Director/wrer David Galligan has filtered much of the gay and lbian experience through this fast-paced mil revue, featurg 22 songs and sketch performed by an outstandg six-member ensemble. Galligan's stagg, gmented by the choreography of Tony Kaye and Kay Cole, is sparse but highly ventive, effectively highlightg the reali and absurdi, humor and pathos of livg an "alternative" liftyle. The mil numbers were provid by many of L.A.'s most gifted wrers, cludg the legendary Billy Barn, whose irreverent openg number, "The Gay '90s," featur the ensemble full turn-of-the-century regalia. The stum are quickly disrd, however, as the sually attired st of three women and three men segue to a seri of illumatg mil and spoken vigt.
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GAY 90'S REVUE
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THE GAY NETI REVUE
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THE GAY '90S
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THE GAY ’90S MIL
Ironilly, real life, the Gay Neti were the perd where the world began to move beyond tradnal steampunk/gaslamp fantasy athetics bee of new technologi and movements such as Art Nouve. If a story set durg the Gay Neti tak place the wtern part of the Uned Stat or Canada, the Twilight of the Old Wt trope often to play.
The Gay Neti Nightmare!, om Plastic Man #2 (Augt 1944), featur a town stuck the Gay Neti. One Goln Age Batman story (wrten the 1940s) featured Batman and Rob visg an island where all morn technology was banned and the populatn lived like was The Gay Neti. Archie Comics did a few stori that featured Archie and the gang livg The Gay Neti.
To Hartley's story: An Archie Comics om the eighti has Betty pg for The Gay Neti and fallg asleep, only to learn her dream that wasn't such a great time after all. There were two films (one 1933, the other 1942) tled The Gay Neti.
THEATER : THE GAY ‘90S--THE MIL
Gigi (1958) is set at the "turn of the century, " but the feelg of the book, play, and film is fely Gay Neti.
Louis has a very Gay Neti look and feel. Gay Purr-ee is set Paris durg the 1890s, wh one scene Alaska where the male protagonist untentnally strik gold.
Whilst Jeev and Wooster is set The Roarg '20s (or perhaps more accurately, Genteel Interbellum Settg), one story revolv around Sir Watks Basset's Compromisg Memoirs (and the multu of parti who sire the stctn thereof) of the var thgs he and other proment personag did durg The Gay Neti. And Bertie Wooster's Uncle Willoughby wrote and published a siar book, aga alg wh his disgraceful explos The Gay Neti. Jack Fney's Time and Aga (1970) is set 1882, which is technilly outsi the time perd, but seems to f the ia of The Gay Neti almost perfectly anyway.