ABOVE: Next year will be the 100th anniversary of Bea Arthur's birth. And hopefully next year, in January, we will be celebrating Betty White's 100th birthday.
He's from Iowa and probably not single. (Image by Alan Light)
ABOVE: It's a time to reflect on the year that was.
Via Mr. Man:
We can't wrap our minds around the fact that both Matt Bomer and Andrew Rannells show their penises in the new Netflix movie The Boys in the Band ...
The boys nail some tough issues in this short talk. (Image via Tamron Hall)
Zachary Quinto, Charlie Carver and Robin de Jesús visited Tamron Hall — Tamron is killing it with her show, BTW — to talk about some of big changes for LGBTQ people since the time that the play on which their new Netflix movie The Boys in the Band was written:
Through a glass, darkly (Image via Netflix)
I wonder if any play has ever been adapted to film with better intentions than Mart Crowley's The Boys in the Band (1968) was for Netflix by director Joe Mantello and über producer Ryan Murphy.
The chief creatives and the entire cast are gay and, as demonstrated in interviews since their take on the controversial classic became a Broadway smash in 2018 — as well as during a press-only Zoom Q&A two nights ago — possess clear-eyed appreciation for both the source material and its recently deceased author, with whom the men became close in the last years of his life.
And yet, while this newest Boys isn't exactly a stain on the play's legacy, it is a surprising and clear swing and miss.
ABOVE: Nothing wrong with that.
Jena VanElslander strips Henry Byalikov in “Pinball” (All images by Matthew Rettenmund)
Father's Day wouldn't be Father's Day without another installment of Broadway Bares, the annual burlesque event founded by the great Jerry Mitchell to raise cash for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
Joe Beauregard at left
Even though I'm old enough to be the dad of a large percentage of the dancers, I suppose I can look at them as “zaddies,” or just use the millennial “dad” for anyone hot, regardless of whether they're 18 or 80. (They're usually not 80.)
Buncha Sexy Broadway Bares Posts HERE!
This year's show, Broadway Bares: Game Night, riffed on a theme of classic games — sometimes board (Clue, Battleship), never boring — on its way to raising a whopping $1,875,090 at two standing-room-only performances at the Hammerstein Ballroom. The event was all fun and games, but left out the childhood favorite Risk in favor of encouraging audience members to instead play it safe sexually.
In a Pitfall-inspired sketch called “Video Games,” Matthew Skrincosky was champing at the bit!
Less a game of chance than a game of dance, Game Night was packed with players, strokes of luck, and oodles of team effort.
Yes, You Can Buy This Shit on DVD!!!
It all paid off with a series of performances as successful artistically as they were financially — and all for a good cause ...
