bronx sees Good Vibrations + too many gays + Judi Dench conducting — Page 2

but see the OTHER thing being missed here is this notion that all gay actors are raging girly boys and that all straight actors are butch.

This is not the case.

It all boils down to being a good actor--CAN you play the character and not just be yourself?

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SING IT, SISTAH!

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VAGUE GV SPOILER WARNING

Did anyone notice how careful they were in GV with the gay couple? Once 'you know who' professes his love to 'you know who', they touch like once in rest of the show. Even when everyone is onstage at the end singing God Only Knows and they're all coupled up, the gay couple never gets within 3 feet of each other. They only even looked at each other once. I felt like they were directed that way, to not offend anyone with some scary male hugging onstafe. It was a big load of BS.

There are many gay actors who can play straight with no problem (Sieber, NPH, Burtka, to name a few) it's an acting problem not an innate one. It does bother me sometimes 'cause you just don't but the relationships. Those two or three guys who keep hitting on what's her name in Mamma Mia! during their big dance number couldn't have been more gay when I saw it. Though Mamma Mia isn't the straightest arrow in the box anyways...

To his credit I liked Eddie's understudy, he had one of the only three or four redeemable numbers in the whole show. The show was so bad I didn't care that he was kind of a gay chris rock. He sang the crap out of that music though, and stayed on pitch, which was rare that night. I would like to see Tituss...

Bronxboundexpress, your comments are truly disturbing, whether said in jest or in absolute seriousness. What you wrote is much too close to what was being said in Nazi Germany about the Jews. "Too many of them." Educate yourself about the dangers of bigotry. Think just a bit about what you said, and about the consequences of these types of remarks. The many gay people on this board, including myself, deserve an apology from you.

Saw Good Vibrations last night and have only one thing to say:

UNBEARABLE.

Paid $3 for the ticket which was about $2.50 too much.

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Except that's it is supposed to be five years into the future. I wish they'd be a little closer, especially since the girls hang off their guys.

Yes, Matt is correct and i WAS in fact joking. That is my whole purpose on this board tragically though I am trying to cut back. Don't worry you all. I am not a bigot. The joke was that "being gay should a privilage for a few of us and there is an abundance." lol Anyway, I think this topic I started about seeing gay people on stage rather than the characters is an important one so keep it going if you want.

Bronx, I don't know if you've noticed this, but your sense of humor absolutely doesn't work in print. Maybe it's funny when you say these things out loud to your friends; I don't know, but I haven't seen anyone "misinterpreted" as often as you on this board.

I have to admit, I've sometimes equated acting "too gay" with bad acting, because bad acting is occasionally expressed as being too gay.

I saw Godspell at a community theater production and the actor playing Jesus was noticeably effeminate from the moment he came out on stage. This could have been overlooked, but when it got to the point that he was (literally) grabbing other guys' asses and winking at them, it was no longer considered "acting too gay" with actually BEING gay- no acting involved and just happening to be onstage at the time.

This happened when I was 12; I never returned to that theater and I never saw Godspell again. Something about making a religious figure flamboyantly gay really bothered me. So when an actor in another show I'm seeing happens to be slightly effeminate, I regress and worry that- oh god, it's happening again and another show is ruined for me. While I've never encountered another case of bad acting quite like this since, it does make me a bit more sensitive.

The problem isn't gay actors, it's bad actors that cannot effectively portray the character, for whatever reason. If too much of your own personality comes out, it's not considered acting anymore.

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Wait...Jesus was grabbing other guys' asses on stage? THAT is my kind of deity!

FInally a concept for Godspell that makes sense!

The band?

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And then, doctor, I fell out of bed and the whole thread had been a dream!

bronx lay off the crack will you?