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By Joanna DelBuono
Brooklyn Daily
Park Slope
Mae West once said that an ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
The borough’s first diva, the platinum-haired West was the saucy, sexy goddess that had men’s hearts aflutter. To celebrate her birthday, (she was born in Bushwick on Aug. 17, 1893), borough daughters LindaAnn LoSchiavo and Darlene Violette are putting on a performance of West’s first Broadway success, “Diamond Lil.”
LindaAnn, a long time fan of the devilish diva, has organized Mae West birthday bashes for the past nine years, and Darlene has worked on stage and on screen in appearances on “Law & Order,” “White Collar,” and “Ugly Betty,” among others.
The original three-hour production of the classic play has been pared down to about 85 minutes and stars Darlene as the famous West character doing the things she does best (wink, wink), and the performance promises to “feature all of the sex and none of the censorship” of the original production (wink, wink again!).
So come on down and see it on Aug. 17, 7:30 pm, at the John Strasberg Studios at 555 Eighth Ave. in Manhattan, where tickets are just 10 bucks, or on Aug. 18, 7 pm, inside Don’t Tell Mama at 343 W. 46th Street, a fancy place where ducats will run you $15.
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