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#26

re: Favorite

Posted: 6/25/05 at 7:59pm

Molina in "Kiss of the Spider Woman"

And for a play, I really do love Mason in "Take Me Out" - brilliant.

#27

re: Favorite

Posted: 6/25/05 at 8:17pm

Roger Debris from The Producers and Herbert from Spamalot!

"Mrrraaaawwww!" ♥

#28

re: Favorite

Posted: 6/25/05 at 8:20pm

I would say, Angel from RENT, Rod from AVENUE Q, and Peter Allen from THE BOY FROM OZ (played by the wonderful Hugh)!!!

"Sometimes when you dream, your dreams come true..."

#29

re: Favorite

Posted: 6/25/05 at 8:25pm

Of course! Peter Allen! How could I forget!

"Mrrraaaawwww!" ♥

#30

Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not

Posted: 6/25/05 at 8:27pm

I'll go on on the non PC limb and say Harold in BOYS IN THE BAND. Made immortal by Leonard Frey, may he RIP.

"..What I am, Michael, is a thirty-two-year-old, ugly, pock-marked Jew fairy--and if it takes me a while to pull myself together and if I smoke a little grass before I can get up the nerve to show this face to the world, it's nobody's g-d---m business but my own. And how are YOU this evening."

Timeless. (It's all subjective, but I'll take his self-depricating wit and survivor skills over Albin's forced platitudes any day).

"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling

Updated On: 6/25/05 at 08:27 PM

#31

Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not

Posted: 6/25/05 at 8:39pm

Peter from Bare is my all time favorite after that though, i'd have to say Mark from altar boyz

#32

Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not

Posted: 6/25/05 at 8:48pm

I know I'm going to get blasted for saying this, but:

If your only knowledge of the gay theatre movement is Bare or AltarBoyz, PLEASE check out the many plays and musicals you have not experienced yet from the 20th century. Plays by the likes of Harvey Fierstein, Terence McNally, Tony Kushner, and Paul Rudnick would be a great starting place. PLEASE.

johnraymondbarker.com

Updated On: 6/25/05 at 08:48 PM

#33

Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not

Posted: 6/25/05 at 8:50pm

I LOVE Harold! Add him to my list, too.

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

#34

Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not

Posted: 6/25/05 at 9:03pm

Adam and Steve from the Most Fabulous Story Ever Told

#35

Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not

Posted: 6/25/05 at 9:05pm

Gordo Schwinn~A New Brain

#36

Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not

Posted: 6/25/05 at 9:07pm

jrb: The topic WAS "favorite," not "best-written." Some of us haven't been able to really delve into more substantial works, yet (but fully intend to). I know you weren't really addressing me, but I'll be the first to admit that my list isn't the most enlightened.

Actually, this thread is sort of serving as "recommendations," for me...

#37

Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not

Posted: 6/25/05 at 9:18pm

Roger DeBris

Save him please, just save him My poor Boq, my sweet, my brave him Don't leave me till my sorry life has scene Alone and loveless here, just the girl in the mirror Just her and me, the Wicked Witch of the East

#38

Mason and Albin- A Tie! ;-)

Posted: 6/25/05 at 9:24pm

I would say Rod but he is a Republican so....
Albin- Musical
Mason- Take Me Out Denis O'Hare was adorable!

Updated On: 6/25/05 at 09:24 PM

#39

Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not

Posted: 6/25/05 at 9:36pm

I have to second... or third or fourth or whatever... Mason in Take Me Out. Adorable.

#40

Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not

Posted: 6/25/05 at 9:40pm

Nobody has mentioned Ken Talley.

#41

Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not

Posted: 6/25/05 at 11:20pm

Paul - Chorus Line by far.

#42

Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not

Posted: 6/25/05 at 11:24pm

oh man... i gotta say angel from rent, but collins from rent, rod from ave q, and zanna and tank from zanna, don't! (off-broadway... does that count?) are extremely close seconds.

forget regret...

#43

Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not

Posted: 6/25/05 at 11:34pm

I love Prior Walter from Angels in America. I could start quoting, but I shall spare you all.

Mujhse Dosti Karoge?

#44

Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not

Posted: 6/25/05 at 11:35pm

Paul, A Chorus Line.

awkward.

"I think it was the Korean tour or something. They were all frickin' asian!" -Zoran912

#45

Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not

Posted: 6/25/05 at 11:42pm

Yeah, I was going to see how long the thread went before Peter Allen in BFO was mentioned...

And if she'll say, "My darling, I'm yours!" I'll throw away my striped tie and my best pressed tweed, all I really need is the girl...

#46

Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not

Posted: 6/26/05 at 12:09am

Angel and Collins(RENT), Dr.Frank-Furter(RHS!!!)....I'm pretty sure that if I saw LA CAGE, then I would say Albin!

"I've always secretly longed for an actress to get to the top of the cherry picker and projectile vomit all over the guards below."- Wonderwaiter in the "Defy Gravity?" thread. ~~~~~~~~My dream? Sutton Foster as Cassie in A Chorus Line

#47

Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not

Posted: 6/26/05 at 12:46am

i just want to say HOORAY for all these gay characters! and to the writers for creating them! and to the actors for bringing them to life! etc, etc ... many of these dramas have been role models for me and have encouraged me to BE MYSELF. bless them all

RIP glebby <3

#48

Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not

Posted: 6/26/05 at 12:54am

In order of how much i love them:

Molina (Kiss of the Spider Woman)& Prior (Angels in America)
(No explanatation necessary)

Paul(A Chorus Line)
("One day I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're fourteenyears old and you're a faggot. What are you going to do with your life?'" So amazing.)

Collins/Angel (Rent)
(Just listen to the bits and pieces of Rent that Angel and collins sing to and about each other. So dynamic and powerful. )

#49

Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not

Posted: 6/26/05 at 1:27am

Collins and Angel and Joanne/Maureen from Rent
The Emcee from Cabaret
Hedwig

1. Ted Allen: Everyone has an interesting life if you ask the right questions.
2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys

#50

Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not

Posted: 6/26/05 at 7:22am

MEF - I was going to pick Ken. FIFTH OF JULY is one of my favorite plays, and playing him was one of my fondest memories. I still think the presentation of he and Jed is the most 'real' gay couple I've encountered.

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