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Show D8 TheSalt Lake Tribuye ENTERTAINMENT heSaltLakeTribune ‘Confessions of a Mormon Boy’ Unflinchingly Honest Invites you (0 lore Utah. = @ DoTell For a man resigned to spending an eternity in the Telestial Spiritual Kingdom due to homoséxuality, Steven Fales seems pretty chipper. He has no qualmsabouthissitua. tion, except for being denied a visit to the Celestial Kingdom to be with his ex-wife and two children. Dance all autobiography and his future mother-in-law... In Wagner Pearson's autobiography Goodbye, I Love You, she-recounts how she married.a gay Performing Arts Center Black Box Theatre, 138 W. 300 South, man, divorced after haying four children andlater allowed him to come home. when-he wasdying of AIDS.” Thursday $15, $10 for students and groups. Call p.m. with a 3 p.m. matinee Sunday. Tickets are In many respects, “Confessions” feels like a sequel to Goodbye, I Love You, from the husband's perspective and a generation removed. Some of the LDS in-humor 355-ARTS. in Fales’ script may be too specialized for audiences out- Mother (described by Hales as a fabulous blend of “Auntie Mame, Bette Davis, Martha side of Utah (oneofhis higgest laughs is admitting to a preexistence crush on Jimmy Saints regarding homosexuality. While coming-out plays are fairly commonplace, the Stewart Winfrey...”) SinceSt. Peter comesfroma Flinders, a.central character unique LDS twists in Fales’ journey from self-denial to acceptance help make “Confes- Catholic background, Fales must explain the Mormoncon- sions” a compelling play, even if it doesn’t quite have the sheen of being a completely ouslytells ofhislife in the pre- cal “Saturday’s Warrior”), but he does a goodjob offinding places for laughs amid the confusion and hurt in hisfutile finished product. Sporting a black and white jumpsuit emblazoned with a LDS beliefs and to present his background). Jumping among huge pink triangle on the back (the symbol used by the Nazis to brand homosexuals during World WarIl), the 31-year-old author/ actor/ director and producer of “Confessions” plays himself as he recounts his life to St. Peter, who is searching for Fales’ name on the guestlist for a Celestial Tea Party thrown by a Heavenly and Oprah from the corny Mormon: musi- ception of Heaven and humorexistence (a clever device to educate those uninitiated with struggle to overcome his. homosexuality throughfaith and reparative therapy. Fales is a fine singer. and engagingactor. He bursts with creative enthusiasm in relat- different points in his life, Fales recounts stories of growing up, performing as a Brigham, Young University Young Ambassador and eventually marrying Emily, his “best ing an abundance of amusing and heartfelt anecdotes, but “Confessions” could benefit fromjudicious trimming., That's not to deny the enormous personal achievement Fales expresses through, his own self-acceptance, or, the friend”fromthe pre-existence. Fales also lays out the strangely coincidental connec- tion he has to the famed LDS love and longinghestill has for poet and author Carol Lynn Pearson, who would become his family. The way he performs his “Confessions” ua MINNA COOKS CARIBBEAN A Calorie-Counters Guide By Nyla Y. 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