MUSIC
Indigo Girls: A Retrospective, a 15th-anniversary CD featuring two new songs from the Southern rock duo, arrives Oct. 3, just as the Girls begin a three-week U.S. tour. The Stephen Sondheim Album, a collection of musical-theater favorites featuring the voices of modern stage divas like Lea DeLaria and Dame Edna, arrives Oct. 1. And Poses, the sophomore album from pop traditionalist Rufus Wainwright, is due early next year.

STAGE
As befits Hollywood's most flamboyant bisexual ever, Tallulah Bankhead is the subject of two shows: Tallulah, a one-woman vehicle starring Kathleen Turner, which starts touring in October before hitting Broadway next spring, and the musical Tallulah Hallelujah!, opening Off Broadway Oct. 10. The Full Monty, with a movie-based book penned by Terrence McNally (Love! Valour! Compassion!) and featuring a major homosexual couple, opens Oct. 26. In fact, the fall season offers a wealth of plays by gay writers: Charles Busch's comedy The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, about a Manhattan woman in the throes of a midlife crisis; Gore Vidal's political drama The Best Man; and Prelude to a Kiss author Craig Lucas' Stranger, starring David Strathairn and Kyra Sedgwick. October brings a Broadway revival of The Rocky Horror Show, and topping it all off, designer-cum-dramatist Isaac Mizrahi makes his Off Broadway debut Oct. 5 in the self-penned LES MIZrahi, in which he sings, dances, and, yes, sews, all in a cabaret setting.

Originally posted Oct 06, 2000 Published in issue #562 Oct 06, 2000 Order article reprints
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