Bonus video! Vampires on Broadway and The Shawl Mystery (TM) Solved
Added 2021-09-27 18:21:31 +0000 UTCThanks to everyone who sent me clips & pics & memories of queer Broadway stuff (just in time for the Tonys!) after the last bonus video -- I love it! Keep it coming! Here's some highlights of stuff I missed (and at least one thing I got wrong), along with a never-meant-to-air video of the All in the Family cast making fun of The Family Viewing Hour and Captain Picard getting weird.
If the video embed isn't working for you, try this link:
https://youtu.be/N762Yh3kEIQ
And here's some additional recommended viewing:
- Dance of the Vampires on Broadway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWYn3cCdIwI
- And the best number from the vastly superior German version -- God this show is so good!!! https://youtu.be/QJURjF51LFE
- Picard sings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHKSYGYP4a0
- All in the Family cast doing a theme song parody (note what a great singer Jean Stapleton is when she doesn't have to do the intense Edith-affectation): https://youtu.be/IvrIltxWnS0
I'm working on a video next about the unlikely cooperation behind the scenes of the show Barney Miller -- and it's even more unlikely gay connection to Mork & Mindy and Happy Days. That oughta be out this coming Sunday.
Thanks again for all your support here on Patreon, and for all the wonderful fun stuff you send me!
Matt
Comments
The Ritz, not The Rink. The Ritz is a play starring Rita Moreno (who won a Tony). He's wrong about it being a musical though. Rita's character has a musical performance in the middle, but it's not a musical.
Bret Chisenhall
2022-01-16 22:40:33 +0000 UTCAnd you didn't even show the line from Archie where he sings "Robert can propose to Bill"...
Martijn Spruit
2021-12-16 21:17:28 +0000 UTCMy favourite story from In Trousers has to be when Chip Zien (who played Marvin) thought that the song Whizzer Going Down was referring to Whizzer going to Florida, great video!
Linley J
2021-11-01 03:40:18 +0000 UTCMatt thank you for this. I am a trained opera singer who did her share of semi pro stuff. But all my life I've been obsessed with the musical and opera scene of the 70s. I have this vision of how it was. I truly wish I could have been a student/new performer in that Era. So you just added too my collection of confirmation how awesome it was and the talent we love who started there.
Laura Estrada
2021-10-31 20:03:43 +0000 UTCI had a feeling you'd like it!
Matt Baume
2021-10-01 18:10:45 +0000 UTCOh geez I did not mean to insinuate any ~gossip~ about Steve, just that it's weird to see him playing a queer role and also of course that he's a star of the Village People movie Can't Stop the Music.
Matt Baume
2021-09-30 19:20:36 +0000 UTCThanks for more great content!
Tonya
2021-09-29 18:59:42 +0000 UTCSo thrilled to be a part of the circle! Your little corner is always a pleasure to gaze.
James Polk
2021-09-29 15:39:58 +0000 UTCI too have questions.
Kaeleigh Post
2021-09-29 11:54:15 +0000 UTCOk, so I just spent 2 hours watching Dance of the Vampires... that was utterly terrible and amazing, all at the same time. Got some good chuckles out of it for sure.
Nini L
2021-09-28 09:32:50 +0000 UTCRight? I have questions.
Deanna McMillan
2021-09-28 05:42:53 +0000 UTCCould you send me the link
Nicole Brett
2021-09-28 02:24:01 +0000 UTCThe video doesn’t exist
Nicole Brett
2021-09-28 02:22:03 +0000 UTCI music directed and conducted "In Trousers" a long time ago in Washington DC. Written by William Finn ... it was the first part of his "Marvin Trilogy," which included "March of the Falsettos" and "Falsettoland." Finn and James Lapine then fused these shows into what became "Falsettos" which I also conducted 8 years ago at a NJ community theater.
Rory Chalcraft
2021-09-28 02:08:05 +0000 UTCYour Sal Mineo reference led me to this great interview with Mineo's partner Courtney Burr. Great Broadway gossip & descriptions of Hollywood's gay culture in the 60's/70's https://www.boyculture.com/boy_culture/2011/04/the-twinkie-defense-an-interview-with-courtney-burr.html
Artemus
2021-09-27 22:08:39 +0000 UTCWait, Steve Guttenberg? Complicated Sexuality? What?
Fred Maxon
2021-09-27 21:30:07 +0000 UTCOMG the shawl reveal! :)
Artemus
2021-09-27 20:40:09 +0000 UTCAnother great video as always! Quick correction: The 1984 original Broadway production of 'The Rink' starred Chita Rivera (along with Liza Minnelli and Jason Alexander), not Rita Moreno. Chita did win a Tony and a Drama Desk award for it though.
Jackie Schneider
2021-09-27 20:28:31 +0000 UTC
