Valley of the Dolls – A Staged Reading
Category: Theatre | tagged drama, gay-playapooloza, Valley of the Dolls
What a fabulous evening! The Actors Fund benefit staged reading of Valley of the Dolls was spectacular. An all-star cast performed the 1967 cult classic film nearly in its entirety and very literally, which amped up the camp value exponentially.
Check out this cast: Charles Busch (a Tony nominated playwright and accomplished actor from Die Mommie [...]
The Pride
Category: Theatre | tagged drama, gay, gay-playapooloza, off-Broadway, play, The Pride
Week three of Gay-playapooloza brought us to the MCC Theatre production of Alexi Kaye Campbell’s The Pride. This play, Campbell’s first, debuted in London in 2008 and won him the Critics’ Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright and the John Whiting Award for Best Play while the production itself won an Olivier Award. The awards [...]
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The Temperamentals
Category: Theatre | tagged drama, gay, gay-playapooloza, off-Broadway, play, The Temperamentals
We started our gay-playapooloza this afternoon with Jon Marans’ play The Temperamentals, which started previews on Thursday for its open-ended run at New World Stages. The show premiered in 2009 as a showcase production at the TBG Theater’s 40-seat Black Box Studio, and later extended into a full two-month run at the TBG’s 99-seat space. [...]
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Dear John
I’ve been looking forward to Dear John since I saw the trailer last fall. I’m a sucker for a film based on a Nicholas Sparks novel since The Notebook and this movie did not let me down.
In the same way that Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams were perfect in The Notebook, Channing Tatum and Amanda [...]
2012
2012 satiated my disaster movie fix very nicely. Roland Emmerich has not always pulled that off successfully. The Day After Tomorrow was quite good, but Independence Day and Godzilla were both unsatisfying (with Godzilla being one of the worst movies I’ve ever sat through). With 2012 Emmerich destroyed the world, kept his characters from being [...]
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Whip It
No. It’s not about the Devo song. Whip It refers to a roller derby move where you grab your teammate and whip them around the rink so they have added momentum. Not only was this a fun movie, you do get roller derby 101 out of it too.
Whip It, which Shauna Cross adapted from her [...]
Post Grad
Category: Movies | tagged comedy, drama, Gilmore Girls, Post Grad, summer
Post Grad must have looked good–and timely–on paper. “Ryden Malby graduates from college and is forced to move back into her childhood home with her eccentric family, while she attempts to find a job, the right guy, and just a hint of where her life is headed,” says the plot summary on IMDB.
Good cast too: [...]
Julie & Julia
What a delightful movie!
Of course, how could you go wrong with Meryl Streep and Amy Adams. But Julie & Julia went beyond these two actresses. What a wonderful story. Just seeing the history of how Julia Child started out in cooking, went on to write Mastering the Art of French Cooking and become a household [...]
Breakfast with Scot
Category: Hockey, Movies | tagged Breakfast with Scot, comedy, drama, gay
Breakfast with Scot has been on my radar since February 2007 when I heard it became the first gay themed film to get approval from an NHL team to use its logo. Last spring I read the Michael Downing novel the film is based on. Over the weekend, I finally saw the movie.
The quick synopsis [...]
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 made for a very enjoyable afternoon at the movies. I liked the first one a lot and the sequel lived up to expectations. The only glitch I felt with the movie is that the pacing wasn’t as fluid. There was a lot of back and forth between the [...]
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