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HAT FANTASIA (Does Anyone?)

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ALL I EVER NEEDED

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Milton Art Bank

Ethan Jerrett, Technical Assistant

Interviews conducted with Rocker Verastique and Daniel Herman

Becky Factor, Terry Factor

Barbara Ross and Glenn Wilson

Sabrina Wilson

Brice Brown

Aimee Colman, Iz Horgan, Mary Hodson, Costumes

Aaron Henderson, Bob Kollar, Equipment Loan

John Clum - Something for the Boys

"For Show Queens, musicals are about divas, about Ethel Merman, Mary Martin, Carol Channing, Barbara Cook, Angela Lansbury, and a handful of other women that have larger than life demands."

"Being a Show Queen is also being something of an anachronism. The kind of musical Show Queens love is a thing of the past."

"The Show Queen is adept at the imaginative leap of reading his gayness into the musical, particularly in reading his gayness into the flamboyance of the divas."

"Central to an aspect of the diva is the performance of a fierce, Pyrrhic victory over mortality, like Carol Channing playing Dolly in her seventies or Chita Rivera in her sixties vamping as the Spider Woman. On stage, these women are forms of Norma Desmond, frozen in time.

Fabulous - Tony Kushner - Notes Toward a Theater of the Fabulous

"What are the salient features of Fabulousness? Irony. Tragic history. Defiance. Gender-fuck. Glitter Drama. It is not butch. It is not hot. The cathexis surrounding Fabulousness is not necessarily erotic. The Fabulous is not delimited by age of beauty. Style has a dialectical relationship to physical beauty. The body is the Real. Style is Theater. The raw materials are reworked into illusion.

Hamilton - The Queen of Camp

"Camp aficionados prized the garish, the tasteless, the tacky and artificial. Above all -- they prized the outmoded -- relics of popular culture that had become obsolete."

JESSE FACTOR

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