Borderline NP: A Banana Dance

[davemarc]

The highlight of last night's Paul Taylor Dance Company Program was an
interpretation of "I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones" that was
worthy of the Pynchman as well as dear departed Dennis Potter.  It was part
of a 1994 work called "Funny Papers," which also includes terpsichorean
takes on the classic "The Okeh Laughing Record," "Alley-Oop," "I'm Popeye
the Sailor Man," "Itsy Bitsy Teensy Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini," "Does
Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight)," and the
Jonathan and Darlene Edwards version of "I Am Woman."

Lighting by Jennifer Tipton.  Costumes by Santo Loquasto.  Funding by The
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New
York State Council on the Arts, Time Warner, The Fan Fox and Leslie R.
Samuels Foundation, Metropolitan Life Foundation, Theatre Development Fund,
and City Center 55th Street Theater Foundation, among many other sources.  

It can take a lot more than just stringing crepe paper around a barn,

davemarc