Broadway's 'Take Me Out' director Stt Ellis talks how he readied his st for Richard Greenberg's play about a gay Black baseball player.
Contents:
- JSE WILLIAMS WEIGHS ON BEG A STRAIGHT MAN PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER BROADWAY'S TAKE ME OUT
- STT ELLIS TALKS ABOUT THE BROADWAY GAY-THEMED BASEBALL PLAY 'TAKE ME OUT'
- JSE WILLIAMS MAK HIS BROADWAY DEBUT WH A GAY ROLE ‘TAKE ME OUT’
- 'GREY'S ANATOMY' STAR JSE WILLIAMS MAK A SE FOR WHY STRAIGHT ACTORS N PLAY GAY ROL HIS BROADWAY BUT, 'TAKE ME OUT'
JSE WILLIAMS WEIGHS ON BEG A STRAIGHT MAN PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER BROADWAY'S TAKE ME OUT
Former 'Grey's Anatomy' star Jse Williams was to the ongog bate over straight actors playg gay characters as he embarks on dog jt that Broadway's 'Take Me Out' * gay take me out *
His cisn to open up about his sexualy sparks a firtorm of homophobia and racism the sport, particularly his own locker room. But Williams is also engagg wh another proment topic of discsn — whether straight actors should play gay characters.
STT ELLIS TALKS ABOUT THE BROADWAY GAY-THEMED BASEBALL PLAY 'TAKE ME OUT'
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Dealg wh tolerance and and the racism and homophobia that e up the play, do you have to parse the nuanc between those two thgs or is all one big meltg pot of horrible people? The former Grey’s Anatomy actor plays a biracial baseball player who out as gay at the height of his reer.
JSE WILLIAMS MAK HIS BROADWAY DEBUT WH A GAY ROLE ‘TAKE ME OUT’
Jse Williams and Patrick Adams star the new Broadway revival of Richard Greenberg’s Tony-wng play “Take Me Out," about a gay baseball player. * gay take me out *
For all the bety of a well-executed h and n and the ceremony of a home n, there is also the off-the-field snipg, a hateful Twter rant and an ocsnal work one hand, Take Me Out is the story of Mason Marzac (aka Marz, played by Jse Tyler Fergon), a gay fancial adviser whose volvement the re cint has led him, to fall love wh the game. Avery on Grey's Anatomy, who makg his Broadway but), the gay superstar and a person of lor who out the closet and the mayhem that rults. Homophobia is ont and center.
He's a homophobe. You're tght to be a racist; you're tght to be homophobic. Stori on tribalism, homophobia, hate speech hate crim lead the daily news feed, not to mentn the Twtersphere.
Acrdg to the New York Theatre Gui, the stage play, which revolv around baseball and homophobia, is schled to beg previews on March 09, 2022, and will officially open the followg month on April 04, 2022. Williams to Play a Gay CharacterActor Williams will play the character of a mixed-race baseball star named Darren Lemmg the Broadway revival of Take Me Out.
'GREY'S ANATOMY' STAR JSE WILLIAMS MAK A SE FOR WHY STRAIGHT ACTORS N PLAY GAY ROL HIS BROADWAY BUT, 'TAKE ME OUT'
In the story, set the early 2000s, Lemmg out as gay and tackl homophobia and racism.
Blatant homophobia and transphobia is rampant thanks to the lik of Republin policians like Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton, Lren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and many others propagatg anti-LGBTQ hate Fierste on Love, Broadway, Secrets, Addictn, and Fightg Anti-LGBTQ BigotryLast year, almost 20 years after Take Me Out was first performed, Bryan Ruby ma history as the first out gay profsnal baseball player, tellg USA Today that he wanted “to help create a world where future generatns of baseball players don’t have to sacrifice thenticy or who they really are to play the game they love. The gay baseball player is not alone, isolated, bullied, rejected.