Fd Gay Comedy Albums, Artists and Songs, and Hand-Picked Top Gay Comedy Mic on AllMic
Contents:
- PRAY THE GAY AWAY® THE MIL
- LGH YOUR FEARS AWAY WH 7 OF THE FUNNIT GAY COMEDIANS EVER
- JERROD CARMICHAEL OUT AS GAY HIS NEW EDY SPECIAL
- STEPHEN SONDHEIM LOVED HOW GAY BROADWAY’S ‘COMPANY’ REVIVAL IS, SAYS STAR MATT DOYLE
PRAY THE GAY AWAY® THE MIL
Jt bee pri weekend is past don’t mean the celebratns of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people on and off Broadway are over. * gay musical comedian *
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LGH YOUR FEARS AWAY WH 7 OF THE FUNNIT GAY COMEDIANS EVER
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JERROD CARMICHAEL OUT AS GAY HIS NEW EDY SPECIAL
He often jok that he knew he was gay before he knew he was 's sce lnched a succsful stand-up reer — appearg on "The Late Late Show Wh Jam Corn, " "Late Night Wh Seth Meyers, " "CONAN, " and more. But is only the past fifty years or so that tuners have actually featured openly gay characters onstage—and the rult has been some of the bt Broadway shows of all time.
If this same-sex central romance broke new ground, however, the show’s sre—by show-tune master Jerry Herman (Hello, Dolly!)—wears s classic Broadway sound like a sash of honor, om the openg para of cross-drsed beti to drag queen Zaza’s first-act fale (and stant gay-pri anthem) “I Am What I Am” through the celebratory “The Bt of Tim.” Revived on Broadway 2004 and 2010, the old girl has held up surprisgly well as a morn twist on nostalgia. A Chos Le (1975)Broadway began movg toward gay visibily the post-Stonewall era—the gay-bar scene Applse, Tommy Tune takg a long step forward Seaw—but was 1975’s A Chos Le that blew the closet door off s hg.
STEPHEN SONDHEIM LOVED HOW GAY BROADWAY’S ‘COMPANY’ REVIVAL IS, SAYS STAR MATT DOYLE
Several of the dners are gay, and Pl—a character moled on Nicholas Dante (who wrote the show’s book wh Jam Kirkwood Jr.)—is given one of the show’s only two solo spots onstage: an emotnal monologue about his trmatic childhood.