Lloyd Young in "Oy Vey My Son Is Gay"
Lloyd Young in "Oy Vey My Son Is Gay"
DrTheatre
Broadway Star Joined: 9/23/05
#1Lloyd Young in "Oy Vey My Son Is Gay"
Posted: 11/20/08 at 1:45pm
This plot sounds a bit like Mambo Italiano...but we will see...
20 Nov 2008
Playbill.com has learned that Tony Award winner John Lloyd Young, seen this past summer in the Hollywood Bowl's all-star Les Misérables in Concert, has landed a leading role in his first feature film.
Lloyd Young will play the title character in the new comedy "Oy Vey My Son Is Gay." The screenplay — penned by Evgeny Afineevsky, Joseph Goldman and Martin Guigui — won several screenwriting awards at film festivals this year, and the work is now being made into a feature film.
The Tony-winning star of Jersey Boys will be joined on screen by Saul Rubinek and Lainie Kazan, who will play his parents, as well as Carmen Electra and Vincent Pastore. Producers are currently in talks for the male actor who will star opposite Lloyd Young.
The film is described as "a heartfelt comedy about a close-knit family's reaction to their beloved son coming out of the closet." Producers are Evgeny Afineevsky, Svetlana Anufrieva, Rich Cowan and Alexei Diveyeff-Tserkovny.
Production for "Oy Vey My Son Is Gay" is scheduled to begin next week in Washington.
John Lloyd Young received a Tony Award for his work as Frank Valli in the Tony-winning musical Jersey Boys. For that performance he also won Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk and Theatre World awards. His other theatrical credits include The Drawer Boy as well as productions at the McCarter Theatre and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
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#2re: Lloyd Young in 'Oy Vey My Son Is Gay'
Posted: 11/20/08 at 1:49pmCarmen Electra's presence is always a sign of danger.
DrTheatre
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#2re: Lloyd Young in 'Oy Vey My Son Is Gay'
Posted: 11/20/08 at 1:52pmLOL...I know
"In the U.S.A.
You can have your say,
You can set you goals
And seize the day,
You've been given the freedom
To work your way
To the head of the line-
To the head of the line!"
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#3re: Lloyd Young in 'Oy Vey My Son Is Gay'
Posted: 11/20/08 at 1:56pmI don't know why, but just reading the title made me think Kazan would be in it...and she is!
"Broadway...I'll lick you yet!"
#4re: Lloyd Young in 'Oy Vey My Son Is Gay'
Posted: 11/20/08 at 2:06pm
Producers are Evgeny Afineevsky, Svetlana Anufrieva, Rich Cowan and Alexei Diveyeff-Tserkovny
I can't even pronounce them.
#5re: Lloyd Young in 'Oy Vey My Son Is Gay'
Posted: 11/20/08 at 2:10pmIsn't his last name actually just "Young"? It's not like Andrew Lloyd Webber whose actual surname is two names. Right?
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Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#6re: Lloyd Young in 'Oy Vey My Son Is Gay'
Posted: 11/20/08 at 2:17pmI had hoped that his success in Jersey Boys might have led to more Broadway musicals. I'm sure he's getting a tidy sum for doing this and I wish him all the best, but still . . . .
BroadwayEd
#7re: Lloyd Young in 'Oy Vey My Son Is Gay'
Posted: 11/20/08 at 3:33pm
Lizzie, I believe you're right.
Sounds like a predictable B-movie to me. Also sounds like something I'd totally watch. :)
~Steven
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#8re: Lloyd Young in 'Oy Vey My Son Is Gay'
Posted: 11/20/08 at 3:52pmThat may be the worst title I've ever heard of anything.
#9re: Lloyd Young in 'Oy Vey My Son Is Gay'
Posted: 11/20/08 at 4:26pmI totally remember hearing about this from a woman who is like a grandmother to me. She's in her 90's (and still working!) had a driver who has/had something to do with this film. I forget what exactly but I'll ask if she remembers his name. Too funny to hear about it again. I don't think I could ever forget that title!
#10re: Lloyd Young in 'Oy Vey My Son Is Gay'
Posted: 11/20/08 at 7:01pmSounds like a straight-to-DVD gay film like ADAM & STEVE (with another Broadway actor, Malcolm Gets).
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#11re: Lloyd Young in 'Oy Vey My Son Is Gay'
Posted: 11/20/08 at 7:04pmI adore Adam & Steve.
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#13re: Lloyd Young in 'Oy Vey My Son Is Gay'
Posted: 11/20/08 at 7:16pm
This is what I thought of the second I read this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeahDax24Dg
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#14re: Lloyd Young in 'Oy Vey My Son Is Gay'
Posted: 11/20/08 at 7:17pmI guess it beats "Mamma Mia, My Son is Qwee-ia".
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#15re: Lloyd Young in 'Oy Vey My Son Is Gay'
Posted: 11/20/08 at 8:30pmI love what AfterElton.com said about it: http://www.afterelton.com/blog/snicks/tony-winner-john-lloyd-young-to-star-in-the-most-fabulously-titled-gay-film-ever?&comment=59470
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#16re: Lloyd Young in 'Oy Vey My Son Is Gay'
Posted: 11/20/08 at 11:17pm
Lainie Kazan has made a career out of playing ethnic stereotype after ethnic stereotype.
Zzz...
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Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#17re: Lloyd Young in 'Oy Vey My Son Is Gay'
Posted: 11/20/08 at 11:43pm
Congrats to JLY. Nice guys don't finish last. 
#18re: Lloyd Young in 'Oy Vey My Son Is Gay'
Posted: 11/21/08 at 12:27amThey don't finish last but they DO go direct to DVD.
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marsh1901
Swing Joined: 11/21/08
#19re: Lainie Kazan in 'Oy Vey My Son Is Gay'
Posted: 11/21/08 at 5:21pmKazan's resume, she's been in about 25 films, Broadway, stints on endless TV series. SHe also has a decades long successful singing career and still sells out her performances. She's the only one paying the bills around her house and there was a time when she couldn't work because of health, went broke and lost everything including the husband. "Love is all there Is' is one of my fav of her flilms. Give her a break..she's almost 70 years old and looks pretty darn good! Stupid title, no academy awards for this one but there will be a paycheck at the end of the day.
#20re: Lainie Kazan in 'Oy Vey My Son Is Gay'
Posted: 11/21/08 at 6:18pmJohn Lloyd Young and Lainie Kazan? Yeah, I'll see it. If it has the two of them and is at least as good as Mambo Italiano, I'll have a good time. It already sounds better than the majority of the gay independent films out there. If we're so damned artistic, why can't we make any decent movies? I've been recently watching a lot of gay independent films lately, hoping in vain to find a diamond in the rough. It's like visual constipation...painfully waiting for something substantial to come out. Ugh!
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#21re: Lainie Kazan in 'Oy Vey My Son Is Gay'
Posted: 11/21/08 at 6:28pmJohn will do a fantastic job.
"It does what a musical is supposed to do; it takes you to another world. And it gives you a little tune to carry in your head. Something to take you away from the dreary horrors of the real world. A little something for when you're feeling blue. You know?"
#22re: Lainie Kazan in 'Oy Vey My Son Is Gay'
Posted: 12/6/08 at 12:59pmThe mindf*ck of watching JLY make out with Jai Rodriguez might just be worth the ticket price.
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CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#24re: Lainie Kazan in 'Oy Vey My Son Is Gay'
Posted: 12/6/08 at 3:09pmMister Matt, I agree. That's why I watch mostly foreign gay movies. Much better than most of ours. Although I have run across a few clunkers!
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