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Just here to upvote Dominique Jackson as Hannigan.

I'm into it. It might give Pen15 as a movie musical vibes.

Brittain Ashford showed off one of the most uniquely colored voices I've ever heard on a broadway stage in Great Comet. She's up there for me and I hope she gets another plum role soon.

Damon Daunno has become my favorite crooning leading man with his turns in Oklahoma! and Hadestown. When he goes high, I go o0ohhhhh.

Someone please do a vehicle for the two of them. 

 

Reva Rice was my first and fav!

Ali Stroker as Nessarose?

Missy Pyle would be disgustingly perfect for this!! 

Remember when she was the best thing about the bare revival?

There have been millions! What are some noteworthy productions of Seussical, preferably with lovely paper/video trails.

A vpn doesnt work.

Toni/Anya Gypsy would be an embarrassment of nuanced riches. 

^ Donna Murphy would be a marvelous Alternate Vera Charles to Toni Collette.

Imagine Donna SLAYING Arkadina on the Tuesdays and matinees Tracee Ellis Ross is out!

Rebecca Naomi Jones as Mrs. Walker pretty please!

https://ew.com/tv/rupauls-drag-race-queens-rev-up-for-drive-n-drag-summer-drive-in-tour/

Meh, I'd rather see Yvie Oddly from my car anyway.

Ok but who wrote the play Young Jean Lee posted about?

Drag Queens are doing the most innovative work with their streams. Drag artists like JukuForNow, Florida Man, Laurel Charleston, and West Dakota are really pushing the boundaries for this stifled performance form with filters and fun, simple camera tricks. I recommend performers and theatremakers looking to the drag shows of Instagram live and twitch to learn some tricks. 

Wick3 said: "rougeduck said: "https://medium.com/@TyleKurner/goodbye-to-all-that-matthew-lopezs-the-inheritance-e0ef942cc9c1

Here’s a delicious review more in line with most of the gays I’ve spoken to."

Wow that reviewsums up what a lot of my gay friends have told me as well.I agree with this quote: "It is being marketed and touted as something gay people should, or need to, see. It is delivered ready to be canonized. That many of its leading cast members are straight turns affectation into artificiality into a kind of betrayal."

I believe that representation matters especially now that it's 2019."

Yassss queen. I basically double posted this. Producers and directors must take actual care of the communities they present onstage.


As Julio Torres and Bowen Yang (actual pioneering gay writers) so eloquently wrote on last week's SNL, "must get rid of toxic in community."

Brock75 said: "As good as the actors are, the biggest slap in the face is that out of the company, the majority of the actorsare straight. Especially the leads. Only Hickey is a gay man out of the 5 main characters: Soller, Burnap, Levine and Hilton are all straight. If Lopez is "preaching to/teaching" the audience about the history of gay men what kind of reference do these actors have? Ryan Murphy's revival of "Boys in the Band" was publicized heavily that each of the actors were gay. There is a knowledge there. An understanding. An actual history. I can't believe this hasn't been more of a talking point. I understand that all actors can play any number of characters, blah, blah, blah and shouldn't be typecast, BUT! Don't get me wrong, the acting was terrific, I am taking away nothing from their work. It is just an ethical point to me. Lopez constantly reminds us about our history and understanding, but how can these actors even imagine what it is like to walk in our shoes? Shouldn't the casting process be about authenticity with a play like this? The "gay play of the decade" and the majority of the actors are straight? I might in the minority here, but it was insulting to me."

Kyle Turner is the only critic to mention this in his Medium review and it holds great importance. How odd it is that for the second year in a row, there is an important 2 part gay broadway epic with a messiah-like queer character in its center who is written to break the fourth wall to address "his community..." played by a known straight actor. This isn't allyship, it is just sad. There still hasn't been a major American film to star a gay actor playing a gay lead. Representation with equity is so important and this show preaches a gay identity beyond men having sex with men- a noble sentiment that is not in any way adhered to by the theatre-making. It's just a nearly all-male cast which is hardly groundbreaking no matter how the marketing treats it.