Musicals that deal with AIDS
Musicals that deal with AIDS
#1Musicals that deal with AIDS
Posted: 7/16/08 at 1:43am
Besides Rent and Both Elegies. I am looking for shows(preferably musicals/songs) that deal with characters who have Aids or characters dealing with grief of loosing someone with Aids. any help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks a million
Jeffrey
IAP ALUMNI -Music and Theatre Major Class of 07.
#2re: Musicals that deal with AIDS
Posted: 7/16/08 at 1:45amFALSETTOS comes to mind.
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#2re: Musicals that deal with AIDS
Posted: 7/16/08 at 1:47amBFB, I agree, FALSETTOS was the first one that came to my mind.
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#3re: Musicals that deal with AIDS
Posted: 7/16/08 at 1:48am
I Cant believe i forgot Falsettos,haha thanks anymore ideas?
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Updated On: 7/16/08 at 01:48 AM
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
#5re: Musicals that deal with AIDS
Posted: 7/16/08 at 2:05am
LEASE: THE MUSICAL courtesy of TEAM AMERICA.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=o3FZOL3oZxo
Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
#6re: Musicals that deal with AIDS
Posted: 7/16/08 at 2:06am
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#7re: Musicals that deal with AIDS
Posted: 7/16/08 at 2:23amdoes that RAGING QUEENS one's title start with ELEGIES, can't recall. There is also THE QUILT but when i read the perusal and plunked out the music i wasn't impressed. It's a great idea for a musical, though....
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#8re: Musicals that deal with AIDS
Posted: 7/16/08 at 2:59amnot a musical... but Angels in America
[believe]
commasplice
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/29/04
#9re: Musicals that deal with AIDS
Posted: 7/16/08 at 3:44am
Dirty Dreams of a Clean-Cut Kid
All That He was
The Last Session
AIDS - The Musical!
The AIDS Show
A Hard Time to Be Single
An Unfinished Song
And Now, For My Next Life
Zero Patience: A Musical About AIDS
Most Men Are
Also, Angels in America has been adapted into an opera.
Friendofethelm
Chorus Member Joined: 7/19/08
#10re: Musicals that deal with AIDS
Posted: 7/19/08 at 10:02amTHE LAST SESSION by Steve Schalchlin and Jim Brochu is a wonderful, small cast show about living with AIDS that still resonates today. Also, their other, more recent Off-Broadway musical, THE BIG VOICE: GOD OR MERMAN?, though not exclusively about the illness, deals with it, too. For more information, visit Steve's website, www.bonusround.com.
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#11re: Musicals that deal with AIDS
Posted: 7/19/08 at 12:53pmDoesn't Dream True by Ricky Ian Gordon also deal with HIV? I haven't been able to find out much about the plot, but from what I've read, it sounds like it does.
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MrsSallyAdams
Broadway Star Joined: 11/12/13
#12re: Musicals that deal with AIDS
Posted: 4/9/19 at 12:36pm
I saw Zero Patience recently and was impressed. It's a Canadian film musical from 1993 about the flight attendant who was falsely accused of bringing AIDS to the U.S. His ghost, dubbed Patient Zero, haunts a scientist as they attempt to clear his name. The songs range from sweet to raunchy. Typical "I want" and "I love you" ballads mixed with drag queens singing about safe sex and naked men singing about bathhouse etiquette. I was expecting a train wreck but the film is quite enjoyable.
It was brought to my attention after reading some articles on "The New Queer Cinema" of the 1990's, thought it's more obscure than films like "The Living End" and "Swoon." You can purchase the DVD, and most of it is on YouTube, but it doesn't appear to be available on streaming services.
Here are some of the more safe for work clips:
Just Like Scheherazade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXf6fZPW2gU
Miss HIV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eVi4pPDdKI
Has anyone else here seen it?
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#13re: Musicals that deal with AIDS
Posted: 4/10/19 at 1:04pm
Also not a musical, but Jeffrey.
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#15re: Musicals that deal with AIDS
Posted: 4/10/19 at 2:11pmNot sure if this is what you meant, but Quilt: A Musical Celebration is a good one! https://www.mtishows.com/news/spotlighting-quilt-a-musical-celebration
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JSquared2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/23/17
#16re: Musicals that deal with AIDS
Posted: 4/10/19 at 3:59pm
There's also THE LIFE, which ends at the start of the AIDS epidemic.
ArtMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/08
#17re: Musicals that deal with AIDS
Posted: 4/10/19 at 4:47pm
JSquared2 said: "There's also THE LIFE, which ends at the start of the AIDS epidemic."
I originally was going to post The Life also. I saw the production on Broadway and remember tearing up (which is something I rarely do at a show). Then later, at the Tony's afterparty, tearing up again when I met Lilias White. Before I posted, I wanted to make sure I remembered the show correctly and I read the Wikepedia overview. There is no place in their write-up, that they mention any of the characters having Aids or the start of the epidemic. I remembered Lilias White's character in the show, stating she didn't feel good and didn't know why. I was thinking, because of what I read, do I remember this show differently?
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