| Musical Theater and Gay Culture | |
| Last Edit: broadwaybacker 10:04 am EDT 08/19/17 | |
| Posted by: broadwaybacker 10:02 am EDT 08/19/17 | |
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| As a straight and aging guy who was raised with a love of musical theater (my grandmother took me to see the original run of South Pacific when I was five and I still have some vague memories of the day) I got to thinking about why and when musical theater became such a "staple" (for lack of a better work) of the gay male community, especially given how back in the Golden Age the themes of so many of the great shows were so hetero/romantic. Today, the term "Theater Queen" is readily embraced by many as I understand it. So I actually began to research the issue and much to my surprise, the precise subject has been written about in a myriad of articles and at least two books. The first is "Place For Us" by D. A. Miller, a literary critic and English professor emeritus at Berkeley, and the other is "Something for the Boys: Musical Theater and Gay Culture" by John A. Clum, professor emeritus of theater studies at Duke. (Miller had a Ph.D from Harvard and Clum has his from Princeton, so these are true academics.) So first I was wondering if any of you are familiar with these books and if they'd be worth reading, and second I was wondering if this might be an interesting topic to discuss. |
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