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Get ready, New Yorkers, the performers of Breaking Out in Song are going to randomly entertain to you all over the city. From July 16-19, random song and dance performances will be taking place all over the city to Broadway hits such as "Consider Yourself," "If My Friends Could See Me Now" and even "Don't Rain on My Parade."
Now, I can't tell you where they'll be performing, but if you head on over to their website you can check out the list of choreographers, video and musical directors, casting directors, production managers, and producers. With a tagline like, "All the world's a stage. We'll prove it in NYC," who wouldn't want to see the performances? I hope I'm lucky enough to catch a showing...
Check out lots more footage of the rehearsals...after the jump!
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These photos have absolutely nothing to do with Broadway, but who cares???
Okay, I got carried away with that completely mendacious post title, but... News just came out that studly (if often strangely pouty-lipped) Daniel Craig and studly (if oft blade-fingered and/or show-tune singing) Hugh Jackman are gonna be in a play together on Broadway this fall. First Jude Law, now this?
The play (not a musical, sorry) is called A Steady Rain and it's about Chicago cops. (Bring on the fake Yank accents!) But "Rain" eh? Might they get wet? Might there be nudity? Might there be full-frontal action? Oh, of course probably not but still... The play in my mind will have all of those things.
Quotes about the play have called it a "hallucinatory roller-coaster ride" (in my hallucination they're getting busy on that roller-coaster) and it also says the play's story is "riddled with love, loyalty, guilt, shame, and a primal inevitability." Helloooo!!! They're totally gonna do it!! Bring on the serious shame!!!
Find out more via Playbill. Perfs begin on September 10th and will run for 12 weeks only. See you at the Stage Door!
"What a piece of work..."
Not only can you spot Jude Law in the reportedly homo-tastic-ish Sherlock Holmes film this September, you can also buy tickets to catch him onstage as Hamlet in a big production being imported over from London's classy/edgy Donmar Warehouse. Law's currently playing the role there, it's a hit, and it's set to begin previews on Broadway on September 12th, and run for 12 weeks at the Broadhurst Theatre. Opening night is October 6th.
Michael Grandage (Frost/Nixon) will direct. And it's likely that more Brits will join the NYC cast; full casting details will come later. AmEx cardholders can buy tix today; the general public can shop for Jude/Hamlet seats starting July 18th.
More Jude pics (including one from the London production) after the jump!
Continue reading "Jude Law "To Be" Broadway's Next Hamlet" »
Hot host Alan Cumming and the amFAR-award-winning legendary Lady Bunny!
Last night in NYC, the esteemed AIDS-fighting/awareness-raising organization amfAR held its 10th-annual Honoring with Pride gala, in which the bestowed Courage Awards on three notables who've been fighting the battle against AIDS for years: drag legend Lady Bunny, fashion mogul Patricia Field, and long-time activist/Harvey Milk colleague/AIDS Quilt & NAMES Project founder Cleve Jones.
The shindig was held at the Edison Ballroom and was a pretty swank who's-who of NYC gay celebs, showbiz folks, fashion stars and all-around do-gooders! I went and snapped many pics, and rubbed elbows with Project Runway alums (Jack Mackenroth, Kevin Christiana & Christian Siriano), music stars (Debbie Harry, Ari Gold, Colton Ford), designers (Kenneth Cole, The Blonds) and all around glam types (Alan Cumming, Jenny Shimizu, Michael Musto, Cheyenne Jackson)...
Lady Bunny was the most garrulous award recipient, turning her acceptance speech into a rollicking and hilarious foul-mouthed monologue of zingers, teasing her old pal Pat Field, Flotilla, bragging that her hair was bigger & better than amfAR founder Dr. Mathilde Krim's, and generally cracking filthy jokes about servicing busboys ("See this trophy? Now, I'm an award-winning c***sucker!"). But truly, Bunny -- who founded Wigstock and has DJ'd more AIDS benefits than probably anyone -- has always, in her fabulously abrasive and smartly tart way been a champion of queer equality and AIDS awareness.
Continue reading "Lady Bunny, Patricia Field & Cleve Jones Score amfAR Honors!" »
The NewNowNext Awards air this Saturday (June 13th, 9pm) on Logo. It's hosted by RuPaul, you can spot appearances by Lady Gaga & Britney Spears, and you'll also get Vanessa Williams, a few Real Housewives, hot stage stud Cheyenne Jackson, Gossip Girl's Taylor Momsen, up-and-coming music stars like Livvi Franc, The Fire and Reason, the Paradiso Girls (who perform and turn it out), hot artists like Eve, Sia and Morningwood, and, well... a whole bunch of delicious people. Paulina Porizkova even is forced to lip-sync for her life!
And the mad red-carpet reporter Mike Diamond can also be glimpsed during the big pre-show (which airs at 8pm); he's certifiable! And amazing. Watch him interview the stars of Avenue Q above, where quizzes them on topics such as f*sting, drug abuse and his love of furry folks.
Below, you can see a spicy little trailer for the show. Watch the whole thing this Saturday night (June 13th) starting at 8pm at NewNowNextAwards.com!
Liza and cast members from Hair, Shrek & everything else serve up a love-in at the Tonys!
The Tony Awards last night were a fun mess. The show moved pretty tightly with Neil Patrick Harris as its fantastic, yeomanlike host, moving it all along clad in a leathery-looking tuxedo. The big opening number medley gave us Liza, the cast of Hair attacking the audience, Dolly Parton, Elton John, Stockard Channing looking drag-queeny and a sluggish Bret Michaels getting throttled by moving scenery.
Billy Elliot won most of the big awards, including Best Musical and its three young Billys jointly took home the prize for Best Actor in Musical. Their gobsmacked acceptance speech (shades of Anna Paquin's Oscar win) was adorable! Liza rocked the stage as a performer, presenter and winner (for Liza's at the Palace) and her legendary ebullience never gets old.
David Alvarez, Kiril Kulish and Trent Kowalik, aka "Billy Elliot." Yay!
AfterElton's got a great write-up and list of winners. One complaint: Whoever was directing the camera coverage of the show was drunk! I'm sure it's hard to capture all the dancing and singing when a huge group number is happening on stage, but the big musical moments during the show were a slipshod mess, camera-wise. Somebody needs to talk to someone from, say, the MTV Video Music Awards to find out how to cover these kinds of things.
Best moment of the night? Apart from moving acceptance speeches (Karen Olivo from West Side Story, Jerry Herman snagging a Lifetime Achievement Award, the three Billy Elliots and a wacky, nearly ranting Alice Ripley) and some fun peformances by the casts of Hair and West Side Story, it was Neil Patrick Harris' fun closing number, sung as the show wrapped. Watch it now, but hurry because I'm sure it will be yanked down soon.
NPH is adorable even when he's being stern. Awwwwwww...
Cynthia Nixon at the Broadway Impact rally in NYC. Call her Mrs. Big, perhaps?
Sex and the City's Cynthia Nixon is engaged and plans to get hitched! At yesterday's big Broadway Impact rally in NYC to voice support for gay marriage, Nixon announced she and her longtime girlfriend Christine Marinoni have swapped rings and plan to make it official! Nice!
Watch a great video of Nixon's empowering speech at Broadway.TV. And there's more coverage on AfterEllen and JoeMyGod, too! And yes, DListed (Nixon and Marinoni's #1 fan) is on it, too!
Other stars at the massive rally included Cheyenne Jackson, David Hyde Pierce and the cast of Broadway's Hair. And if you're a fan of Hair's leading man, cute out actor Gavin Creel, he's been blogging about the Broadway Impact marriage cause for awhile.
It's a bright and shiny day in Gay-land!!!! Kylie Minogue has announced she's coming to the US for her first-ever North American tour this fall. Right now, little fawns and ponies and fairies are dancing and rejoicing, from P'town to Blacks Beach (which is just outside of San Diego and full of nudies, fyi)!
I may have to get an American Express card just to be able to buy tix a week before all the other gays. (AmEx cardholders can snatch tix on May 7th -- which is tomorrow! ack!). Everybody else must wait til May 16th.)
The glittery glamfest begins on Sept. 30th in Oakland, and prances through Vegas, L.A., Chicago, Toronto and NYC from there on! See tour dates.
And befitting a nelly icon of her status, Kylie will visit with the wonderful & hag-tastic Kathie Lee and Hoda on The Today Show this Sunday, May 8th to discuss it all. I'll be drunk and watching!!! With my Mom!!!
Below is the graphic Ky-Ky's got posted for the tour already. Bonkers! Brilliance!
After the jump, four reason why she rules... Video-style!
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Start with a strong-woman ensemble piece like the 1980 film “9 to 5.” Add music written by gay-fave country diva Dolly Parton. Throw in an orchestra, some sequins and a bit of razzle-dazzle, and you should have a recipe for a little slice of gay heaven.
"9 to 5: The Musical," which opened at New York's Marriott Marquis Theater last night, comes pretty close.
There's reason for skepticism. The whole show hangs on one song, the movie's Oscar-nominated, Parton-penned title track. Is it enough?
This story could have been expressly written for the stage: Three secretaries, Violet, Judy and Doralee, fed up with taking memos and fetching coffee for cigar-chomping chauvinists under a class ceiling, hack the legs off the corporate ladder to get revenge on their boss, the "sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot," Mr. Franklin Hart, Jr (Marc Kudisch). Between the 6 a.m. alarm at the top of the show and the triumphant finale, there's an office sex scandal, a little pot smoke, a mix-up with a dead body at the hospital, and some light bondage.
Um … yes please!
Continue reading ""9 to 5: The Musical" - A Review" »
Bea dazzled.
Golden Girls and Maude star Bea Arthur, as I'm sure you know, passed away this weekend at her home in L.A.
I got to meet her twice, once when I interviewed for a cover story for NYC's Next Magazine when she was doing her Tony-nominated one-woman show on Broadway in 2004. The second was in 2005, when she generously came back to NYC to do a one-night-only reprisal of the show as a benefit for the Ali Forney Center, the organization which houses homeless LGBT youth and which she steadfastly supported.
She was sharp, really kind and much more timid and frail in person than you'd expect. Of course, she was around 82 years old, and when she arrived for the Next Magazine photo shoot, she was coming from two other press events, including a TV Guide photo shoot. She was tired, but she dove in to the interview and photo shoot, which involved photographer Bradford Noble getting her to rock out, air-guitar-style, and pose in lots of "mod" 60's furniture.
But she was also Bea, so she was funny and a bit imperious. A couple of times during the interview she corrected me about old showbiz facts I was asking about, and once she even said, after I blathered out a ill-worded question "My dear boy, was that a question or were you just rattling on?" I loooved it!
 
Two of the shots of Bea from our Next Magazine cover shoot in 2004. Photos by Bradford Noble; NoblePhoto.com.
More Bea after the jump!
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The scene above is just one of the fab moments from the new showbiz documentary, Every Little Step, which chronicles the origins of the legendary Broadway musical, A Chorus Line. Watching the amazing and heartbreaking Jason Tam nail his audition for the role of the gay dancer Paul (with one of theaterdom's most memorable monologues) for A Chorus Line's 2006 Broadway revival is pretty intense. Grab a Kleenex!
But all of Every Little Step is worth seeing. It's a great portrait of the anxiety of a Broadway audition, the creative process that makes a show possible (from the director to the writer to the choreographer to the actors), and it's just a lovefest for anyone who's ever been a fan of musical theater.
After the jump, our Brad Proctor's got a nice preview of the film, too!
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Rufus Wainright is a "Prima Donna!" No shocker, there! Would you want him any other way?
I've been a massive Rufus fan since day one, I've seen him a zillion times, including his concert doing Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall! In what makes the most sense in the world, he's prepping his debut opera, Prima Donna, for its big premiere this July at the amazingly cool Manchester International Festival in Manchester, England.
The Manchester Fest is a big artsy 17-day extravaganza featuring new works and performances by the likes of Kraftwerk, Antony & the Johnsons, Lou Reed & Laurie Anderson, ballet hottie Carlos Acosta, Damon Albarn and more! And it's where Rufus' gorgeous opera debut will happen!
Watch the video interview with Rufus above to find out more! Opera! Divas! Drama! And Rufus talks about sex with his boyfriend, Anne Hathaway playing Judy Garland, and why he likes rough English blokes.
Continue reading "Rufus Wainwright Interview: Exclusive! His Debut Opera "Prima Donna" Is Coming!" »
The big new revival of West Side Story opens on Broadway tonight. Big stars like Steve Martin, Bobby Cannavale, Sarah Paulson, Lauren Bacall, Vanessa Williams and her little Ugly Betty costar Mark Indelicato, Cheyenne Jackson and others are gonna attend. But I saw it this past Tuesday (Lucy Liu was in the house!). And the show? Really, really wonderful!
Don't get me wrong, some moments worked better than others, but I'd only seen my wonky high school production of the show and to see it get a full-on Broadway treatment was pretty fantastic. In fact, I'm gonna rattle off what I liked about it... So brace yourself for that, now!
And guess who's starring in the show? Our old NewNowNext pal Cody Green, winner of last year's Step It Up & Dance reality show and a visitor here! He's the second male lead and leader of the Jets, Riff. Yay, Cody!
Cody Green = Riff, a jet all the way
After the jump, more of what I loved about this new big splashy revival of West Side Story!
Continue reading "West Side Story Opens Tonight!" »
Natasha Richardson at an AmFAR benefit in NYC last month.
As you've no doubt heard, actress Natasha Richardson was injured in a seemingly minor ski accident outside of Montreal on Monday, which has turned serious. She now in NYC's Lenox Hill Hospital with her family -- including husband Liam Neeson, mother Vanessa Redgrave and sister Joely Richardson -- gathering at her side.
The NY Post is reporting that she's brain dead, and People says it's not looking good, but other reports are being more cautious. Let's hope for the best.
Continue reading "Natasha Richardson in Serious Condition" »
The "Reasons to Be Pretty" cast: Thomas Sadoski, Marin Ireland, Piper Perabo & Stephen Pasquale
Guest Blogger: Bradley Proctor
Want to endure tumultuous emotional relationships but don’t want the trappings of an actual partner? Then you might wanna check out the Broadway show I saw this weekend: Reasons to Be Pretty, in previews now at the Lyceum Theater. It’s Neil LaBute’s Broadway debut, and he is leaving no room for subtlety with his acerbic wit and cutting social commentary.
Bursting out of the New York City bubble, LaBute most identifies with the seemingly simple blue-collar lives of the young people about whom he writes. But the truth is, even if the setting may be less immediate to most New York City theatergoers, the themes are painfully relevant. Who hasn’t felt slighted by an offhand comment about their looks?
So here’s the story: Greg (played by the convincingly vulnerable Thomas Sadoski) made an insensitive comment about his girlfriend Stephanie’s looks - her friend heard it from the other room and immediately told Stephanie. Basically, one simple comment ruined Greg’s relationship and was the epicenter of a chain reaction of relationship woes.
More about the show and the stars after the jump!
Continue reading "Broadway Preview: Reasons to Be Pretty... Or Petty?" »
 
Nick on the cover of HX in January 09; and in his skivvies.
Guys and Dolls is in previews on Broadway right now (opening March 1st) and among its big, ballsy cast is hot out actor/dancer Nick Adams. You've seen Nick on the cover of HX and Instinct, in other B'way shows like A Chorus Line (where he allegedly made Mario Lopez jealous of his muscles), and in 2Xist undies ads.
That's all we needed to know for a reason to chat him up! Watch the video interview as Nick talks about the new show, undressing with Mario Lopez, backstage "showmances" and why he's single.
Warning: You'll hear me ask brilliantly probing questions like "So is it weird being an underwear model?" Lord help us all. Thanks, Nick!
Whoopi, Sandy and Cheyenne at Broadway Backwards Monday night.
Broadway superstud (my term, not his) Cheyenne Jackson got quizzed by New York Magazine about his personal love affair with NYC. It's cute!
Jackson opines about city noise, Donald Trump, the new Times Square vs. old Times Square (that's the mermaids & tranny porn reference), and makes himself the new spokesman for DiGiorno pizza! Check it out!
And catch him at Feinstein's for his one-man cabaret show in early March. If you can get in.
Via AfterElton.
Mercy. Here's a very gay way to start to your day:
Theatre icons Charles Busch, Whoopi Goldberg and Lypsinka will star in the first-ever New York presentation of the infamous Broadway-play-that-wasn’t, LEGENDS!. This legendary catfight was written by Pulitzer-Prize and Tony-Award winner James Kirkwood (A Chorus Line), and will be presented in a special one-night-only staged reading benefit on Monday evening, March 23 at 8PM at Town Hall. Out star of Mad Men, Bryan Batt will also star.
GAY!
 God, I love Australia. Presenting the Gods of Football 2009 Calendar. Sexy. Ridiculous. Necessary. – AfterElton
Daniel Radcliffe sings and dances gaily about “The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Neigh.” Awwww... – Towleroad
Brody Jenner and his Bromance men did sort of gay it up in a hot tub. And he’s cool with that. – E! Online
And I don’t think I can link there directly (we're a family site), but go over to Defamer and scroll down if you’re a fan of Scott Caan. – Defamer
J.J. Abrams is talking to MTV about the Star Trek movie. Woo-hoo! - MTV.com
David Archuleta looks like he’s nine years old in his new video “A Little Too Not Over You.” – Just Jared
A nice gay NYC couple got married at their country house in Connecticut. They met in the Hamptons, have a super cute dog, a great home or two, and matching sweaters. Watch the video. And don’t hate them. You'll meet the right guy someday. Of course you will... – NY Times
 Tom Ford has some advice for gays: "Sleep with a woman for once, why don’t ya?" - Queerty
Javier Bardem sucks on a stogie in L’Uomo Vogue. This came yesterday, but I still love it! – Towleroad
Next Magazine is serving up its 2009 Calendar in this week’s issue. It features NYC bartenders in their undies. Cheers! – Next
Hugh Jackman to host the Oscars? Must he wear clothes??! – Gawker
Feeling chipper and full of holiday spirit? Not for long! Here’s a roundup of the saddest Xmas tunes—ever! “Please Daddy Don’t Get Drunk This Christmas” is only #9. Ouch! – EW.com
And as if you hadn’t heard, Liza’s on Broadway. And you really oughtta go. - AfterElton
Finally, let’s all have a moment of silence and serve up some leopard-print bikini-clad homage: Bettie Page has died. – AfterEllen And finally, here's sort of a holiday song... It's Miss Piggy and Rudolph Nureyev - really! - getting frisky in a steam room. Ah-maz-ing!!!!! Happy Weekend!
 Last night, as he’s done before, Rufus Wainwright brought his family—plus a slew of starry guests—to Carnegie Hall for what seems to be now a biennial holiday concert known as The McGarrigle Christmas Hour.
Sister Martha, Mom Kate McGarrigle and aunt Anna McGarrigle and her kids joined in. As did longtime Wainwright collaborator Teddy Thompson, and other pals like Justin Bond (of Kiki & Herb), Emmylou Harris, Laurie Anderson, Jimmy Fallon, Lou Reed (as a sort of Grinch/Scrooge character) and a few more.
Rufus has been busy week. He and mom Kate made Xmas cookies with Martha Stewart on Tuesday. Watch him screw up the cookie-making process, and tell Martha about his new opera (debuting in Manchester in July)! And check out the entire family in ski sweaters on Martha, too.
Also, Rufus recently talked to Rolling Stone about other new work and being stalked by Amy Winehouse.
Dish on last night’s show comes after the jump.
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I feel a little ridiculous reporting Britney Spears has been everywhere this weekend: really, when has Britney not been everywhere? But if you've tuned to MTV or to your list of European awards shows, you've probably seen plenty of our girl... working... and looking amazing... and performing like she used to! Rejoice, fellow Britney fans! (I can't embed the video, but I highly recommend the "Womanizer" performance on Star Academy in France.)
And over our way, the tell-all documentary, Britney: For The Record, aired last night on LOGO and MTV, and - even though you can't really trust such a mega-fan - the film was really well-done and offered authentic looks into Brit's bizarre, sometimes-amazing, sometimes-awful day-to-day.
But some sad news for gay Brits: After our girl performed for Simon Cowell on The X Factor, Britney made an impromptu pit stop at club G-A-Y. Needless to say - and even with only a 10-minute warning - the gays mobbed the club, and Brit holed up in VIP and never went on stage. Oh, but get over it: Brit did have her birthday cake amongst her gay fans. That's pretty special, right?
Awww... more pictures of sad London gays after the jump.
Continue reading "Thankful for Britney! Awesome Performances, For The Record - Oh, But Those Poor London G-A-Ys" »
Well, I guess Katy Perry hosting answers that question. Yes, fauxmosexual Katy helmed this year's MTV Europe Music Awards in Liverpool, and she supposedly "wet herself, Fergie-style!" when she found out about the gig. I posted some choice pictures and performances after the jump. (Let's
just say Katy straddling a giant cherry chapstick isn't the weirdest
thing she did.)
Overall, there were some totally cool performances from the likes of Ms. Perry, Duffy, Kanye West & Estelle, Beyonce, The Killers and The Ting Tings - all of which you can watch online.
'You don't care how it hurts,' B! Watch the performance - that metal hand can turn into a giant laser cannon!
Continue reading "So ... What Was Going on at The MTV Europe Awards?" »
Wow ... what a wacky evening: Not only was Madonna's Sticky & Sweet concert in L.A. last night 3 hours late due to technical difficulties, both Justin Timberlake (for "4 Minutes") and Brit Brit (for "Human Nature" ...?) joined Madge on her malfunctioning stage. It looks like Britney's still tentatively doing well, and she even greeted Madonna's audience with an affectionate, "It's Britney, bitch." But alas, some slight disappointments: Brit and J.T. were never onstage together, and Brit and Madonna only kissed on the hand. Aww...
Madge made time for a political statement, of course: With President-elect Obama on the screen behind her, Madonna lamented, "I am sorry we did not win Proposition 8. If we can have an African-American in the White House, we can have gay marriage."
Plenty more pictures after the jump...
Continue reading "Britney Did Get on Stage With Madonna, Y'all! And Madge is Not Happy About Prop 8..." »
P!nk said while she thinks Katy Perry is "f*cking awesome," she's more on the fence about Katy's material: “I thought 'I Kissed a Girl' was trivializing being gay. I've been speaking to my gay girlfriends about it, and they're kinda put off by it.” - StarPulse
Meanwhile, on the MTV Europe Music Awards red carpet, Katy Perry’s boobs have ... eyes? ... and her purse is a cupcake! - Getty
Patrick Dempsey laid on the sarcasm for Ellen when she asked him about Grey’s Anatomy's recent de-gaying. – Defamer
Somehow I doubt this, Ryan Seacrest - but some good authority has it both Brit Brit and J.T. will join Madonna onstage at her show in L.A. this week. – MTV.com
-- snicks from AfterElton.com
Gay fave Hugh Jackman has made some ... interesting career choices, some of which turn out to be triumphant (The Boy from Oz), and some less so (Viva Laughlin). However, one of his possible upcoming projects takes the cake when it comes to sheer "HUH?"-ness.
Catherine Zeta-Jones may return to the genre that brought her the most acclaim in a new big-screen musical (her first, Chicago, won her the Oscar) based on the life of Cleopatra, to be directed by the eclectic Steven Soderbergh:
"For his next directing effort, Steven Soderbergh is plotting a 3-D live-action rock ’n’ roll musical about Cleopatra. He is courting Catherine Zeta-Jones to play the Egyptian queen and Hugh Jackman to play her lover, Marc Antony."
Continue reading "Well Smack My Asp! Hugh Jackman May Star in New Musical About ... Cleopatra?" »
Marty Thomas (Photo: JK Photography)
-- Alonso Duralde from AfterElton.com
Gays love musicals, the popular logic goes, so this was probably inevitable: A new queer indie film called The Big Gay Musical goes before the cameras today in New York City.
According to a press release, the film will boast dozens of Broadway veterans, including Liz McCartney (Taboo, South Pacific), Jim Newman (Curtains, Minnelli on Minnelli), current Mr. Broadway Marty Thomas (Xanadu), Andre Ward (Xanadu), Joey Dudding (A Chorus Line, La Cage aux Folles, Xanadu, Wicked, The Secret Garden), as well as Trick co-star Steve Hayes.
Continue reading "The Big Gay Musical Starts Shooting Today" »
 All photos courtesy of Kevin Tachman
By now the secret's out about the Scissor Sister's unannounced concerts in New York city this week. (Click here for our blog coverage of Monday's show - why hello, Anderson Cooper! - when the SS went as "Queef Latina.")
And now we have some lovely photos of Jake Shears and Ana Matronic rocking out and sweating up the stage - this time as "Debbie's Hairy" - Tuesday night at Mercury. Looks like quite a show, kiddies!
Lots more photos - after the jump!
Continue reading "Scissor Sisters, er, "Debbie's Hairy" Mercury Lounge Concert Shots" »
-- by NNN.com contributor Robert Levy
On an unseasonably sultry Monday night in New York, up-and-coming rockers Queef Latina made their debut at Mercury Lounge. Consisting of former members of Bridget Jones's Diarrhea, Portion Control, and Megapussi, the electro-country-funk-rock-soul band played an inspired set that really bodes well for their future... Fingers crossed they make it big someday!
Oh, who are we kidding? We're actually talking about local heroes Scissor Sisters, appearing in the latest of their increasingly legendary series of pseudonymous secret shows (see previous alter ego band names from years past above; tonight they're back at Mercury Lounge as Debbie's Hairy). For those fortunate to attend last night's gig (including, of course, No. 1 Sister Anderson Cooper), the band took to the stage following opener Amanda Lepore (naked! and featuring Cazwell!) and proceeded to rip through a full two-hour set of brand-new songs (11 of them!), covers of Roxy Music and Buffy Sainte-Marie, and a few old faves such as "Laura" and "Tits on the Radio" to help keep the faith. They were, in a word, divine.
Continue reading "Scissor Sisters Stage Secret NYC Concert ... as "Queef Latina"?" »
Playing the ponies
Almanzo (Kevin Massey) shows off his horse power.
Photo © Michal Daniel, 2008
-- by NNN guest writer & LOGOonline ad sales producer Eric Walter
What town but Minneapolis could host the world premiere of a musical adaptation of "Little House on the Prairie"? Minnesota is obsessed with the prairie, and Minneapolis loves its theater. (It boasts more theater seats per capita than any other city outside of Manhattan.) Michael Landon would be proud.
The musical is a conflation of the more notable events of the adolescence of Laura Ingalls Wilder taken from the series of Little House books she wrote. The Ingalls family is on the move again, this time out west to a tiny settlement in Dakota Territory, in search of a homesteader claim from Uncle Sam.
The show's overture begins with an Indian drumbeat, which introduces an American identity crisis that underlies everything about this show: These pioneers are essentially intruders on land that is not theirs. Do we praise them for their adventurous wanderlust — or do we despair over the spoiled prairie?
Continue reading "Half-Pint Lives! Little House on the Prairie — The Musical!" »
 Liz Taylor hits The Abbey in L.A. Again! - People
Is Adele’s song “Chasing Pavements” too gay for U.S. airplay? Huh? Something can be too gay? -- Queerty
Steven Soderbergh is gonna make a biopic about Liberace? Yay! Sequins! Candlelabras! But it’ll star Michael Douglas as the icon. Er... Huh? – Page Six
Marc Jacobs and his strapping man-pony got kissy at Pastis in NYC this morning. Um, you guys gonna finish those fries? – BauerGriffin
A new Antony and the Johnsons song. Brought to you by Prada!!! Er, this is runway music? – Stereogum
VH1 has been hyping the crap out of their new Sharon-Osbourne hosted redux of Charm School, featuring the Rock of Love slags. Is it worth watching without Mo'Nique? Decide for yourself. – VH1 Blog
Good pre-Broadway word on the 9 to 5 musical!!! Yay! As if we ever doubted Dolly... – PopBytes
Finally, some hot new DJ Earworm mash-ups for your weekend, via Arjan. Want some Lady Gaga with your Mary J., New Order and Queen? Yes you do! – Arjanwrites
-- Ingrid Diaz from AfterEllen.com
I’m fairly certain that my neighbors reached for the phone to call the emergency equivalent of 911 over here in France when they heard my joyful shrieking (which to them may have sounded more like a mutated cat giving birth to elephants.) I couldn't help it when I received the news that a film version of the Wicked musical was in the works. Just the other day I was telling my girlfriend that the Wicked movie was long overdue, and now it turns out that my prayers have been answered (that, or Hollywood has bugged my apartment).
Universal Studios has teamed up with producers Marc Platt (Silence of the Lambs) and Stephen Schwartz to bring the Broadway hit to the silver screen (though it sounds like production is still in the very early stages.) Universal’s Donna Langley implied that the film is mainly in talks at the moment, and being that Platt is currently busy with the film Nine, it sounds like it will be some time before we get any concrete details about the Wicked movie.
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I lucked out and got a couple of tickets to see George Michael's 25 LIVE show Monday night - part of his first U.S. tour in 17 years - and it turns out Georgie can still make a few Americans crowds go wild.
Between numbers George thanked the loyals, dis-ed some record labels and asked if we gays could get married yet - adding that our government gives cool Americans a bad name. But of course by the end, we impatient Americans were chanting 'FREEDOM!' until George caved and performed "Freedom 90!" for his second encore in a flashy, rainbow scream-fest. But he also treated straight guys to Dita Von Teese in pasties on the big screen during his "Feeling Good" cover, so everybody wins.
 More concert pics after the jump!
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Danity Kane's tranniest of the tranny Aubrey O’Day will play Amber Von Tussle in Hairspray on Broadway. – People
Adrien Brody still manages to look hot in a cheesy, mesh tank top. Wait - a triangle necklace too? – Just Jared
Umm ... did someone forget to trim the forest before the DSquared2 fashion show? - Towleroad
MTV's TRL couldn't handle Jason Bateman calling Charlize Theron "a dirty bitch." - ONTD
Whose terrifying idea over at TV Guide was it to put these two together? – Faded Youth
It looks like Samantha Ronson has officially tamed Lindsay Lohan. And here I was thinking Sam planted that coke on poor Linds. – NY Post
-- StuntDouble from AfterEllen.com
The most a girl could ever hope for in life is to be a professional athlete, or a pirate, or a Jane Austen heroine, or the lead in a Broadway musical. Last week reported that Keira Knightley is in talks to star in a remake of My Fair Lady, so I guess that makes her the luckiest girl in the world.
To wit:
Continue reading "Keira Knightley: Quite Possibly a Fair Lady" »
They totally bonded over Lance penis! Apparently, two Lance Bass exes Pedro Andrade and Ben Thigpen are maybe-dating. Please be more incestuous. - Towleroad
Katy Perry's oft gay-themed debut album – think tracks "Ur So Gay" and "I Kissed a Girl" – faces the critics after her big appearance on TRL. - Idolator
Because that 18-year-old needed more money, Emma Watson signed a $6 million deal to be the new face of Chanel. I'm glad Keira Knightley's gone, but I'm still stuck on that crotch-shot... - Defamer
These Tony winners sure look happy! Particularly Laura Bell Bundy and In The Heights creator and big winner, Lin-Manuel Miranda. - Gawker
American Apparel is now selling marked-up vibrators in its online store. Trendy! - Radar
Madonna will supposedly work with her In Bed director on a follow-up doc for her 50th birthday. - ONTD
The New York City Opera commissioned a Brokeback Mountain opera for spring 2013. - Towleroad
And Andrew Lloyd Webber wants a sequel called Phantom: Once Upon Another Time. Um, really? Well, holding onto he-could-do-whatever-he-wanted hot Gerard Butler for the leading role is certainly the right idea. – Just Jared
Ah, Lee Pace pictures: always welcome. To play Calpernia Addams in Soldier's Girl, Lee told Venice magazine he dropped a ton of weight, tapped into "a raw nerve" and went to drag shows for research. - ONTD
Charlize Theron interviews are consistently foul-mouthed and fantastic: She didn't get the memo, so she doesn't give a f*ck. – Hollywood Rag
-- Brian Juergens from AfterElton.com
Yes, the Little Gay Rollerskating Musical That Could, Broadway's insanely camp Xanadu musical, has secured all of its leads through January of aught nine. Out lead Cheyenne Jackson, impossibly Newton-Johnny Kerry Butler, Tony Roberts, and bookend divas Mary Testa and Jackie Hoffman have all renewed their contracts through next year.
Continue reading "Don't Put Away Your Skates Just Yet: Xanadu Leads Sign on Through 2009" »
Sometimes I think ... what I need ... is a Madonna intervention...I wasn't even there, and I'm giddy from last night's 32-minute Manhattan concert!
The show, which featured mostly Hard Candy songs, crammed 2,200 Madge-freaks into NYC's Roseland ball room; the line formed 60 hours before the show. OK, I guess those gays need an intervention before I do.
Anyway, you basically have to watch the concert on MSN just for Madonna's performance. Sheeeeee's 50! 50-years-old, ladies and gentlemen!
Well, almost - but she's still hot as all hell when she grinds up on Justin, and her dancing is insane! -sigh- Oh, to have been there ... Well, watch some Madonna music videos after the jump to ease the pain and longing.
And check out more pictures from the concert via Faded Youth.
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The top six contestants with Andrew Lloyd ... Webber Photo credit: Michael Becker/FOX
-- carolinagrrrl from AfterEllen.com
We're halfway through the finals on American Idol, and yet I feel as though we've been watching these "singers" for months. Oh, wait. We have been. (It's amazing how much they can stretch out these seasons!)
On our first Kristy Lee–free (thank goodness!) night, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber was the mentor, and his songs were the theme.
Kicking it off in the opening time slot was Syesha Mercado, and she looked absolutely stunning.
Continue reading "The Top Six "Idols" Sing Show Tunes" »
Oh, Chrissy - no need to cover up! Yes, any picture of Chris Crocker is news-worthy. - Dlisted
I'm just enjoyin' Channing Tatum's big gun for his role in the upcoming G.I. Joe movie. Thinking of my childhood, where is Thundercats? - Towleroad
Mya's vlogging her road to Chicago's Velma Kelly on Broadway; her run begins May 12 in NYC. I love her – and she can really sing! – so I'm pretending that little reality show that got canceled after one day just - umm - didn't happen. – Broadway.com
Hard Candy is almost upon us, and Madonna will make $165,000 (?!) a minute if she plays a concert in Dubai in November. Sticky and sweet... - Dlisted
In case you missed our Step & It Up recap vlog, you can still catch John Polly chatting up Mario Lopez, the newest member of Broadways's A Chorus Line, right here!
We snagged him at rehearsal to talk about that Nip/Tuck ass shot, being an object of gay lust worldwide, Liz Berkley and Showgirls ... and Miss Teen South Carolina! Oh ... and about A Chorus Line too. We've even got Mario dancing onstage!
And you'll get to hear Mario's bedroom-sexy whisper. ...Or maybe that's just what I heard.
We really crammed it in this time! First off, John and Colin recap Episode 2 of Bravo's Step It Up & Dance - we're a little upset about that elimination - then Colin plays segments from his interview with the lovely, and booted-off, gay, James.
And then! John runs over to A Chorus Line rehearsals to interview newly-cast Mario Lopez ... and Mario touches him!
It's a Saved by the Bell reunion! ... kind of.
The Hills starts up again tonight, and The New York Times called Heidi Montag a feminist icon and Whitney Port a Shakespearean mute. So much credit! - NY Times
And Audrina: Ix-nay on the someone-cast-you-as-Lauren's-friend-ay. - Radar
Idol reject and stripper David Hernandez might be auditioning for Rent/makes lame jokes. - Towleroad
Yikes! Call Miss Jay for protection! Tyra Banks' stalker - who's out on bail - showed up to her studio with a duffel bag of Ty-Ty magazine clips and notes about trying to contact her. - NY Post
OK, TMZ, I'll give you the "bi, bi, bi" is brilliant. ...And couldn't Chace Crawford feed the rumors a little? Ride the gay-character buzz for Gossip Girl's sake! - TMZ
George Michael announced a 20-concert tour for the U.S. in support of his new greatest hits album. - Towleroad
-- Brian Juergens from AfterElton.com
In his Broadway Matinee column, Post writer Michael Riedel mentions that Burt Bacharach's musical romp Promises, Promises is heading to workshop for a possible return to Broadway. He then mentions that Will & Grace star Sean Hayes will be playing the romantic lead opposite Anne Hathaway, and questions whether Hayes is "virile" enough to pull off a role originated by Jerry Orbach, who could crush buildings with his bare thighs.
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I kinda like Ferras’ debut album cover … especially compared to the recent string of awfulness from Madonna-Ashlee-Britney. - Towleroad
Did Jodie Foster just take back her “soft coming out”? ...She's not in love? - Just Jared
Rosie O’Donnell supported her ... "people?" and took this totally hetero shot with Clay Aiken at Spamalot in NYC. - Page Six
Interview magazine’s new editor Christopher Bollen is a hot “gay fashion template.” – Gawker
GLAAD-approved gossip mag US Weekly is running a favorite couple poll – and TR Knight’s right behind Rihanna for first. - Queerty
They’ve got to stop messing with my Pussycat Dolls ... I can't take it anymore. Thank god that Audrina from The Hills thing was a rumor. - USmagazine
Queer as a clockwork orange.
It seems like only yesterday that Margaret Cho shimmied our diaphragms into hiccup-inducing, hysterical laughter with her off-Broadway, burlesque-style variety show, The Sensuous Woman. Yet already, the award-winning comedian and laser beam of queer conscience is returning to classic stand-up form with Beautiful, a new one-woman stage assault on the perverse politics of body image, along with other provocative, Cho-centric topics.
Catch a NewNowNext chat with Margaret Cho after the jump!
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Yes, performers/hosts Cyndi Lauper, Rosie O'Donnell and Carson Kressley are all insanely excited for True Colors 2008! Last year's concert tour was a total success, so we're all more than ready for Round 2 - which kicks off Pride Month on May 31. Logo is once again sponsoring the tour, a partnership with the HRC, and the rotating lineup will take on 24 cities across the country.
But the big question, Who's playing where? And who's playing?? Major acts include Wanda Sykes, Tegan and Sara, Regina Spektor, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Joan Armatrading, Indigo Girls, Nona Hendryx, Deborah Cox and The Cliks.
Even more True Colors buzz after the jump!
Continue reading "True Colors 2008 Concert Tour Has a Fierce, Gay-Loving Lineup!" »
Exactly what Mya's been doing lately other than gay events around NYC has been a big mystery to me. Her fourth album, Liberation, should be here by now; I hope it doesn't catch Nicole Scherzinger Syndrome. But some good news: Despite Mya putting a hold on her album, she'll be joining the Broadway cast of Chicago as Velma Kelly from May 12 through July 13!
But what about that album? And that Win a Date with Mya contest? After the jump...
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Idina Menzel - the girl from Rent and Wicked who's married to Taye Diggs - has been trying to break into pop music for a while now: She came out with albums Still I Can't Keep Still in 1998 and Here in 2004. Whoops!
Here's the video for "Brave" from her new album, I Stand. Can she stop being so inspirational? She's singing about the exact same bull sh*t she did in "Defying Gravity;" gays love "Defying Gravity," though. Idina feels a little rough up-close-and-personal, but, yeah, she can certainly sing.
Watch the "Brave" video after the jump...
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