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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.

The New Yorker

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The Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, a travesty troupe, with men darting about on point as sylphs and odalisques, made its debut in 1974 in a loft on Fourteenth Street managed by the West Side Discussion Group, a homophile organization. The stage was a twelve-by-twelve piece of plywood; the audience sat on folding chairs. "The place was on the second floor, and the stairs were steep," says Eugene McDougle, an archeologist who lost his heart to that show and has been the general director of the company ever since. "The Fire Department could have closed us down." So could the ballet authorities. With a cast of ten, the show had only two men who could actually do classical ...

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