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[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 11/11/25 at 12:14am

The film is now out digitally. 

[BJR]

Posted: 11/11/25 at 10:43am

joevitus said: "I mean I love listening to it, but in terms of appropriateness for their song spots,"Dressing Them Up" is too much of a light, traditional "charm song" for someone in Molina's position, as "I Draw the Line" is similarly musical comedy thinking out of place in that locale with those characters. Real straight men obviously dream abouthot women, but they don't useterms like "big bosomed women." They use a different vernacular.The lyrics of "My First Woman," holdthe odd contradiction of Valentin continuallysaying he remembers her, but then adds "What did she look like? Probably plain." What? He doesn't remember the thing he's supposed to remember so well (this doesn't feel like a Sondheim moment where a character slips up, revealing more about their pysche than they themselves realize). "The Day After That" sounds like a mash-up of "The Bells of St. Sebastian's" from Nine and "One Day More" from Les Mis. None of this makes for bad listening on a cast album. But all of it reads--to me--pretty false for the characters and the situation. I fully acknowledge this is just my own personal opinion."

I ADORE this show, and yet, I absolutely agree. With all of these points. 

To do it on stage now, I think one would find sensibilities changed enough these would be tricky to not be cringe. But on film, it absolutely never possible.

In fact, I've heard many comment that they felt Tonatiuh improves as the film goes on, that he plays it too light and stereotypical at the beginning. Well, I can only imagine if he had sung Dressing Them Up! (Also, Molina's stubborn shallowness/vapidity is part of Puig's story, as it's self-protection.)

[joevitus]

Posted: 11/11/25 at 1:13pm

BJR said: "(Also, Molina's stubborn shallowness/vapidity is part of Puig's story, as it's self-protection.)"

I read an interesting interivew with Puig where he talked about not liking the 1985 movie because Molina was made into such a depressing character. He said, "In the book, the character of Molina is full of joy and life...Hurt created a neurtoic and tortured character who had nothing to do with Molina, who was a very joyful person, among other things, and who did not feel the Calvanistic guilt that was attributed to him in the picture." 

I agree with you that it's a form of self-protection, but I thought Puig's comments were really interesting. 

Updated On: 11/11/25 at 01:13 PM

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 11/11/25 at 8:20pm

I swear Tonatiuh's been continuing this a one-person publicity tour for months. They're the main reason I found out the show is now available on SVOD, as well as the international release schedule.