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The Distinctive Baritone said: "I'm sure his claims that she was being cruel to him are true, but I'm not sure if calling a young gay man "a little homosexual boy" is technically hate speech. It's really rude and unprofessional, but if he wants to win a lawsuit against her, he should focus on the wrongful terminationpart."

Can you clarify why you're using the term 'hate speech' here?  I didn't see the term used in the articl

getupngo said: "GeorgeandDot said: "The difference between a straight actor playing a gay role and a gay actor playing a gay role? The gay actor can bring their own personal truth to a role and provide a voice to a community that has been silenced for so long. The gay community is an oppressed minority that deserves to have their voices be heard."

But the opposite could also be said for a gay person playing a straight role. The gay actor cannot bring the

And when people get patronizing and say, 'Be careful what you wish for!  You don't want to play only gay roles do you????'  I lose my ever-loving mind.  First of all, that kind of question is EXACTLY how the majority keeps the minority down.  And second, YES.  Yes...I do want to play only gay roles, actually.  Not all actors feel this way, but the older I've gotten, the more important it has become to me to tell our stories.

I mean...do I w

_(•_&bull_/ said: "With that mentality gay people can’t play straight roles!"

Which is exactly what 97% of the entertainment business believes.

I mean...it's real sweet that you all believe in parity and equality of opportunity...but that is in no way how this business works.  There is no level playing field.  At all. 

Again...it's getting better.&n

Straight actors get the straight roles AND the gay roles.  Gay actors get told they aren't believable as the straight roles and then watch the straight actors win awards for the gay roles.

It's the lie of the acting meritocracy.  'Best actor for the role.'  That really seems to work out well for all those straight actors who have won Oscars for gay roles (see this past year's Academy Awards...3 more straight actors added to that list).  But it do

Joe Iconis is a first-time Broadway composer with BMC and his score was the only nomination for the show.  Michael in the Bathroom is NOT Hello, Dolly or Chandelier in terms of a song that has truly broken through as some kind of cultural touchstone most people have heard.  And the producers refused them a performing slot of that very same song and then did a full length parody of said song without noting the show for which it's score is nominated score or the c

PERESTROIKA has been changed since the Broadway productions.  It's much messier than MILLENNIUM APPROACHES (which is probably why I love it more). 

A month of previews for a new play seems about right.  And since this is a two-part play, I think they'd be crazy not to have a long preview period where both parts get equal time in front of audiences.  I certainly hope the American premiere of a deeply lauded new work by an American playwright that takes place

I think you are misreading the 1980s...thinking it was such a long time ago and the kind of behavior portrayed in this play was seen as endearing.  The play was written during and in response to the AIDS crisis when sex was considered dangerous.  The element of danger you're seeing isn't some new thing from a woke perspective.  It's baked into the DNA of this play.  It is supposed to be unsettling in those moments.  This is a portrait of two deeply lonely,

Wick3 said: "Tag said: "Angel and Collins singing I'll Cover You in 1996 was groundbreaking. Not this."

Agreed.

This DEH video is still pretty cute, though I wouldn't consider it groundbreaking."

And Marvin singing What More Can I Say? in bed with Whizzer post-sex (as implied in the original staging and Michael Rupert's perfect performance predated Angel and Collins by four-five years. 

Some reactions i

Similar, yes.  You are limited to the number of cortisone injections you can have in a year due to damage it can do to your body.  Taking prednisone should also be a rare occasion.  I've taken prednisone numerous times, but only once for vocal production. 

When we were discussing RENT live, I brought up how rough Valentina's voice sounded during Today 4 U.  I believe it was a disservice to him to air that performance of the dress rehearsal as he would h

I've had a personal steamer for the last 20 years, so they're not that new in terms of what people are using in order to aid in keeping their voices healthy.  The best thing one can do is to do gentle warm-ups using semi-occluded vocal exercises: humming, blowing through the lips and, the mack-daddy of all, the use of a straw, either by humming through the straw or blowing through the straw into a glass of water.  I don't know the full science behind it...my new voice te

Though I wasn't a big YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN fan, Mullaley was sensational onstage.  A big presence with a huge, terrific voice.  She's the exact right type to pull of a madcap sophisticate who eschews having children only to find that she melts into the role of being Patrick's Auntie Mame.  She would nail every last bit of comedy (and probably find laughs that might not even be there, as she does on Will & Grace) and she can deliver on the vulnerability needed to b

DigificWriter said: "I don't know exactly what you're ranting about, but I think you might want to, in the words of Obi-Wan Kenobi, "go home and rethink your life".

If this production of RENT was such an "affront" to your sensibilities, I wouldsuggest that the problem lies with you and not the production.

Edit: I quoted the wrong person, and have fixed my error."

I mean...you didn't even hear the vocal distress Va