THE BOYS IN THE BAND: 2-disc Special Edition DVD coming 2008!
THE BOYS IN THE BAND: 2-disc Special Edition DVD coming 2008!
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#1THE BOYS IN THE BAND: 2-disc Special Edition DVD coming 2008!
Posted: 7/4/07 at 4:50pm
Per a CBS Home Video rep, they are planning to release the 1970 film-version of THE BOYS IN THE BAND next year as a 2-disc Special Edition DVD for the play's 40th Anniversary, featuring interviews with playwright/screenwriter Mart Crowley, Dominick Dunne, the film's director William Friedkin, etc. Yes, the film will be presented in anamorphic widescreen.
THE BOYS IN THE BAND will also be shown at the Tribeca Film Festival next year for the 40th Anniversary.
#2re: THE BOYS IN THE BAND: 2-disc Special Edition DVD coming 2008!
Posted: 7/4/07 at 5:04pmIt was shown, back to back with Staircase on TCM during Pride month. I taped it, but I haven't watched it yet. I saw it in the theatre years ago, and saw the Off Bway revival in 1997. I was there opening night and got Mart Crowley's autograph on the playbill.
NYC Visitor and Broadway Fan
Leading Actor Joined: 12/31/69
#2re: THE BOYS IN THE BAND: 2-disc Special Edition DVD coming 2008!
Posted: 7/4/07 at 5:13pmWOW! this is one of those releases that will sell like crazy for about a week till all the obsessed fans get it-- then will go out of print and never be seen again. It's worth seeing, certainly, if only to see how far we've come.
#3re: THE BOYS IN THE BAND: 2-disc Special Edition DVD coming 2008!
Posted: 7/4/07 at 5:38pmaww yay i'm so excited!
#4re: THE BOYS IN THE BAND: 2-disc Special Edition DVD coming 2008!
Posted: 7/4/07 at 11:24pmIs this a REAL DVD release, BrodyFosse123, or are you jerking us around the way you did with the three disk DVD of "Little Night Music"?
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BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#5re: THE BOYS IN THE BAND: 2-disc Special Edition DVD coming 2008!
Posted: 7/4/07 at 11:45pm
Nope. This is official. Contact CBS Home Video for yourself, as well as Mart Crowley, Dominick Dunne and William Friedkin.
Also, to correct you...it was a 4-disc DVD Special Edition of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, not 3. AND I wasn't the one who started that crap. It was some smart-ass clerk at BestBuy, followed by CapnHook. I just added to the pie. Nothing more; nothing less.
Ftworthguy
Featured Actor Joined: 6/5/07
#6re: THE BOYS IN THE BAND: 2-disc Special Edition DVD coming 2008!
Posted: 7/5/07 at 12:19amI can't WAIT -- I did this show in 2000, I played Emory -- although dated, it's a VERY important play/movie for the gay community. It will be great to have a deluxe DVD release.
#7re: THE BOYS IN THE BAND: 2-disc Special Edition DVD coming 2008!
Posted: 7/5/07 at 12:21am
Is this movie still relevant in today's modern gay culture?
I watched it from TCM the other day and liked it, as a cultural historical showpiece but definitely kinda of dated.
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