Performances: December 2006 Archives

Previews of Funny Uncles Performances in Baltimore

December 11, 2006 10:17 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Two previews for upcoming performances of Funny Uncles at the Creative Alliance at the Patterson in Baltimore, Maryland on Friday, December 15th and Saturday, December 16th.

- In "Everyone's Got A Funny Uncle" by Rahne Alexander in Baltimore Gay Life you can read an interview of Peter DiMuro, artistic director for Funny Uncles.

- In the Washington Blade Patrick Folliard writes about upcoming shows, dances and musical performances that are worth seeing over the holiday season. Here's part of the write-up about Funny Uncles:

WANT TO GIVE the gift of dance? Try tickets to see the progressive Liz Lerman Dance Exchange’s production of “Gumdrops and the Funny Uncle” playing at Baltimore’s Patterson Theatre...Staged and conceived by gay choreographer Peter DiMuro, “Gumdrops” explores the definition of family through the eyes of Siena, a little adopted girl; a pair of figure skaters who adopt a hockey team; and a Baltimore grandfather who creates a home under many roofs.
A work in progress, “Gumdrops” is partly inspired by DiMuro’s own real-life experience as an uncle to his young niece and his early career stint playing funny uncle roles, including Uncle Drosselmeyer in the Boston Ballet’s production of the “The Nutcracker.”

“After I came out as a gay actor and dancer in the late 1970s midwest, I immediately went from playing male ingénues to odd uncles like Uncle Oliver in ‘School for Scandal,’” says DiMuro. “Knowing I was gay, directors could no longer see me as a romantic lead.”