Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man
Seth Bogner
February 9, 2014: I have a confession to make; I am terrified by audience interaction. The phobia probably took hold as most do, in junior high P.E. class where I was forced to participate in activities that I had not been properly trained for in front of an audience eager for a sight gag. What does a prematurely 6’2’’, slightly overweight, vaguely feminine, incredibly uncoordinated boy in the Midwest know about the pommel horse? Still this has not deterred me as an adult from subjecting myself to a whole manner of these panic-inducing theatrical events. It does not matter if they are set at an '80s prom, a large ethnic wedding, or a drag beauty pageant; the result is always the same. Never have I stared so hard at the floor as when Jason Michael Snow (doing his best Jack Plotnick impersonation) ran through the aisle of the 777 Theatre with a hand-held camera linked to an on-stage screen to film confused audience members masturbating their programs. The man seated next to me must have assumed that my Tourette’s was acting up when I started chanting, “please don’t talk me, please don’t talk to me,” as Snow, playing Dan Anderson author of the book Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man in this play of the same name, was in the audience choosing non-volunteers for his on stage histrionics.
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