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Lesbians on Broadway
ahhrealmonsters
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/11/10
#25Lesbians on Broadway
Posted: 4/24/16 at 5:15am
Check out LezCab, a non profit theatre company devoted to creating an accurate and meaningful representation of queer women. Board members include Lisa Kron, Beth Malone, Jenn Colella, Stephanie Klemons (Hamilton associate choreographer), Jenifer Foote (currently in She Loves Me), Haviland Stillwell, and Carmel Dean.
www.lezcab.com
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#26Lesbians on Broadway
Posted: 4/24/16 at 5:17am
Rosie O'Donnell who is going into The King and I in June.
ahhrealmonsters
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/11/10
#27Lesbians on Broadway
Posted: 5/11/16 at 11:15am
Lesbians (and queer women) on Broadway (and off) singing 90s pop songs - Saturday, May 28th at Le Poisson Rouge:
https://www.broadwayworld.com/cabaret/article/LezCab-to-Sing-the-90s-at-Le-Poisson-Rouge-528-20160511
https://www.facebook.com/events/763179160480218/
smidge
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/06
#28Lesbians on Broadway
Posted: 5/11/16 at 12:34pm
SmoothLover said: "Rosie O'Donnell who is going into The King and I in June.
As the ship? (I'm sorry, I'm sorry)
#29Lesbians on Broadway
Posted: 5/11/16 at 12:56pm
QueenAlice said: "Martin was also supposedly romantically linked early in her career to Jean Arthur (who was a Broadway actress). There was a book called "The Princess and the Goblin" which was kind of like a Valley-of-the-Dolls semi-fictional trash expose novel written about their relationship.
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Wow, I wanna read that. Jean Arthur was in the early 1950s hit Broadway revival of Peter Pan with songs by Bernstein. Did they compare Peter notes? Did Arthur throw a fit when Martin re did Oan as a full out musical and became famous in the role?
#30Lesbians on Broadway
Posted: 5/11/16 at 1:51pm
"Rosie O'Donnell who is going into The King and I in June."
And brings the whole thing to a halt. I can't imagine in what role. She sings, dances, and acts now?
<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES
Ranger Tom
Leading Actor Joined: 7/6/14
#31Lesbians on Broadway
Posted: 5/11/16 at 2:48pm
Back Row said: "I saw the title of the thread and thought it might be the title of a new show...."
My first thought too. My second thought was "who cares?"
#32Lesbians on Broadway
Posted: 5/11/16 at 2:52pm
No discussion of lesbians on Broadway is complete without mentioning the lighting designer extraordinaire THARON MUSSER. In the same sentence should be mentioned her longtime partner and also a great lighting designer, MARILYN RENNAGEL.
#33Lesbians on Broadway
Posted: 5/11/16 at 3:00pm
SmoothLover said: "Rosie O'Donnell who is going into The King and I in June.
That is good to know..........when is she coming out.
#34Lesbians on Broadway
Posted: 5/11/16 at 3:15pm
No discussion of lesbians on Broadway is complete without mentioning the lighting designer extraordinaire THARON MUSSER. In the same sentence should be mentioned her longtime partner and also a great lighting designer, MARILYN RENNAGEL.
Indeed the entire field of lighting design owes a debt of gratitude and respect to a whole generation of lesbians in light lighting design, who still lived in a world where gay relationships were closeted, even among theater people. That's just how it was.
#35Lesbians on Broadway
Posted: 5/11/16 at 4:16pm
The first time I met Tharon was in prep for the original production of BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS around 1982. Marilyn welcomed me in to their townhouse in the Village with my roll of draftings. And Tharon treated me, a callow 26-year-old assistant, as a true coworker and professional. Unbelievably generous lady, despite her tough exterior.
#36Lesbians on Broadway
Posted: 5/11/16 at 4:21pm
There is an academic book that has some background information on the theater professionals of this closeted and semi-closeted era. It's not the best book you've ever read, but there are no others:
http://www.amazon.com/Staging-Desire-Readings-Triangulations-Performance/dp/0472067494
#37Lesbians on Broadway
Posted: 5/11/16 at 6:35pm
This isn't a bad book either, http://www.amazon.com/Out-Stage-Lesbian-Theater-Twentieth/dp/0300081022
Out on Stage: lesbian and Gay Theatre in the 20th Century
#38Lesbians on Broadway
Posted: 5/11/16 at 6:38pm
Though it's more about gay and lesbians in plays/musicals.
Two other books I've used for research in various papers that are more about the people...
Cast Out: Queer Lives in Theater
http://www.amazon.com/Cast-Out-Theater-Triangulations-Performance/dp/0472069330/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1463006150&sr=1-4&keywords=gay+theater
The Gay and Lesbian Theatrical Legacy: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Figures in American Stage History in the Pre-Stonewall Era
http://www.amazon.com/Lesbian-Theatrical-Legacy-Pre-Stonewall-Triangulations/dp/047206858X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1463006150&sr=1-2&keywords=gay+theater
None are perfect, but there is some good info there.
#39Lesbians on Broadway
Posted: 5/11/16 at 6:39pm
Cast Out has a particularly moving essay from Cherry Jones--has she been mentioned yet?
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#40Lesbians on Broadway
Posted: 5/11/16 at 8:15pm
What lesbian themed shows have played Broadway?
There's FUN HOME and THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE and....um...
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#41Lesbians on Broadway
Posted: 5/11/16 at 8:26pm
Some off-Broadway shows come to mind (Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, now considered a classic, was a hit in 1980, Paula Vogel's stuff, etc), but if we are talking Broadway the immediate one you left off that I think of (from the 1930s, no less) is The Children's Hour.
Updated On: 5/11/16 at 08:26 PM
#42Lesbians on Broadway
Posted: 5/11/16 at 9:24pm
cglaid said: "I think Waitress ensemble Molly Hager and Beautiful's Jessica Keenan Wynn are a couple."
https://www.instagram.com/p/BFSNfrQohxI/?taken-by=jkwynn
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#43Lesbians on Broadway
Posted: 5/11/16 at 11:50pm
More shows with at least a Lesbian subplot:
THE WILD PARTY (on Broadway, at least)
And of course, THE COLOR PURPLE.
#44Lesbians on Broadway
Posted: 5/12/16 at 1:06am
I think this is a nice appreciation post to so may talented women on Broadway! If I could take a minute and tell my Holland Taylor story. First, I'm so happy for she and Sarah, they make a terrific couple.
So, when I was a kid mid teens..my grandmother would babysit us with my younger brother. She would always have to watch "The Edge Of Night" that was a soap opera like a mystery. I got hooked on it b/c, well I knew I was gay and they had some hunky guys on it that just made me "swoon". Holland Taylor was in it and played a villain, Denise Cavanaugh, a nasty, evil...you know, poisoning, and blackmail, and gaslighting. I wrote her my first fan letter and told her how great she was and I loved her and thought she was so evil it was wonderful. Well, maybe 3 months later, the phone rang. It was her! She told me it was the nicest fan letter she had ever received and thanked me and said she was showing it to everyone. I was on cloud nine for a month. Anyway, if I knew then, I would have told her I was gay too. I have loved her ever since and seen almost everything she's done on stage. Sarah, you are with a real Gem!
PS. Eric I have to look up all those books thx
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Updated On: 5/12/16 at 01:06 AM
StephieElise
Featured Actor Joined: 11/12/12
#45Lesbians on Broadway
Posted: 5/12/16 at 1:23am
Someone in a Tree2 said: "More shows with at least a Lesbian subplot:
THE WILD PARTY (on Broadway, at least)
And of course, THE COLOR PURPLE."
Plus RENT and IF/THEN
#46Lesbians on Broadway
Posted: 5/12/16 at 2:50am
Steve--that is an amazing story. As a soap geek I know quite a bit about Edge of Night, though it was canceled when I was three (my mom watched it while home from work with us as kids)--and yeah it focused on crime and mystery which is one reason why even in the late 50s it had a surprisingly large male viewership--also because back then it aired "at the edge of night" in the last afternoon timeslot when some workers would come home. Kim Stanley was also in a long story arc in the 70s and of course "Dennis Parker/Wade Nichols" the big 1970s gay and straight porn star (who had a camptastic disco hit with Like an Eagle) was one of the leading men on Edge of Night for about 7 years.
But I digress. Do check out the books--conveniently my university library had them all which is how I came across them.
#47Lesbians on Broadway
Posted: 5/15/16 at 7:08am
Monday 5/16/16 at 7:30 EST - Livestream
LC Dialogues: Artist to Artist with Cynthia Nixon
Sarah Steele (The Good Wife, Broadway’s The Humans) sits down with the Tony- and Emmy-winning actress for an illuminating conversation on craft, creativity, and career.
http://www.lincolncenter.org/video/5729278b3fb18ddc7e6b3ebb
KathyNYC2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/2/10
#48Lesbians on Broadway
Posted: 5/15/16 at 11:09am
Steve C. said: "I think this is a nice appreciation post to so may talented women on Broadway! If I could take a minute and tell my Holland Taylor story. First, I'm so happy for she and Sarah, they make a terrific couple.
So, when I was a kid mid teens..my grandmother would babysit us with my younger brother. She would always have to watch "The Edge Of Night" that was a soap opera like a mystery. I got hooked on it b/c, well I knew I was gay and they had some hunky guys on it that just made me "swoon". Holland Taylor was in it and played a villain, Denise Cavanaugh, a nasty, evil...you know, poisoning, and blackmail, and gaslighting. I wrote her my first fan letter and told her how great she was and I loved her and thought she was so evil it was wonderful. Well, maybe 3 months later, the phone rang. It was her! She told me it was the nicest fan letter she had ever received and thanked me and said she was showing it to everyone. I was on cloud nine for a month. Anyway, if I knew then, I would have told her I was gay too. I have loved her ever since and seen almost everything she's done on stage. Sarah, you are with a real Gem!
PS. Eric I have to look up all those books thx
"
Great Holland Taylor story...she called you? How amazing. I also remember The Edge of Night with special fondness because it taped in a studio on 44th Street off 2nd Avenue which was a block away from where I lived..so I would frequently see the actors in our local drug stores, butcher shops, grocery stores..and just on the street. I remember Taylor on the show but I didn't remember her character- thanks for the memories.
But another not so happy memory was that Edge of Night was really hit by the AIDS epidemic when it was at its height.... and they lost quite a few of their male actors in a relatively short time due to this dreaded disease (but I don't think the general public knew that right away- it was more hush hush then). I wonder if anyone else remembers any more about that.
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