Flibbertigibbetry
Filed Under (Uncategorized) by on 19-08-2008
After the well-regarded choreographer Doug Elkins became a father, he made a choice to shutter his company to free his time to be with his new family. Nevertheless, he and his wife parted ways and a few years ago amid a despairing funk over the demise of his marriage and the loss of his company, he found again his muse in a bonding session with his young son. The genesis of his re-emergence on the dance scene was watching the 1965 film The Sound Of Music and singing along with his three-year-old to the musical number “The Lonely Goatherd.”
In Fräulein Maria, his loving parody of the seminal musical, three Marias twirl about. One is comically danced by Arthur Aviles, his bald pate conjuring a The King and I Yul Brynner to a Julie Andrews soundtrack. In another stroke of drag brilliance, the demure Liesl “I am sixteen going on seventeen, [...]
