March 3, 2019 Your Neighborhood — Your News®
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Two fairy tales land in Bklyn
BY ADAM FILLMORE
We’re a city of two tales!
Two different fairy tale musicals
fl itted into the County
of Kings last weekend. In Park
Slope, the Gallery Players presented
“Once Upon a Mattress,”
while in Brooklyn Heights, Theater
2020 performed “Into the
Woods.” Both shows run through
March 17 — but which is the
PANIC AT THE DISCO: Gerardo Vallejo, as Prince Dauntless, and Alyson Leigh
Rosenfeld, as Princess Winnifred, dance the Spanish Panic in the Gallery Players
production of “Once Upon a Mattress,” playing through March 17.
Steven Pisano
BY COLIN MIXSON
We’ll have a gay old
time!
A Brooklyn author will
offer bi-curious locals a
glimpse into the halcyon
days of Kings County’s
queer culture at Brooklyn
Historical Society’s Pierrepont
Street headquarters
most magical show?
“Once Upon a Mattress” is a
downy bit of fl uff. Based on “The
Princess and the Pea,” it offers a
bright and charming story about
a gung-ho princess who rescues
a prince with the power of spunk
and indefatigable dancing.
This production makes the
kingdom a primary-colored play-
beginning on March
5, where he will launch his
new book “When Brooklyn
was Queer,” and unveil an
exhibit of 19th-century relics
from some of the borough’s
fi rst known gay and
lesbian communities.
The new show “On the
(Queer) Waterfront: the
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Factories, Freaks, Sailors,
and Sex Workers of Brooklyn,”
explores the lives of
Victorian-era queer individuals
through period
art, photographs, fl iers,
lurid true-crime tales,
and extraordinary personal
documents, includ-
Grand Army Plaza’s
arch cordoned off
after debris drops
BY COLIN MIXSON
Mind the arch!
The area beneath Grand
Army Plaza’s Soldiers’ and Sailors’
Arch will be off limits to locals
until after a massive restoration
of the monument wraps
sometime in 2021, due to risk
of falling debris, according to
stewards of Brooklyn’s Backyard.
“At this point, the barricades
are expected to remain in place
until the restoration of the arch
is completed,” said Deborah
Kirschner, a spokeswoman for
meadow conservancy the Prospect
Park Alliance.
Alliance workers cordoned
off the area beneath the 126-
year-old arch after a small piece
of mortar roughly two-inches
long fell from the monument
last December, Kirschner said.
The rubble did not hit anyone,
but park keepers still chose
to restrict access to the arch out
of “an abundance of caution,”
according to the spokeswoman,
who said nothing has fallen
since the fi rst piece of mortar.
Alliance leaders plan to kick
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
It’s a somber song.
A concert of choral
music that commemorates
the “Red Summer”
of 1919, when racist violence
in northern cities
led to hundreds of deaths,
will ring out through St.
Ann and the Holy Trinity
Church on March 3.
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BROOKLYN BARD: Walt Whitman
shed light on Brooklyn’s
queer communities with poems
like “Leaves of Grass.”
Brooklyn Historical Society
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Curve fall
Choir sings of Explore borough’s gay past
‘Red Summer’
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