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Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#1Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 9/11/11 at 12:13pm
Can't fool me with those chunky legs and male torsos.
But the audience seemed clueless, which made me laugh out loud.
How you pulled it off in those gorgeous costumes!
Well done, marvelous missies!
SondheimFan5
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/10
#2Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 9/11/11 at 12:16pmwhat else would you expect in a musical on Broadway????
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#2Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 9/11/11 at 12:24pm
Yep, Follies has it all.
Even Bernadette.
Gasp.
#3Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 9/11/11 at 3:30pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMK6lzmSk2o
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#4Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 9/11/11 at 4:11pmReally?! I was up in the mezz and couldn't see from there.
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#5Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 9/11/11 at 4:53pm
[SPOILER]
Hahaha.
I was up in the mezz, too.
When they do the little promenade of the "girls" coming forward to show their incredible costumes off, the last two are not.
Updated On: 9/11/11 at 04:53 PM
#6Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 9/11/11 at 5:10pmSounds like steam escaping
Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.
SondheimFan5
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/10
#7Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 9/11/11 at 7:40pmReally??? or are you pulling my leg? (or just being judgemental)
#9Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 9/11/11 at 9:01pm^ All that needs to be said is "consider the source".
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#10Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 9/11/11 at 9:24pm
SondheimFan5, you didn't notice?
Given the size of some of the headpieces, it would make sense to have them on the stronger males.
Have the boys here all lost their gaydar again?
#11Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 9/11/11 at 9:26pmI highly doubt two of those showgirls are males.
#12Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 9/11/11 at 9:29pmIn nomdeplume's mind they are.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#13Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 9/11/11 at 9:29pmGiven that they are all lurking around upstairs in the shadows most of the time, I would not be.
#14Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 9/11/11 at 9:31pmK
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#15Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 9/11/11 at 9:33pm
I think I pay more attention to male torsos than you do-ha!
I'm rather fond of the shape of the male torso, particularly a lithe, youthful one.
#16Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 9/11/11 at 9:34pmThat's nice.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
AndersonTours
Stand-by Joined: 12/19/10
#17Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 9/11/11 at 9:55pm
This thread is just silly.
Let's talk about the theater. Not silly gay stuff.
I'm gay and this thread is just stupid.
chewy5000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
#18Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 9/11/11 at 10:38pm
Let's talk about the theater. Not silly gay stuff.
The difference being...?
egghumor
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/9/11
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#20Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 9/11/11 at 11:26pm
It gives a little nuance of meaning to this cryptic statement about Follies by its designer to the Wall Street Journal:
"It's like sacred ground," said the current show's costume designer, Gregg Barnes, as he walked around backstage on Thursday. "And some of the choices that we landed on fly in the face of the original."
Follies Costume Drama
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#21Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 9/12/11 at 12:03am
Gregg looks like he's having a ball.
Too bad you have to subscribe to read the article...
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nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#22Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 9/12/11 at 12:12am
You don't have to, TheatreDiva90016.
Just google "Follies costumes," find the article and click through.
Clear your cookies first. You'll get a free read, and notice there is a tab to click to see about eight photos, though none of the lovely androgynes in question, nor their costumes.
I didn't realize this was some big secret. Not to me it wasn't anyway.
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#23Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 9/12/11 at 12:30am
And the first giveaway was I was looking at an Asian male torso, a Southeast Asian male torso, to be specific. I've seen so much Southeast Asian art and so many Asian people it was a dead giveaway to me.
The Asian, especially Indian and Southeast Asian, male torso (look at all the Buddha statues and art and Hindu dieties and dancer art) is smooth on the surface and wears its musculature and strength below the surface, unlike the more muscle-bulging Caucasian forms as in Greek and Roman art. I've seen enough representations of Buddhas to know that form anywhere--haha. And the Southeast Asian men are often more diminutive in size and more elegant and graceful in form than the bigger burlier Caucasians. Often, but not always, of course.
The first male I would say was probably Mathew deGuzman, whom I'd imagine is Filipino. The second male, I am guessing more, it is perhaps Amos Wolf, less sure on that one. The second is considerably taller than the first, and appeared Caucasian.
I really was wishing they wouldn't hide the gorgeous costumes in the shadows so much. I'd still like to see them more.
Updated On: 9/12/11 at 12:30 AM
#24Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 9/12/11 at 12:34amdeGuzman is a swing. Unless he was covering a role, he was not on the stage.
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