Musto rides Goulet....plus more

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 8/3/05 at 6:42am

Mustos' in rare form this week, kids:

"There's been some lingering ickiness hovering over the culture, and I—slow on the uptake—have just caught ill wind of it. For one thing, veteran crooner ROBERT GOULET turned up on The Tony Danza Show—you heard me; now pop some Geritol and hush—to moan about how terribly uncomfortable it was to have to kiss a man onstage in the La Cage aux Folles revival. (Maybe he prefers it offstage. Nah, kidding.) There are several ironies here. One is that La Cage brought Goulet in to replace someone with a supposed attitude problem—though even that guy puckered with gusto. (And yes, I know, he was gay.) Another twist is that the show was designed to sell the normalcy of queer love to the masses, but behind the scenes Goulet was apparently pulling his same-sex-squeamish routine. And in a whole other contortion of fate, the producers were hoping the ballsy baritone would reverse the show's box office downturn, but alas, it died faster than Goulet's tan when the tube runs out. Kiss my abs, Bob."
Musto on Goulet, Rosie, "The Wedding Crashers" and that other broadway site