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We got Scumbly Koldewyn of Cockettes fame to play the piano. Peanut, the tap dancing Planter's Peanut Man in Beach Blanket Babylon, died of AIDS. When I called her, she told me that she'd thought about doing an AIDS benefit ever since the original Mr. By 1984, Val Diamond was the star of Beach Blanket Babylon in North Beach, but they were dark on Mondays. The Bay Area Reporter's leather columnist, Mister Marcus, agreed to emcee the production, a virtual guarantee that he would promote the hell out of it in his column, and I suggested getting a guest star for the finale. Then we invited the San Francisco Tap Troupe to give the show some class. Our original plan was to use only bartenders in the show, but we soon added othersâ€"friends of bartenders, bar owners, cocktail waiters, bar backs, bouncers, and basically anyone who had ever set foot inside a bar. He decided to use that as part of the show, so we rewrote the lyrics to "You Gotta Get a Gimmick" and put together a take-off on the song with himself and two other sexy bartenders demonstrating what made their bartending skills special.
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"But to have no talent is not enough!" is a line from Gypsy, Jim's favorite musical.
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Somehow that one night turned into ten years of my life. Drummer contests at the Russian River, he thought I'd be the perfect person to help him put together this one-night show, and we decided to make it a benefit for Shanti. He told me that ever since we had worked together on the Mr. Divine had been in town with a play called Wo men Behind Bars at the Alcazar Theatre, so Jim decided we should call our show Men Behind Bars. In the winter of 1983-84, Jim Cvitanich had an idea to put on an AIDS benefit variety show featuring area bartenders, since so many of them were frustrated performers.