May I have THIS dance?! (Image via video still)
Pablo & Kiko prove in this video from last year that two men can and should be featured on shows like Dancing with the Stars ...
Mac's gay boogie (Image via FX)
If you're not watching It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, maybe you should be.
Check out the show's much-talked-about dance sequence, featuring newly jacked Mac (Rob McElhenney) finding his gay pride ...
It was the night of 1,000 Madonnas. (Images by Matthew Rettenmund)
I've never gotten around to attending Cathy Cervenka's annual Madonnathon — but its 15th-anniversary year seemed a good enough excuse to finally go!
If Madonna had gone, her career would've flashed before her eyes!
My co-author Anthony Coombs and I also promised to provide one of the first copies of our new book MLVC60 to one of the costume-contest winners of the Halloween bash, so we had even more reason to go.
I wish I'd taken even more pictures, but I was busy talking with people and missed some of the performances. The ones I saw were outstanding!
Go ahead and take a pole — the results will show that Esther was both sticky and sweet!
Esther was sensational in a sizzling set that incorporated so many phases of Madonna's career it left people (wait for it) breathless, and she had the good sense to include hunky dancers. She was top-notch, and I've seen many Madonna-themed acts.
Blond ambition ahoy!
I was also wowed by a rap/thrash take on “Bitch I'm Madonna” and vocal pyrotechnics on renditions of “Live to Tell” and “Don't Cry for Me, Argentina” that raised the roof of the Highline Ballroom.
Does your bottom hurt just thinkin' about it?
Then there was a perfectly whimsical “Vogue” done in the style of Madonna'a 1990 MTV performance, except sung live, and hostess Cathy wowed with her own live set, backed up by two zaftig dancers who opened their hearts while opening minds on what the “perfect” body size is.
Madonna Power!
There were quite a few others, and the appreciative crowd was never disappointed. I'll have to make this a tradition!
Keep reading for more pix from the night ...
We are a part of an endangered nation ... (Image via Jack Tracy)
Jack Tracy, inspired by Janet Jackson, contributes this music video urges LGBTQ voters (and others!) to take the midterms seriously and under as much damage as possible ...
It's like a musical, visual Big Little Lies (Image via video still)
Dedicated to all the abused women — specifically trans women — who have been abused, the music video “bruised” by Mila Jam is here, and it features Laverne Cox, MJ Rodriguez, Yuhua Hamasaki and Ryan Preimiesberger ...
ABOVE: Gives new meaning to “well-hung.”
(Image via La MaMa)
UPDATE: Extended through October 14!
Gunnar Montana's throbbing Kink Haüs, currently playing at La MaMa (66 E. 4th St., NYC) through October 6, is billed as fringe, but I came away thinking it was more mainstream than it realizes — and I think the patron who brought her 12-year-old daughter would agree with me.
Regardless of how out-there or in-here the show actually is, it's an attention-grabbing, joyful gender-romp that is athletically choreographed and a visual smorgasbord ...
The song and dance man himself! (Image via MatthewMorrison.com)
Broadway World's Wayman Wong lands an exclusive talk with Matthew Morrison, who is embarking on a cabaret tour that begins September 30 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. His show, Song and Dance Man, sounds like a continuation of the greats of the form.
In the piece, Morrison says of his show:
Dance has always been so special and unique to what I do. Some of it's choreographed. Some of it's just me being inspired by the music. I can't help it. I'm a mover. It's just who I am. And I love Broadway, so I'll be singing songs I've done there, from Hairspray, The Light in the Piazza and South Pacific. I've always felt I was born in the wrong era. I love the standards.
Old Shue (Image by Anthony Cutajar)
He really has always seemed like a throwback ...
