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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
The City of West Hollywood and Out West 2011 to present
Beyond Brokeback: A Staged Reading with Music
for One City/One Pride Culture Series
Saturday, June 25, 2010 7:00 P.M.
Fiesta Hall in Plummer Park
1200 North Vista Drive
West Hollywood, CA 90046
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA – On Saturday, June 25, 2010 the City of West Hollywood through it Arts & Cultural Affairs Commission, Lesbian and Gay Advisory Board and Out West 2011 will present an expanded version of Beyond Brokeback with a staged reading of messages, essays, poetry, and music inspired by the landmark film Brokeback Mountain as part of the city’s annual One City/One Pride Culture Series. The event is free, the public is welcome, and reservations are not required. For more information visit
www.weho.org/pride Beyond Brokeback was first developed and performed at the Autry National Center last December as part of its acclaimed Out West at the Autry series and in commemoration of the 5th Anniversary of Brokeback Mountain. Beyond Brokeback was most recently performed by the Theatre and Dance Department of the University of Wyoming in Laramie for the Shepard Symposium on Social Justice in April and is scheduled to be presented by Chicago’s Roosevelt University in its 3,700 seat historic Auditorium Theatre on November 13th, directed by David Zak. Dates with other national venues are currently in negotiation.
Beyond Brokeback: A Staged Reading with Music was adapted by Out West at the Autry creator and producer Gregory Hinton from the 2007 book Beyond Brokeback: Impact of a Film written by Members of the Ultimate Brokeback Forum website, culled from over 500,000 posts. Excerpts of poignant and humorous messages, essays, and poetry— by writers young and old, male and female, gay and straight— will be interpreted by six readers.
Original songs from the CD “Meet Me on the Mountain”, also inspired by the film and written by acclaimed Los Angeles Master Chorale singer/composer Shawn Kirchner will be performed by Kirchner, and readers Alice Kirwan Murray, Marlene Head and Michael Butler Murray. Other readers include Lydia Nibley and William Handley.