"La Cage Aux Folles" Broadway Revival 2004

Has anyone heard who will be playing the leading roles in the planned Broadway revial of "La Cage Aux Folles" scheduled for an October 2004 opening?

Yeah. Thanks anyway.

Namo I love your Icon. That jerk never looked better.

I have no idea what you are talking about. I was making a reference to you coltness. Is there something you're trying to tell the group about your identity?

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I have it from good sources that the producers of the LA CAGE revival are hoping to get Gary Beach and Denis O'Hare for the two leads.

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Ditto.

But if ever a Broadway musical cried out for a heavily re-written book, this is it.

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As fond as I am of WILL AND GRACE and QUEER EYE, I think we can apply Bulldog's sentiments to television as well. Every show seems to have at least one gay character. At first this was refreshing, but we're suffering from overkill at the present time!

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"How many times does it need to be said before it ceases to be a novelty? Does it really have to be rammed down everyone's throat?"

Why is it that that sort of imagery is always used by people who are "not anti-gay?" Rammed down everyone's throat.

I was listening to yell radio on my AM dial the other day and as you can imagine, there's a bit of a hubbub over the gay marriage flap. And I listened to this guy, who proudly declared that he is "not anti-gay" go on and on about "I'll be comfortable if we give them civil unions," as if anybody asked that "we" to "give" people rights that the court has already said they deserve. But he went on and on about how marriage is a round hole and gay couples are a sqare peg and this Massachusetts ruling is trying to ram the square peg into the round hole with the expectation that the hole would become square, which would therefore change the definition of marriage. It was specious argument, with such telling imagery that I think says more about the person who chooses it than argues their point.

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Updated On: 2/8/04 at 08:54 PM

now admit it, namo, you just listen to those screamers for the detailed explanation of things being rammed into holes. what a poorly chosen and hilariously freudian metaphor.

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And, of course, Bulldog's was just as Freudian! The other one that gets repeated frequently plays less into the forced sodomy fears/fantasies (because really, what is a fear other than a fantasy a person is afraid to admit he or she has?) and that is: "I'm not anti-gay, but I don't know why they always have to shove it in our faces." Okay, I guess it IS another forced sodomy fantasy.

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The choice of words was deliberate, not a slip--Freudian or otherwise.

plus ca change...

Bulldog

Updated On: 2/9/04 at 07:13 AM

Bulldog wrote: "...not a slip--Freudian or otherwise."

I never said it was a slip. But it definitely was Freudian whether you care to admit it or not. I'll be waiting for you to bring up this notion in yet another thread (because, let's face it, you've done it before) with imagery like, "I don't understand why they have to ram their GAY GAY GAYness in and out and in and out and in and out all the time."

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