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Vagina Victory Party

Starry eve for V-day 'Monologues'

By MARIANNE GOLDSTEIN

New York Daily News Feb 11, 2001

Madison Square Garden reverberated with the ecstatic chant of "Vagina! Vagina!" last night as scores of female celebrities took the stage to celebrate that which sets women apart from men.

"We took back the Garden!" declared playwright Eve Ensler, as she introduced a gala production of her off-Broadway hit "The Vagina Monologues."

Wearing a lush red satin gown and standing triumphantly barefoot on the floor of the venue better known as the home of the decidedly vagina-free New York Knicks, Ensler welcomed the evening's superstar cast.

"Oprah is in the house!" Ensler cheered.

As was Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda, Glenn Close, Rosie Perez, Queen Latifah, Marisa Tomei, Brooke Shields, Claire Danes, Amy Irving, Julia Stiles and Isabella Rossellini — all of whom were assembled to perform a Valentine to women's bodies.

The show was a benefit for the V-Day Foundation, a charity Ensler started to raise awareness — and dollars — for women and girls around the world who fall prey to violence. V-Day celebrations also took place simultaneously at hundreds of campuses and other cities around the country.

Each of the seats was draped with red ribbon emblazoned "Rape Free Zone"

The monologues — 18 spoken pieces about women's relationships to that very special part of their bodies — are by turns funny, brave, knowing and tragic. Ensler revamped her work for the benefit, adding music, dance and a special speech written for "Ally McBeal" star Calista Flockhart, entitled "My Short Skirt."

The Garden event, though, is a far cry from the way Ensler first performed the piece five years ago: by herself, on a bare stage and in the trademark bare feet.

The 47-year-old writer said she got the idea after speaking with a friend, "a forward-thinking woman" who was going through menopause and "had nothing but contempt for her own body."

After interviewing more than 200 women of various ages and backgrounds, she discovered that "women have so much shame surrounding their own bodies. And for many of them, it was hard just saying the word. But once we got past the first shock, they couldn't stop talking."

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), February 12, 2001

Answers

Penis Power Party

June 17, 2001

Yankee Stadium

-- (MachoMan@Father's.Day), February 13, 2001.


Penis Power is a production of WJC, LLC.

-- (MachoMan@Yankee.Stadium), February 13, 2001.

I'd rather shop and compare at a penis party than a vagina party.

-- female (female@upfrontt.arouse), February 13, 2001.

...women have so much shame surrounding their own bodies. And for many of them, it was hard just saying the word...

Speaking of bodies, V is also for: vertebrae, vermiform appendix, vulva, ventricle, vena cava, viscera and... vas deferens! Once you get over your shame and start talking about them, you'll never want to stop.

-- Little Nipper (canis@minor.net), February 13, 2001.


Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.

-- Socrates (our@time.is.short), February 13, 2001.


Well I bet Brooke Shields has a nice, uh, vertabrate.......

Deano

-- Deano (deano@luvthebeach.com), February 13, 2001.


Is Brooke Shields still a virgin? Nah, not with those eyebrows.

-- (nemesis@awol.com), February 13, 2001.

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