Tag Archives: Broadway

Loretta Lynn has hand-picked pixie Zooey Deschanel to play the title role in the musical version of the story that won Sissy Spacek an Oscar. Lynn, 80, unveiled plans for a musical adaptation of “Coal Miner’s Daughter” during a Grand Ole Opry show at the Ryman Auditorium on Thursday night. Wearing one of her signature long-sleeve, floor-length dresses, the Country …

Last night intrepid JMG photographer Dr. Jeff accompanied me to the Family Equality Council’s 30th anniversary gala on Manhattan’s Pier 60, where over 750 LGBT moms, dads and allies swarmed the grand ballroom and mingled with bold-face names like Zach Wahls (so tall!), Tony winner David Hyde Pierce, comedian Judy Gold, Bishop Gene Robinson, Freedom To Marry head Evan Wolfson, …

The 2012 Tony Awards nominations were announced this morning, with the musical Once leading the pack with a whopping eleven nods. As usual, The Gays are heavily represented. As quick glance at the list shows Douglas Carter Beane, Harvey Fierstein, Cynthia Nixon. Who else?

And here’s her first ever charting single, People. The clip below is from her Oscar-winning performance in the 1968 movie version of Funny Girl, but the single reached #5 on the Billboard pop chart when it was first released from the 1964 original Broadway cast recording. Yes kids, Babs had her first hit record 48 years ago.

Via press release: Golden Globe-nominated and Emmy Award-winning actor, Neil Patrick Harris, will return as host of the 2012 Antoinette Perry “Tony” Awards® on Sunday, June 10th, live from the Beacon Theatre in New York City. This will be the third time that Harris has hosted the telecast, previously serving as host for both the 63rd Annual Tony Awards in …

With a Jonas brother and openly gay actor Michael Urie, this weekend NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg performed in a charity Broadway show. Details of Inner Circle 2012 are here.

The riotously raunchy Broadway Bares will stage its 22nd annual show at the Roseland Ballroom on June 17th. Always the hottest ticket of the year (no kidding), the event benefits Equity Fights AIDS and features the hottest bods that tread the boards of Broadway. This year’s show has a fairy tales theme and the gentlemen above will deliver their version …

Last night Mamma Mia’s Andrew Chapelle took the tiara in the Ali Forney Center’s Sixth Annual Broadway Beauty Pageant, their gay gay gay and wonderfully hilarious competition among Broadway’s most talented chorus boys. Participants included Andrew Chappelle (Mamma Mia!), Wilkie Ferguson, III (Porgy and Bess), Corey Mach (Godspell), Jesse Swimm (Mary Poppins) and Anthony Wayne (Priscilla Queen of the Desert). …

Theater Mania tips us to rehearsal photos from the coming edition of Ali Forney Center’s Broadway Beauty Pageant, the annual gay gay gay competition of Broadway’s most talented chorus boys. Tickets are still available, but may sell out before the Monday show. I’ll be there!

Tonight Maggie Gallagher’s eldest son Patrick will debut a song at an AIDS fundraiser at The Duplex, a gay cabaret and nightclub in Manhattan’s West Village. For those unaware, Patrick says that he identifies as straight despite working in what is arguably the single gayest industry in the world. His Twitter profile reads: “Librettist, Lyricist. I love the Knicks, Stephen …

Previews begin Monday at the Marquis Theatre.

The seventh annual edition of Broadway Backwards plays this Monday at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. This gay gay gay show features major stars performing numbers written for the opposite sex. Think one dozen hot nearly naked chorus boys singing I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair. Or Cheyenne Jackson singing You’re The Top to Sandra Bernhard.

Time Out New York today posts their ten hottest chorus boys cast in Broadway shows set to open this spring. Now THAT is how you promote the new season. (And naturally, my example is the furriest one of the bunch.)

Phantom Of The Opera had its 10,000th Broadway performance yesterday. While “Phantom” has prospered from unparalleled word of mouth, a show as much for sightseers as for theatergoers, its unprecedented Broadway run has hardly been a foregone conclusion. When it opened on Jan. 26, 1988, big hits were few, and roughly half of Broadway’s theaters were empty. Yet thanks to …

The Ali Forney Center’s annual Broadway Beauty Pageant pits the Great White Way’s best chorus boys against each other in a celebrity-judged night of gay gay gay hilarity. I never miss it and you shouldn’t either. Pick up discounted tickets now through Valentine’s Day for the March 19th event.

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