Director/wrer David Galligan has filtered much of the gay and lbian experience through this fast-paced mil revue, featurg 22 songs and sketch performed by an outstandg six-member ensemble. Galligan's stagg, gmented by the choreography of Tony Kaye and Kay Cole, is sparse but highly ventive, effectively highlightg the reali and absurdi, humor and pathos of livg an "alternative" liftyle. The mil numbers were provid by many of L.A.'s most gifted wrers, cludg the legendary Billy Barn, whose irreverent openg number, "The Gay '90s," featur the ensemble full turn-of-the-century regalia. The stum are quickly disrd, however, as the sually attired st of three women and three men segue to a seri of illumatg mil and spoken vigt.
Contents:
- THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME
- THE GAY SONGWRERS WHO SECRETLY LED THE UNTRY CHARTS ARE READY FOR THE SPOTLIGHT
- A STRANGE LOOP REVIEW: BLACK, BIG, GAY WRER GETS NAVEL-GAZY AND TUNEFUL
- THE GAY ’90S MIL
- AMY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: DONNA GAY ANRSON
THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME
Michael R. Jackson's Tony and Pulzer Prize-wng mil is about a young Black gay mil theater wrer named Usher, who works as an her at a Broadway show — jt like Jackson once did. * musical writer gay *
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THE GAY SONGWRERS WHO SECRETLY LED THE UNTRY CHARTS ARE READY FOR THE SPOTLIGHT
Gay-themed Broadway mils have e a long way the past fifty years. The on are the bt. * musical writer gay *
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And I wasn't really out at school except amongst, like, a sort of secret society of other Black gay boys, for the most part, and other, you know, queer kids who were around .
A STRANGE LOOP REVIEW: BLACK, BIG, GAY WRER GETS NAVEL-GAZY AND TUNEFUL
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THE GAY ’90S MIL
“A Strange Loop” is a mil about a big, gay black guy who is stgglg to wre a mil about a big, gay black guy who is stgglg..... Michael R. Jackson, the mil’s talented book wrer, poser, lyricist and vol arranger, scrib himself as a big, gay black guy; he’s been stgglg to wre “A… * musical writer gay *
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AMY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: DONNA GAY ANRSON
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And I was somewhat on the outsi of that even then among, like, my peer so then when I me to New York where I had been told that I was gog to have, like, the time of my life as a gay man and that I was gog to have all this sex and that was gog to be jt like a grand, old party, what I learned is that I was at the bottom of the food cha as far as that go. And I had to really orient myself to what meant to be a gay man New York Cy at that time, as somebody who was short and fat and did not have any of the sort of physil attribut that would make one sort of popular , you know, gay, male, sexual scene as I unrstood or as I knew how to be. Somethg that I've been thkg about recently is that I did not have any gay elrs, and so there was no one to tell me what to do or where to go or how to do anythg.
And so every sort of experience that I had as a gay man New York was by me makg mistake after mistake after mistake, or like - or jt fumblg around kd of the dark, tryg to figure out how to be, how to f . He studied unr Frank Bridge, John Ireland and Arthur Benjam among others, and was also a fe ground-breakg operas, which clu Peter Grim (1945), and The Turn of the Screw (1954) – and his famo War Requiem – tackle ntemporaneo issu around psychology and post-war trma, as well his own homosexualy, which was illegal Brten’s lifetime. As well as beg one of the first openly gay posers full stop, Poulenc also didn’t chew his sexualy the ntext of his relig posns spanned om timate chamber sonatas wh sublime, twistg melodi and lite imprsnist harmoni (thk the 1957 Flute Sonata), to his Piano Concerto and epic one-act opera for soprano and orchtra, La voix humae.
Mic historian Ellen Harris leads on the se for Hanl’s homosexualy, argug that his ntatas exhib a clear homosexual subtext her book Hanl as Orphs.
Toby Oliver Samuel Marlow is a Jewish-English wrer, poser, lyricist, and actor. They posed and -wrote Six the Mil wh Lucy Moss. Toby openly intifi as nonbary and gay. They are the olr siblg of Annabel Marlow, who played Kathere Howard at the Edburgh Frge 2017... * musical writer gay *
And like them, he was associated wh gay clergyman, Cardal Pietro Baroque poser and vlist is known for his chamber sonatas and ncerti grossi, and has gone down history for refg to play a sectn of Hanl’s orator, The Triumph Of Time And Tth, bee a vl note went higher than Corelli believed appropriate for the stment.
Unlike Copland, US poser Samuel Barber ma no effort to keep his homosexualy out of explic view and his life partner was poser Gian Carlo Menotti, who he studied wh at the Curtis Instute. Leonard Bernste also studied at the Curtis Instute wh Barber and Menotti (see above), and although he had an on-aga-off-aga relatnship wh actor Felicia Cohn Montealegre and eventually married her, he was openly gay.