The first time I ever went back to my high school, Mumford, after graduating in 1965 was when my musical, The Color Purple, first came to th...
I know… I promised that Part 3 was going to be about finally getting into the house I grew up in on Sorrento Ave. in Detroit after try...
The Fox Theater during the day. I can’t breathe it’s that stunning. The marquee. Found this on-line (along with the photos in th...
Here’s where I’ll be this coming weekend conducting the bows music to my musical, The Color Purple, and then on Saturday morning...
This is an aerial view of the amazing Fox Theater in downtown Detroit. This theater was declared a historical landmark in 1989. Pretty ama...
A 1960’s black drag revue from the Pearl Box bar in New York. Three sides of this double LP are the usual drag stuff, but the last sid...
1996 I discovered this little treasure on a fleamarket. Knowing I would play in two stage productions in near future I simply had to have it...
Hangin’ with Kitty at the New Dramatists Luncheon in NYC when I was up for a Tony for The Color Purple, 5/18/06. And look who was ...
This is me with two friends on the front page of our local newspaper (Inglewood, CA) in the summer of 1968. We are eating rose petals in ...
I love it when high-brow meets low-brow, as in these Shakespeare cocktail napkins from the early 60’s. Each napkin takes a quote from ...
One of my prized possessions, a ticket stub from a premiere of “A Hard Day’s Night.” Special enough because it is Beatle...
I love things that are ‘off’ but born of popular trends and then spin off into their own orbit, making a firm landing on the ter...
Nessa here, just back from Ohayocon 2011 in lovely Columbus, Ohio! I’m not on staff at Ohayocon but I love to go there because it...
Anyone who knows me knows that I’m not an avid club-goer. It used to be that I wanted to hear every detail of a record under headphone...
I have always been a fan of the Marx Brothers and watch for revivals. On PBS, I have seen both An Evening with Groucho and Groucho: A Li...
Here is a photo and autograph I was delighted to pick up a few years ago (so excuse the poor scan.. I scanned it a few years ago!) This is V...
To continue on the semi-continuing neon theme…I submit this photo of the Varsity Theatre sign, two doors north of the North Gates of L...
Inspired by my love of old carnivals and ventriloquist dolls....
I have a lot of friends. I love my friends. I even wrote the theme song. As I usually work as far as the hands on the clock stretch, I mostl...
This isn’t kitsch, it’s art at it’s finest. But it’s my Museum and everything I do impacts my take on kitsch. So I&#...
Sorry this is so last-minute (not as sorry as I am for that crazy smile on my face) but if you have a chance to catch or TiVo The Kennedy Ce...
I’m just a Broadway Baby. Walking off my tired feet. Pounding Forty-Second Street To be in a show… This old Cologne Bottle is &#...
From the San Diego Union tribune, 12/1/10: Convincing Alice Walker, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Color Purple,̶...
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Can’t even move I’m so stiff and a little pissed as well as me who usually travels around with four cameras, different resolutio...
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