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Everybody on three...
jazz hands! The Best of Broadway season begins with
full-blown dance-fever favorite Fosse.
Keller
Auditorium
(formerly Civic Auditorium), 222
SW Clay St., 241-1802. July 18-23. $21-$60.
A cat
fight of epic
proportions erupts on the stage of Darcelle XV! Watch your
back the night of La Femme Magnifique.
Darcelle
XV, 208
NW 3rd Ave., 222-5338. 8 pm Sunday, July 16. $8.
The
Portland Gay Men's Chorus hosts Gala! Gala!, the
finale of
its 20th anniversary season; the Portland Lesbian Choir
and Bridges Vocal
Ensemble perform.
PCC-Sylvania
Performing Arts Center, 1200 SW 49th Ave., 224-8499.
8 pm Saturday, July 15. $12-$20.
Choir-boy-looking
cabaret queen Michael Feinstein co-headlines a shindig with
Linda Eder.
Arlene
Schnitzer
Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 796-9293.
8 pm Saturday, July 15. $39-$55.
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She's the irrefutable patron saint of pansies everywhere,
so it's easy to call Madonna the ultimate fag hag. But what
do you call someone who stands one step outside of this
gay icon's spotlight?
A haggot?
Serving much the same purpose as Bette Midler's backup
singers, Madonna's supporting songbirds often go nameless.
Not Donna De Lory.
De Lory graced the stage for many a Madonna tour and was
a featured player in the classic documentary Truth or
Dare.
Now De Lory breaks out on her own with her just-released
second album, Bliss, on Secret Road Records. She
appeared in Portland at Borders Books last week.
De Lory talked to QW about having a gay brother,
making it on her own and who really started the whole "Truth
or Dare" game.
QW: How did you get in the music?
De Lory: My brother Alan is gay. As kids, we did everything
together. I remembered playing dress-up with him in my sister's
clothes at the age of 6. So when he started dance and music,
I did it too.
What was the coolest thing about being Madonna's back-up
singer?
She's like my big sister. She's always giving me advice.
After having Lourdes, she wants me to have a baby.
What was the most important thing you learned from working
with her?
I learned to be true to yourself. She is the ultimate
self-realized artist. The way she acts is the way she is.
Truth or Dare has become a defining moment in gay culture.
Did anyone expect the gay kiss to get in the film?
I started playing [truth or dare] with the film crew. It
turned into this huge thing when Madonna found out. Sometimes
it got out of control. By the time we got around to the
Evian bottle it wasn't a big deal. That doesn't mean I wasn't
nervous at the screening of the film. I was happy with how
it turned out, but it did get hurtful to some people.
Are you talking about the makeup artist called "Mama
Makeup," who allegedly got raped?
[In the film] it looked like I was ignoring Mama Makeup;
I was just
trying to get her not to talk. All I
could think of was that we were all responsible adults and
I wasn't willing to be exploited.
After witnessing the success of Madonna, do you want
to be a gay icon?
Sure, but it has to come from the music. I can play in
front of 50 people or a thousand, it doesn't matter, as
long as it's about the music. But if someone wants to say
"you're a diva girl," I know I can be one, too.
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