ON THE FRINGE: Heavy Metal Dance Fag

POSTED: Wednesday, September 7, 2011, 11:00 AM

The steamy basement of St. Stephen’s is an apt place to witness the joyous and poignant South Philadelphian gender-fuck comedy where guidos buck, wing, tap and vogue and guidettes pump iron and bench press. “I’m a stripper, not a dancer,” says the hair-product-drenched Vincenzo (Peter Smith) when questioned about pole-dancing for gay men. Then again, nothing is what it seems in Heavy Metal Dance Fag land, what with the deceased Pops' double life and the likes of Bon Jovi and Poison as a soundtrack du jour for the straight-faced Timmy Bagley, played by Tribe of Fools artistic director Terry Brennan. Every actor plays his hard-ass part with smashing duality, and if you had any investment chops, you’d Kickstart HMDF into a long-term main-stage run.

Through Sept. 11, $20, St. Stephen's Theater, 10th and Ludlow streets. MORE INFO HERE.

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