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- GAY ACTOR WENT AFTER ROLE ‘ANGELS AMERI’ LIKE A BLOODHOUND
- DON'T GET THE OUTRAGE OVER JACK WHEHALL 'PLAYG GAY'? LISTEN TO THE QUEER ACTORS
GAY ACTOR WENT AFTER ROLE ‘ANGELS AMERI’ LIKE A BLOODHOUND
The part of Prr, a young gay New Yorker bieged by AIDS and abandonment, is a role he’s long wanted to do, and almost did several tim, but somehow never worked out until now wh Arena’s staged--the-round productn helmed by Hungarian director János Szász. How ee gay life was beg and how much fun everyone was havg.
It’s so amazg to do this play wh gay people — the referenc and unrstandg is there. I’ve worked wh straight actors gay plays who’ve asked “OK, why Judy Garland?
” Or they tell me how they’ve rearched to be gay. BLADE: For some gay theatergoers “Angels” is a tough show.
DON'T GET THE OUTRAGE OVER JACK WHEHALL 'PLAYG GAY'? LISTEN TO THE QUEER ACTORS
I have my nts (gay men who’ve survived the crisis) g to see the show, and I’m here for those who aren’t here. I’ve worked wh a lot of the great gay wrers like Mart Crowley and Harvey Fierste and Edmund Whe and now my iend Tony Khner. It’s meangful for me to do the piec om not only the Amerin theatril non but also the gay non.
Nick Wtrate is an openly gay actor you might regnize — or you might not, nsirg how dramatilly different many of his rol have been.