KINSEY SICKS "DRAGAPELLA" QUARTET TO PERFORM APRIL 24

The Kinsey Sicks, a group of performers that bills itself as "America's Favorite Dragapella Beautyshop Quartet," will perform at 8 p.m. on Saturday, April 24, in Thomas Great Hall. The show, sponsored by the SGA's Special Events Fund, is open to the public.

Tickets are $15 for the general public, $5 for college students with identification and $3 for students, faculty and staff of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges. Tickets will be sold at the door. For more information or to request advance tickets, please visit www.brynmawr.edu/activities.

With lyrics ranging from "racy and raunchy to just plain tacky," the Houston Chronicle has said, "Rachel," "Trixie," "Winnie" and "Trampolina" amuse audiences with "high energy, a brisk pace and some potent sight gags."

The Kinsey Sicks have been profiled on national television, won numerous a cappella awards, and recorded three CDs: Dragapella, Boyz 2 Girlz and Sicks in the City.

In 2001, the group produced and starred in their critically acclaimed Off-Broadway hit, DRAGAPELLA! Starring the Kinsey Sicks at Studio 54. That production received a nomination for a Lucille Lortel award (the Off-Broadway Tony) as Best Musical of 2001 and a Drama Desk Award nomination for Best Lyrics.

The group's name, Kinsey Sicks, is a pun on the scale of sexual orientation developed by sociologist Alfred Kinsey in the 1950s. On a 1-to-6 scale of sexuality, Kinsey "6" represented exclusively homosexual behavior.

Ben Schatz, Irwin Keller, Jeff Manabat and Wayne native Chris Dilley sing and perform satire in both original material and parodies of popular tunes. See the group's Web site at www.kinseysicks.com.

Both Schatz and Keller are civil-rights lawyers who see the act as one way to expose audiences to new issues. Some of their lyrics "push the envelope," said writer Schatz, such as a Goin' to the Chapel wedding song with its repeated "but we cannot get married" refrain. Schatz authored former President Bill Clinton's HIV policy during his 1992 campaign and played a key role in adding sexual orientation to Chicago's human-rights ordinance, which became law in 1988.

Dilley said the show has unique appeal to people of all sexual orientations, ages and relations. "As we travel around performing, we're finding that there are people everywhere with bad taste," said Dilley. "And that's inspiring."

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