Friday, March 19, 2010

Grease, The Musical - Only Gayer.

I have a few friends in this production presented by the Washington DC Gay Men's Chorus, and here's what the Washington Post has to say today:

The Gay Men's Chorus version of "Grease" could be called a classic retelling, what with its adherence to the original script by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. But the Pink Ladies?
Well, they'll be played by men.
"Sandy is still Sandy, Rizzo is still Rizzo," insists Artistic Director Jeff Buhrman. And good-girl -- or in this case good boy -- Sandy and her bad-boy summer crush, Danny, still can't admit their feelings for fear of upsetting their high school's rigid social circles.But the chorus's all-male "Grease," which runs Friday through Sunday at George Washington University's Lisner Auditorium, offers an opportunity to imagine high school as a more accepting place than the one many of them experienced.
"For myself, and for many other gay men, high school was a very difficult time. It was a time of great loneliness and feeling unaccepted by peers," Buhrman says. This production of "Grease," he says, is "a version of high school where gays can be cool and confident, and where a gay crush is the norm."
The show is the third all-male retelling the chorus has staged, after "Bye Bye Birdie" and "The Wizard of Oz."

Read more HERE! And get tickets if you're in DC this weekend.

And so it goes.
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