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MEAT WE GOT THE BEAT
Vol. 8 No. 18
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WOULDN’T YOU LIKE TO BE A PEPPER, TOO: “Pepperland,” a dance performance inspired by the music of the Beatles,
will bounce into the Brooklyn Academy of Music on May 8. Mat Hayward
BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
After all, a woman’s charm
is 50 percent illusion.
A new production of the
Tennessee Williams play
“A Streetcar Named Desire,”
opening in Crown
Heights on May 7, puts a
spotlight on the play’s gender
roles by casting a genderqueer
actor as troubled
Beatles-inspired
dance at BAM
It’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts
Club Dance! We hope you will
enjoy the show!
Members of a Fort Greene
dance troupe will pirouette,
jump, and groove to the tunes
of the Beatles at Brooklyn Academy
on May 8, giving fans young and
old a chance to relive the sensation
dance!
“Their music is beloved even
now, and this helps audiences
hear, feel, and see the music in
a deeper way all these decades
later,” said Lauren Grant, one of
the piece’s 15 dancers.
The Beatles-inspired dance
bonanza “Pepperland,” features
six Fab Four classics from the
“Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts
Club Band” album, including
the title track, “With a Little
Help From My Friends,” “A Day
in the Life,” “When I’m Sixty-
Four,” and “Within You Without
You,” along with “Penny Lane”
female protagonist Blanche
DuBois. Actor Russell Peck
has long identifi ed with
Blanche’s complex character
and fi ght for love, they
said.
“As young queer people,
we’re often drawn to characters
that are a little damaged,”
said Peck, who lives
in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens.
BY COLIN MIXSON
of Music in a show opening
from Liverpool — with
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“I defi nitely saw a
lot of myself in her and her
struggle to fi nd love.”
The drama, written in
1947, recounts the tragic
downfall of Blanche, who
leaves her home in Mississippi
to stay with her pregnant
sister, Stella Kowalski,
in New Orleans. The
BY COLIN MIXSON
Butchers expelled from a Park
Slope Key Food are warning customers
to beware the pre-packaged
meat now stocked by the
store’s temporary workers, saying
management has replaced
them with a bunch of amateurs,
who have no idea when and
where the beef was cut.
“They’re bringing in some
kind of pre-packed meat,” said
Freddie Mulé, a manager at the
Park Slope Key Food’s meat department.
“We’re not even sure
where it came from. We know
nothing about it, but we know
it’s in there.”
Workers at the Fifth Ave Key
Food’s meat department have
been picketing the store since
April 7, when management
locked them — and roughly
40 other workers hailing from
stores in Brooklyn and Long Island
— out of the market’s butchery
in retaliation for a lunchtime
rally that occurred earlier
BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
They’re dock-less!
The city has offi cially
abandoned its plan to bring
200 dockless bikes to Coney
Island, according to a spokeswoman
for the Department
of Transportation.
Agency honchos are instead
channeling all of their
energy into increasing the
number of untethered twowheelers
in the distant land
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BATTLE OF THE SEXES:
Genderqueer actor Russell
Peck plays Blanche.
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City drops Coney
bike share plan
Trans actor takes on Blanche
Banished butchers
question quality
of Key Food meat
Rosie Soko
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