bronx sees Good Vibrations + too many gays + Judi Dench conducting

GOOD VIBRATIONS is a juke box musical and there's nothing wrong with that. I had a lot of fun. The music is very very good and reminds me of summer which is a good feeling during this dark winter. The understudy for Eddie I didn't like and hey was so gay as usual which is very boring these days and was not believeable at all as a surfer dude. I like this show because these kids came extremely close to being able to sing this msuic in it's actual rock style which is something the MAMMA MIA! people could work on. Lots of attractive bodies and nice scenic design. Funny too. I have been in some weird moods lately and this show may have cured me. I couldn't help but smile toward the end. I recomend this show.

Updated On: 2/10/05 at 05:02 PM

The character of Eddie is not gay. His character has a girlfriend, Marcella, who is played by Jessica-Snow Wilson.

I loved the critic quote that called this show " The singing headache." I saw this show early in previews and was acosted by the shills on this board when I mentioned that it was awful. I guess the critics agreed with me for a change.

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Too bad you didn't get to see Tituss Burgess as Eddie. He's amazing. Very much in the vein of Wayne Brady.

Amen to the rampant inability to disguise an actor's homosexuality for a heterosexual character.

I mean, come on, folks. I understand that the character is meant to be straight, but when the guy up there is practically talking like a valley girl and checking his nails every five seconds, it's not very convincing.

I agree with Bronx about the outward gayness of some actors onstage. Some people should just never play certain parts. I encounter it all the time, and it completely irritates me.

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Is this what is known as a backlash?

"Gayness on Broadway has just gotten out of control. Too many gay poeple in general!"

I agree wholeheartedly. We need to do away with homosexuality on Broadway entirely!!!

Bronx-you are ridiculous! You are a closed-minded biggot and should not be allowed in another Broadway theatre...for two reasons A)You enjoyed Good Vibrations and B)You clearly don't realize that without gay people, your lovely musicals (more than likely) would no longer exist.

It is one thing to be upset because an actor is effeminate (which, as we all know, there are plenty of effeminate straight men), but to claim there are too many gay people on Broadway is offensive. How about you give the producers of any Broadway show you are going to attend, a nice phone call and maybe they will assure you that the actors in their show aren't gay. (Best wishes).

I agree that there have been many people who have been miscast in their roles over the years. dozens even. But you don't see someone saying "that person is too Asian, Black, Hispanic or Jewish to play the role." Alfred Molina is ITALIAN and quite succesfully (critically anyway) played the most well-known Jewish role ever written in a musical. Open your mind.

i loved the show too....but u have to be more tolerant guy...would u like to be discriminated ??? im sure u wouldnt.

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I agree, too many gays - so if Bronx and Munk would volunteer to step away for awhile, we might make some serious strides in correcting this problem.

I would also like to chime in that it isn't GAYNESS or GAYISM. It's bad acting, and the term you should be using is FEMININE.

For all you know, some of the actors that appear to have gayness are actually straight.

And, if you really were being serious and anti-gay, bronx, you are just gonna have to get over it honey:

We here. We're queer. We invented and perfected this muthaf@#$in' artform.

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DGrant, what mention me? What did I do this time?

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New here, but here is my two cents on the whole situation:

Who's fault is it that none of the boys up on stage have the ability to act like men? I took my friend to see Hairspray, and Mamma Mia recently and she walked out and said she loved both but had no clue why all the boys were acting like girls (and at one point a certain chorus boy in Mamma Mia, kept posing ala Madonna and he didnt think anyone was watching... tragic.

And that begs the question... how does a casting director or director say... please butch it up, he's more manly then you're playing it? with out offending SOMEONE?

I dont think a gay guy should be offended if his director tells him to butch it up. Just like a straight actor when playing a gay role is not offended when told to act a little more forward and flamboyant. A gay actor (and there are plenty that are not guilty of this, so please forgive) should also know themselves well enough to know that they need to step out of the person they are in real life, just like an American Actor playing an Englishman, or vice versa. Just remember, not every show is La Cage.

Whatever.. there are plenty of hot, gay actors who can play straight and there are plenty of hot little gay boys who like to twirl and dance, and I thank the higher power for all of them... well most.

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