Bad H!mo: How Musical Theatre Tested My Relationship: OUT.com
Bad H!mo: How Musical Theatre Tested My Relationship: OUT.com
#1Bad H!mo: How Musical Theatre Tested My Relationship: OUT.com
Posted: 7/25/16 at 1:33pm
This is an OUT.com article. After reading this, I didn't really like the way the author expressed himself. At least to me, he cast himself in quite a negative light. You decide. http://www.out.com/out-exclusives/2016/7/25/bad-homo-how-musical-theater-tested-my-relationship
"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)
Updated On: 7/25/16 at 01:33 PM
#2Bad H!mo: How Musical Theatre Tested My Relationship: OUT.com
Posted: 7/25/16 at 1:53pm
...I really don't understand the point of this essay at all.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Updated On: 7/25/16 at 01:53 PM
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Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/16
#3Bad H!mo: How Musical Theatre Tested My Relationship: OUT.com
Posted: 7/25/16 at 2:05pm
What is the point?
#4Bad H!mo: How Musical Theatre Tested My Relationship: OUT.com
Posted: 7/25/16 at 2:08pm
Okay what?!
Caption: Every so often there was a rare moment of perfect balance when I soared above him.
#5Bad H!mo: How Musical Theatre Tested My Relationship: OUT.com
Posted: 7/25/16 at 2:15pm
The point is clearly that two chubby queens drinking pink cocktails can be the powerful cause of an epiphany, especially when trying to decide which stereotype to hate or be.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.
#6Bad Homo: How Musical Theatre Tested My Relationship: OUT.com
Posted: 7/25/16 at 2:44pm
this article made me cringe.
"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."
Roscoe
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#7Bad Homo: How Musical Theatre Tested My Relationship: OUT.com
Posted: 7/25/16 at 2:51pm
Anyone who designates GYPSY as a "kid classic" is too foolish to waste any further time on.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
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Updated On: 7/25/16 at 02:51 PM
#8Bad Homo: How Musical Theatre Tested My Relationship: OUT.com
Posted: 7/25/16 at 2:55pm
Subjectively, I found this essay to be high in Ick Value. Objectively, it's a good warning of the pitfalls of freshman-level comic/sentimental writing. However, I've no doubt that it (and the writer) will find some admirers.
¿Macavity?
Broadway Star Joined: 1/29/16
#9Bad Homo: How Musical Theatre Tested My Relationship: OUT.com
Posted: 7/25/16 at 2:58pm
This...hurts...badly...
Updated On: 7/25/16 at 02:58 PM#10Bad Homo: How Musical Theatre Tested My Relationship: OUT.com
Posted: 7/25/16 at 2:58pm
I mean, yeah, it's bad writing... but I really am having difficulty discerning what the conclusion he reached was. That musicals are better than jerks?
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#12Bad Homo: How Musical Theatre Tested My Relationship: OUT.com
Posted: 7/25/16 at 3:11pm
Musicals are just a McGuffin here; the writer's "message" is that the boring older boyfriend who really likes him is a much better choice than the hot but self-obsessed fantasy man. A profound message that's NEVER been expressed before, right?
#13Bad Homo: How Musical Theatre Tested My Relationship: OUT.com
Posted: 7/25/16 at 3:27pm
That was my take away, if I had any take away. As mentioned I guess it's meant to be a comic piece but with a sentimental "touching" element. It just makes me feel sorry for Hugh (and anyone who has seen this guy's work on stage as the byline says his work has been). Honestly I've had far worse first dates that I haven't walked out on, and from the little said, the actor guy doesn't really come off worse than the author.
And yeah--Gypsy is a kid classic like Peter Pan? Why didn't he mention those other kid classics--Sweeney Todd and Oh Calcutta?
#14Bad Homo: How Musical Theatre Tested My Relationship: OUT.com
Posted: 7/25/16 at 3:38pm
Just wasted 5mins reading that turdfest--what a dickwad !
I suppose one must be tolerent of all types of sexual identity but from my relatively isolated perspective, I had no idea these 'types' still existed.
Lisping bitter old queens were a majority in my surrounding social set but their self-deprecating humour always cracked up the room.
Pointless, arrogrant, juvenile, ignorant---now I've wasted ANOTHER 5mins
Drunk goes into a confessional, priests waits a respectful few minutes-silence-waits-silence then decides to knock, then knocks again. Voice comes back 'There's no paper in here either'.
Happy Days.........SL....x
#15Bad Homo: How Musical Theatre Tested My Relationship: OUT.com
Posted: 7/25/16 at 8:51pm
This was actually accepted for publication? Awkward.
#16Bad Homo: How Musical Theatre Tested My Relationship: OUT.com
Posted: 7/25/16 at 9:08pm
I couldn't finish it. The superficial ramblings of a self-absorbed twink "playwright" just doesn't do it for me. I guess I'm just not Out's target audience if they feel there was value in publishing that crap.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
¿Macavity?
Broadway Star Joined: 1/29/16
#17Bad Homo: How Musical Theatre Tested My Relationship: OUT.com
Posted: 7/25/16 at 9:48pm
Well, here's what I got out of it, he's a self-centered man with poor writing skills and bizarre tastes in theatre.
musicals1989
Understudy Joined: 9/16/11
#18Bad Homo: How Musical Theatre Tested My Relationship: OUT.com
Posted: 7/25/16 at 10:13pm
okay, but who is "Hugh"....
#19Bad Homo: How Musical Theatre Tested My Relationship: OUT.com
Posted: 7/26/16 at 8:27am
Candidates for "Hugh" would be, I assume, one of two original cast members:
Harry Bouvy 
or Howard Kaye. 
Here, by the way, is a photo of the author. 
Erzlump
Understudy Joined: 5/31/11
#20Bad Homo: How Musical Theatre Tested My Relationship: OUT.com
Posted: 7/26/16 at 9:06am
That's the author? He writes about himself like he's the most handsome twink one could find.
To me it seemed like he tried to pull of a "Moments in the Woods" - Actor Prince Charming vs. Older Boyfriend Baker; even with the same kind of conclusion at the end. Didn't quite succeed, as it was indeed just cringeworthy in style and writing.
