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May 11, 2007 Issue # 39
Wig Out at Whimsical Event
Drag Icon Adora Featured at Unique Art Happening

By Kevin Wynn

Adora

Watch Adora Wig Out at Tigertail event Photo: Dale Stine

A moonlit night on the Miami River. An only-in-Miami crowd of artists and party people join aficionados of art and performance in an open, high-ceilinged space, its fourth wall open to the shining water.

Performance artists appear out of nowhere to dance or declaim before melting back into the crowd. There’s music in the air, art on the walls, gourmet nibbles everywhere.

And wigs. Lots and lots of wigs.

That’s because this event is not your ordinary fundraiser. “WigOut! On the River,” scheduled for 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Saturday, May 19, mixes whimsy with swank.

“We’ve planned ‘WigOut!’ as an event that will bring out the artist in all of us,” says Mary Luft, Tigertail Productions founder and executive director.

From Russia with Luck
Susan Westfall’s The Boy from Russia is Part Plan, Part Providence

By Jonathan Wemette

Susan Westfall and her son Pete

Susan Westfall and her son Pete in Red Square. Westfall’s play, The Boy from Russia, which is making its world premiere at Actor’s Playhouse, is based on Pete’s adoption.

“I have this tape that just came in…”

That was the chance moment that began Susan Westfall's long and often fortuitous journey to the upcoming world premiere of her play The Boy from Russia.

Westfall and her husband were visiting an adoption agency and Westfall had just expressed her belief that she was too old to raise another of what she calls “infant-baby-people.” The 7-year-old son she was already raising had been “infant-baby-people” experience enough.

That was when the adoption agent showed the couple a tape he had received from Russia.

“And the next thing I knew,” Westfall says, “a little boy showed up on a tricycle outside and something clicked. Just clicked.”

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