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Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
#51Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 1/9/12 at 1:56pmLibel, ljay! Libel!
"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
#52Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 1/9/12 at 2:23pm
She's not an idiot. Why she could almost write a BOOK about "Southeast Asian art" and the "Southeast Asian male torso":
NOMDEPLUME: 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'd imagine is Filipino. The second male...is considerably taller than the first, and appeared Caucasian.
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#53Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 1/11/12 at 1:17pm
It shouldn't matter at all, Gaveston. Who should care even if this were true (which I very much doubt it is). In fact some of the drag chorines in the original production of La Cage were played by women.
#54Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 1/11/12 at 1:26pm
It's funny that you mentioned Karen Olivo calling out and replacing with a man every time you go to see her...
The same thing happened to me when I went to see Kathleen Turner. I think.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#55Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 1/14/12 at 11:11pm
I can't believe I'm eating crow but I owe nom de plume an apology. I finally saw Follies last night and my seats were very close. I can assure you that nom has understated the amount of top notch female impersonation in this production. I am something of an aficionado of the penile form, and recognize it even when tucked.
It turns out most of the chorus girl ghosts carefully hide in the shadows. It's like they were directed that way to hide themselves. But not only that, there's a supporting actor named Terry White who plays Stella. He's even better than Ken Page was in the Torch Song Trilogy movie. And finally, how could everybody have missed Mr. Jan Maxwell's incredible job as Phyllis? That man deserves a Tony. I don't think anybody in the audience even realized he was a man. It made me feel like a real insider and kinda special to be in on the theatrical magic.
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#56Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 1/14/12 at 11:19pm
I have it on good authority that "Bernadette" Peters is actually Bernard Peters.
"Bernadette" is only Bernie's, y'know, nom de plume.
#57Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 1/15/12 at 8:42amThis gives entirely new meaning to that Lucy/Jesse number. I can't believe I never made the connection before. Now I know why they use that instead of "Ah But Underneath" now. It would be way too obvious!
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.
#58Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 1/15/12 at 8:46am
"But no one dare to query her
Superior exterior..."
#59Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 1/15/12 at 11:01amSo that mean's "Buddy's Blues" is actually about how Buddy longs to be a woman!
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#60Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 1/15/12 at 11:01amSo that mean's "Buddy's Blues" is actually about how Buddy longs to be a woman!
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#61Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 1/15/12 at 12:17pmExactly! That's why you'd cast one of the butchest sissy hetero Broadway troupers like a Danny Burnstein.
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ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#62Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 1/15/12 at 12:32pmNo, no, Namo, you've been fooled again! Didn't you know that he boys don't get to have all the fun? "Danny" (nee Danielle) Burstein is from upstate New York, home of the finest drag kings. She's a woman playing a man who wants to be a woman - like Victor/Victoria, except not really.
AEA AGMA SM
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#63Oh, the Girly Boys of Follies!
Posted: 1/15/12 at 6:23pm
"So that mean's "Buddy's Blues" is actually about how Buddy longs to be a woman!"
I always assumed it was about a part of Buddy's anatomy turning blue, since there don't seem to be any real women in these Follies for him.
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