Odds and Ends – 2

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Vancouver Provence July 14 1969: The City Censor evicts the Gallmaufry Theatre’s nude cast of my Camera Obscura. ZITA LITVINAS and DAVID GALLAGHER played it nude three times at the Cino in 1967 without comment before they declared themselves uncomfortable and ANDY MILLIGAN made them vinyl bikinis. Peculiar Works, reviving the play on the street in 2008, used similar costumes. 2001 performance of “Camera Obscura” HERE.

MAGIE DOMINIC hosts a tribute to street-musician Moondog (behind her). Beside her, Beat poet Peter Orlovsky freaks. WILLIAM M. HOFFMAN wrote a narration, and PHOEBE WRAY directed.

Photographer CONRAD WARD and artist KENNY BURGESS.

RON LINK, 1977, autographed to HOPE STANSBURY.

JOHN GILMAN in BOB HEIDE’s At War with the Mongols, Old Reliable, c. 1970.

Me with my mural depicting JOE CINO ringing his chimes and Ellen Stewart her bell.

JEFF WEISS’ Pinocchio play, somewhere in Pennsylvania of all places.

Cino People-heavy productions from 1965. At Hunter College, DONALD L. BROOKS (center) as the Grandfather in ROBERTA SKLAR’s production of Brecht’s Good Woman of Setzuan, a rare color photo by CONRAD WARD.

Cino People-heavy productions from 1965. La Mama, PAUL FOSTER’s play with BLANCHE DEE, FRED FORREST, and WALTER HARRIS, music JOHN HERBERT MC DOWELL, direction LAWRENCE SACHAROW.

JEAN-CLAUDE VAN ITALLIE’s America Hurrah, Pocket Theatre 1966.

RUTH YORCK’s Love Song for Mrs. Boas, directed by NEIL FLANAGAN, La Mama 1965.

Rolls of Gold by JOSEF BUSH with IRVING METZMAN, Cubiculo c.1975. P.S.: Josef Bush confides that this show never opened at the Cubiculo, after all, but through Ellen Stewart’s generosity, found a home at La Mama’s Big Stage, where, he adds, “It was an outrageous success in that big room. Oh, what a gorgeous cast!”

TWO GREAT PLAYWRIGHT STORIES: JERRY CARUANA produced five–count ’em, five!–plays at the Cino, then left because he was with the city bureau that was trying to close places like the Cino on licensing technicalities! This is, in fact, his I.D. photo for that job!

TWO GREAT PLAYWRIGHT STORIES: FRED VASSI (inset) did the illustrated play with JOHN HERBERT MCDOWELL and JACQUE LYNN COLTON at Judson Church in 1966, the same year he did a play at the Cino–then he changed his name to Marco Vassi and became, acccording to many critics, “The greatest erotic writer in history!”