VIDEO: Playwright Mart Crowley Talks THE BOYS IN THE BAND on CBS Sunday Morning

By: May. 06, 2018
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Playwright Mart Crowley appeared on CBS Sunday Morning to talk about his current Broadway play The Boys in the Band.

"The woman agent said to me, 'This is an outrageous play. I cannot send it out of this office with our letterhead on it,'" Crowley said. "And I almost collapsed into tears right there, 'cause I thought, This is really the end of the line."

Crowley was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi. After graduating from The Catholic University of America (Studying in acting and show business) in Washington, D.C. in 1957, Crowley headed west to Hollywood, where he worked for a number of television production companies before meeting Natalie Wood on the set of her film Splendor in the Grass. Wood hired him as her assistant, primarily to give him ample free time to work on his gay-themed play The Boys in the Band, which opened off-Broadway on April 14, 1968 and enjoyed a run of 1,000 performances. Crowley became part of Wood's inner circle of friends that she called "the nucleus", whose main requirement was that they pass a "kindness" test.

The Boys in the Band was adapted into a film in 1970 directed by William Friedkin. Crowley's sequel to The Boys in the Band was entitled The Men from the Boys. Crowley also wrote and produced Remote Asylum and the autobiographical A Breeze from the Gulf.

Directed by Joe Mantello and produced by Ryan Murphy and David Stone,The Boys in the Band will play a strictly limited 15-week Broadway engagement at the Booth Theatre (222 West 45th Street), beginning previews Monday, April 30, 2018 and officially opening on Thursday, May 31, 2018.

The Boys In The Band will star Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer and Andrew Rannells, along with Charlie Carver, Robin De Jesús, Brian Hutchison, Michael Benjamin Washington and Tuc Watkins.

Tickets, priced $57.00 - $167.00, are available at www.BoysInTheBand.com or www.Telecharge.com (212.239.6200).



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