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#1

gay character's coming out

Posted: 1/14/07 at 8:30pm

I was very intrigued by the "coming out" process Alfie Byrne ("man of no imprtance") goes through.

are there any other "coming out"s in musicals?

just a few gay characters that come to mind are:
those in La Cage,
Falsettoes,
Spring awakening,
a new brain,
Avenue Q


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Updated On: 1/15/07 at 08:30 PM

#2

re: gay charecters' coming out

Posted: 1/14/07 at 9:02pm

Cabaret, I suppose

EDIT: Cliff is the character- he (moreso in the movie than the show) blurtingly admits to Sally that he screwed a man.

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Updated On: 1/16/07 at 09:02 PM

#5

re: gay charecters' coming out

Posted: 1/14/07 at 10:35pm

Well it is talked about in A Chorus Line, although its hardly a focal point like, say, Falsettos.
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#7

re: gay charecters' coming out

Posted: 1/14/07 at 11:33pm

The best and most amazing musical ever created... Bare a pop opera

AHAHAHHAHHA. I mean, I like it and all. But spare the hyperbole. :)

No one comes out in Spring Awakening.
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#8

re: gay charecters' coming out

Posted: 1/14/07 at 11:41pm

Most definitely -- Chad coming out to "Ed" in ALL SHOOK UP!


#9

re: gay charecters' coming out

Posted: 1/14/07 at 11:44pm

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#10

re: gay charecters' coming out

Posted: 1/15/07 at 1:13am

I don't think that either "La Cage Aux Folles" or "A New Brain" exactly fit into your category.

No one in "La Cage" "comes out" in the course of the show. Georges and Albin are both out gay men. I'd say that the problems come when they try to act straight.

And, I can't be one hundred percent sure about "A New Brain," having only listened to the album and never having read the script, but I don't think anyone "comes out" in that show either. I'm assuming that you don't know that the main character is gay until his boyfriend comes to visit him in the hospital.

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#11

re: gay charecters' coming out

Posted: 1/15/07 at 2:51am

True, but the importance of coming out is a major theme of La Cage.
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#12

re: gay charecters' coming out

Posted: 1/15/07 at 3:18am

His name is Lancelot! And, in tight pants a lot...
...And so, there I was at the stage door for "Equus". The enthused avalanche of "Harry Potter" fans was literally pushing me into the barricades. As I was thrust face-first into Daniel Radcliffe's hat, I suddenly felt the thumb of a lanky gentleman behind me pressing firmly into my back. It was then that I realized that both of his hands had Playbills, and that both arms were outstretched in front of me...
#14

re: gay charecters' coming out

Posted: 1/16/07 at 12:40am

All Shook Up had a gay relationship?

I agree Spring Awakening doesn't really feel like someone "coming out" to me--it's more ambiguous.

Howabout Sondheim's Bounce?

Molina comes out in a sense in Kiss of the Spiderwoman but I think it's pretty obvious to everyone that he is from the start
#15

re: gay charecters' coming out

Posted: 1/16/07 at 12:46am

Would Michael's kiss in Billy Elliot count as "coming out" ?
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#16

re: gay charecters' coming out

Posted: 1/16/07 at 1:53am

Having only seen the movie and not the musical, isn't there a coming out in "The Full Monty"?
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#17

re: gay charecters' coming out

Posted: 1/16/07 at 2:04am

All Shook Up had a gay relationship?

Well, if you count Cheyenne Jackson falling in love with Jenn Gambatese only when she's dressed as a man, then yes.
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#18

re: gay charecters' coming out

Posted: 1/16/07 at 2:22am

Ah so it's the classical Shakespearian comedy definition of gay love :P
#19

re: gay charecters' coming out

Posted: 1/16/07 at 9:32am

mattonstage -- yes, there is. Although I saw the show only once and don't even remember which character. I'm thinking it was the dude who ran into walls.
#20

re: gay charecters' coming out

Posted: 1/16/07 at 9:37am

First one that comes to mind is Spamalot.

Also, in Altar Boyz, Mark comes 'out' as a Catholic...
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#22

re: gay charecters' coming out

Posted: 1/16/07 at 1:40pm

No one comes out in A New Brain--they are known to be gay before the show. No one really comes out in Falsettos either--I guess Marvin sort of comes out in In Trousers.
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#23

re: gay charecters' coming out

Posted: 1/16/07 at 1:52pm

There is the same character coming out in the musical of The Full Monty as in the movie, and they have a lovely duet in the mother's funeral scene.

There's also a coming out, albeit a minor one, in Urinetown.

Oh, and there's technically a coming out in The Wild Party, I think, too.
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Updated On: 1/16/07 at 01:52 PM

#24

re: gay charecters' coming out

Posted: 1/16/07 at 4:56pm

I thought in Wild Party it was more or less just taken for granted that everyone was "abisextrous"
#25

re: gay charecters' coming out

Posted: 1/16/07 at 5:28pm

i think you all are forgetting about avenue Q, duh.

you silly kids.
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