host Eddie Muller on his festival lineup of Classy A’s and Trashy B’s
Romeo + Juliet – Photo by Bruce Dugdale
by Jessica Price SGN Contributing Writer ROMEO + JULIET CAN CAN KITCHEN & CABARET Through April 29
Stepping into the subterranean depths of the Can Can in the historic Pike Place Market is the tiniest bit disconcerting, as if you’re entering a dimly lit world where exotic bejeweled dancers reside, hidden
see ROMEO + JULIET page 12
Eddie Muller – Photo by David M. Allen
by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer NOIR CITY FILM FESTIVAL SIFF CINEMA EGYPTIAN THEATRE February 16-22
For fans of classic films, the return of the Noir City Film Festival to the SIFF Egyptian is cause for celebration. Best-selling author, Film Noir Foundation founder and Turner Classic Movies (TCM) “Noir Alley” host
see NOIR CITY page 6
Locally grown Mamma Mia! The Seattle Rep debuts is sweet and wacky a world premiere with Ibsen in Chicago
The company of Mamma Mia! performs "Lay All Your Love On Me" – Photo by Tracy Martin
by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer MAMMA MIA! 5TH AVENUE THEATRE Through February 25 The musical, Mamma Mia!, is almost too sweet. Certainly it’s a confection and maybe, for some, not their dessert of choice. But for most, it’s a silly, joyous, ridiculous story using boatloads of ABBA tunes that were revamped by the original ABBA writ-
ers with a few new lyrics that turn them into songs that fit a musical. The Story Primer, if you need it: A 20 year-old woman is getting married on the Greek Island she was raised on by her single mom. She finds Mom’s diary and discovers her missing father might be one of three different men and she invites them to the wedding behind Mom’s back. They arrive and histories are revealed. Will her father walk her down the aisle? Will she say “I do, I do, I do, I do”?
see MAMMA MIA! page 4
Christopher McLinden and Annette Toutonghi in Ibsen in Chicago – Photo by Alan Alabastro
by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer IBSEN IN CHICAGO SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE Through March 4 The Seattle Rep debuted a world premiere (their commission) on February 2 developed through their new play development process they call The Other Season. Ibsen in Chicago, by David Grimm, feels
like an old-style play, set as it is in 1882, but it turns out to be based on a real story: Ibsen’s world premiere of his (especially then) controversial play, Ghosts, was performed in 1882 in…Chicago! In Danish! Ghosts, poking at hot topics like religion, venereal disease, incest and euthanasia, was very poorly received and thought terribly scandalous. If we believe the story told in this new play, Ibsen in Chicago, a Danish immigrant, finding himself working as a bricklayer, meets a world-class
see IBSEN page 5