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CINO ACTORS ELSEWHERE OFF-OFF
Caffe Cino stars, like all Off-Off actors, played in many venues. IRVING METZMAN (The Brown Crown) donated these far-flung images of himself. (Left) IRVING hooded at far left and EDDIE BARTON (A Letter from Colette) barechested at far right in an unidentified play at Theater for the New City. (Center) IRVING as the corrupt TV spokesperson Arnold Bliss in my Dynel at Norman Hartman's Old Reliable Theatre Tavern. (Right) JEANNE LANSON (The Spring Horror Show) and IRVING made their stage debuts in ROBERTA SKLAR's production of my The Sleeping Bag with beautiful Stephanie Gordon at Tony Bastiano's original, upstairs Playwrights Workshop.
photo JAMES D. GOSSAGE
At the Playbox Studio, BILL HAISLIP and JACQUE LYNN COLTON in JOSEF BUSH's terrifying Evening Raga. WILLIAM M. HOFFMAN, Joe Pichette, and NEIL FLANAGAN in Hoffman's X's, The Old Reliable. 1970. DAN LEACH (right) and others torment a transvestite in GEORGE BIRMISA's Georgie Porgie, Village Arena.
My The Haunted Host with Joseph Pichette and NEIL FLANAGAN was the first and last play to be done at the Castle Theatre, 1969. NEIL FLANAGAN, BOB SHIELDS, MARY WORONOV, and HELEN HANFT rehearsed but did not get to open my The Sleeping Bag at Bastiano's basement venue for his second Playwrights Workshop, 1967. BILL HAISLIP and Barbara Bauer appeared in my The Golden Circle, the first and last play to be done at The Spring Street Players, 1972.
photo JAMES D. GOSSAGE
Left, DORIC WILSON's star JANE LOWRY (standing) in an N.F. Simpson play at the Jan Hus Theatre, 1961. Below, CHUCK GOLDEN and a beardless JOE DAVIES first and second from left top row, and a clean-cut HAAL BORSKE fifth in Laugh With Leacock at the 13th Street and East End theatres, 1962. They also played the Cino and La Mama. Right,  MICHAEL WARREN POWELL in CLARIS NELSON's A Road Where the Wolves Run, Circle Rep, 1972.
photo JAMES D. GOSSAGE
Many Cino People "hit The Old Reliable Theatre Tavern." NEIL FLANAGAN and VICTOR LIPARI were John the Baptist and Bobby Dylan in my Joyce Dynel. BILL HAISLIP and Jeffrey Herman found each other in my Fog. JOHN BORSKE and WILLIAM M. HOFFMAN played in Neil's comic-book production, Pudd'n'head Wilson.
It seems fitting to close this page with a tribute to the actor who worked everywhere. CHARLES STANLEY was a tragedian, a comedian, a dancer, and a travesty actor--sometimes all at once--so he seemed to fit in everywhere. Below you see him at left at Theatre Genesis in his own King of the Sun, at far right at Judson Church in Black and White and Sparkle Plenty with his frequent collaborator, DEBORAH LEE, and center, that's CHARLES' mop of hair poking out of a gigantic cloak at Westbeth in JEAN-CLAUDE VAN ITALLIE's A Fable. CHARLES certainly did fit in everywhere. AL CARMINES asked my help informing people of CHARLES' death. I called thirty or forty men and women CHARLES had worked with, most of whom gasped, "He was my lover, you know."
photo JAMES D. GOSSAGE

 

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