"Spamalot" Clay Aiken — Page 2

It looks like not being gay is a bad thing to some gays. Why the heterophobia? You should not hate people for being straight and brave enough to say so.

Why do YOU object to a straight man saying he isn't gay? You're the one brandishing a gay accusation as if it were a weapon to hurt Clay. Why do you think its "Bad" enough that it should hurt anyone?

We should start a gaymates group. And make T-shirts.

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TheatreDiva, why don't you consider spreading lies a bad thing? Oh, that's right, because you do it yourself.
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And now for something completely different, and actually on topic:

Associated press article: https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/01/23/entertainment/e103445S35.DTL

"Aiken, 29, has taken over the role of Sir Robin, the cowardly knight that Idle once played on film and David Hyde Pierce originated when the Tony Award-winning musical debuted in 2005.
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"One of the reasons that it intrigued me was that it was so different. Nobody I think would have expected me to show up in 'Spamalot,'" he says, laughing.
"It's very irreverent. ... I mean, my character soils his pants on stage multiple times.""
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Associate director Peter Lawrence says Aiken has been no idle diva; the singer asked to be treated like any other company member and has been surprisingly fearless.
"Clay really surprised me. When you meet him, he's this sweet kid from North Carolina with an accent. And you think there's no way he can do Cambridge material. And then he does," says Lawrence.

"It's been a total delight and a surprise for me and everyone in the company to work with Clay because he can do things you'd never imagine he could do.""


Broadway.com interview: https://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=560459&pn=1

"Everybody knows that Clay Aiken can sing, but—surprise!—he can also hold his own on a Broadway stage. To be more precise, he can hula, ogle scantily clad girls, discuss flying coconuts in a British accent, pretend to poop in his tunic, do a Cossack-style line dance and perform a lightning-fast patter song ("You won't succeed on Broadway if you don't have any Jews") without dropping a syllable.
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If somebody said to me, 'Who in this cast has never done theater?' he is the last person I would have chosen," says Hannah Waddingham, the Olivier Award-nominated British musical star who joined the Tony-winning musical as the Lady of the Lake the same night Aiken debuted.
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There was a big concern for me—and I'll speak to you about this because your outlet speaks directly to [theater] people—about what they call "stunt casting." Based on some research I did, I know that a lot of diehard Broadway fans can't stand it, so there was automatic concern that people within the industry were going to be upset that I was doing this because I took [the role] away from somebody else or I didn't earn my way; I didn't audition the way everybody else does. I was concerned about that, not just in terms of Broadway fans but people in the cast who might have wanted to see somebody else get it. And I could not have been more wrong when it comes to the people who work in the industry. There's always going to be some 13-year-old sitting at his computer in Topeka who's bitter. But every person I've worked with has been unbelievably phenomenal and welcoming. "

Cast photos from the first performance: https://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=24465

Fox News interview and clips from the show: https://tinyurl.com/2lz6qz

Select [VIDEO] Clay Aiken stars in Monty Python's 'Spamalot' to watch

You can stop reading now, because from this point on, the thread will quickly deteriorate into the pointless mud slinging.

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Updated On: 2/19/08 at 06:29 PM

"Why don't you consider spreading lies a bad thing? Oh, that's right, because you do it yourself. "

Show me where I have lied.


I'll wait.

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She said you were SPREADING LIES, Diva. Which you did.

Fromage, being gay isn't a joke.

"She said you were SPREADING LIES, Diva. Which you did."

Again, which lies are you speaking of?

I'll wait until you answer that and why you posted that being gay was bad.

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Updated On: 5/7/09 at 06:43 PM

I never said that. I said that you use gay accusations as a weapon. As if it were something bad.

The tabloids printed lies about Clay. You spread them around. All I had to do was look at your profile and your nasty words were there. Try wiggling out of it but you can't.

Cartwheel,

Just because you don't like the information I posted, doesn't make it a lie.

And Mego, you said it:

"re: 'Spamalot' Clay Aiken
Posted On: 2/17/08 at 02:47 PM


Those comments aren't meant to be harmless jokes. Yelli is right about the Gaymates. They are out to hurt him by repeating all the tabloid lies and TRYING TO MAKE PEOPLE THINK HE'S A BAD PERSON."

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And the information I posted was from someone I know.

It wasn't from a tabloid.

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Updated On: 5/7/09 at 07:01 PM