Favorite "Gay" role in a Broadway show...- Page 2
Favorite "Gay" role in a Broadway show...
nelliecollins
Understudy Joined: 6/24/05
#25re: 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.
LuvBroadwayHugs
Broadway Star Joined: 6/20/05
#26re: Favorite
Posted: 6/25/05 at 8:17pmRoger Debris from The Producers and Herbert from Spamalot!
broadwayboy1939
Stand-by Joined: 5/23/05
#27re: Favorite
Posted: 6/25/05 at 8:20pmI would say, Angel from RENT, Rod from AVENUE Q, and Peter Allen from THE BOY FROM OZ (played by the wonderful Hugh)!!!
LuvBroadwayHugs
Broadway Star Joined: 6/20/05
#28re: Favorite
Posted: 6/25/05 at 8:25pmOf course! Peter Allen! How could I forget!
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#29Harold--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).
#30Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not
Posted: 6/25/05 at 8:39pmPeter from Bare is my all time favorite after that though, i'd have to say Mark from altar boyz
#31Harold--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.
Updated On: 6/25/05 at 08:48 PM
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#32Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not
Posted: 6/25/05 at 8:50pmI LOVE Harold! Add him to my list, too.
BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
#33Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not
Posted: 6/25/05 at 9:03pmAdam and Steve from the Most Fabulous Story Ever Told
#34Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not
Posted: 6/25/05 at 9:05pmGordo Schwinn~A New Brain
Elizabeth_DeBris
Broadway Star Joined: 1/29/05
#35Harold--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...
elphie30
Understudy Joined: 2/5/05
#36Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not
Posted: 6/25/05 at 9:18pmRoger DeBris
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#37Mason 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
#38Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not
Posted: 6/25/05 at 9:36pmI have to second... or third or fourth or whatever... Mason in Take Me Out. Adorable.
#39Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not
Posted: 6/25/05 at 9:40pmNobody has mentioned Ken Talley.
dietcherryemma
Featured Actor Joined: 6/3/05
#40Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not
Posted: 6/25/05 at 11:20pmPaul - Chorus Line by far.
AngelofAvenueB
Understudy Joined: 3/1/05
#41Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not
Posted: 6/25/05 at 11:24pmoh 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.
#42Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not
Posted: 6/25/05 at 11:34pmI love Prior Walter from Angels in America. I could start quoting, but I shall spare you all.
#44Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not
Posted: 6/25/05 at 11:35pmPaul, A Chorus Line.
"I think it was the Korean tour or something. They were all frickin' asian!" -Zoran912
AnothaPartofMe
Broadway Star Joined: 5/22/04
#46Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not
Posted: 6/25/05 at 11:42pmYeah, I was going to see how long the thread went before Peter Allen in BFO was mentioned...
FosseBoi
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/30/04
#48Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not
Posted: 6/26/05 at 12:09amAngel and Collins(RENT), Dr.Frank-Furter(RHS!!!)....I'm pretty sure that if I saw LA CAGE, then I would say Albin!
#49Harold--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
Cages or Wings
Featured Actor Joined: 11/27/04
#50Harold--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. )
#51Harold--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
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
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#53Harold--still an icon whether we like it or not
Posted: 6/26/05 at 7:22amMEF - 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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