| In the 80s, the Whizzer character was a certain type of Manhattan man. He always seemed coolly detached, classy, and aggressively masculine, perhaps in cliche terms. The jock thing, the snob attitude. Rannells is gifted, cute, and a wonderful triple threat. But that 80s almost hyper masculine NYC jock thing -- it's not really what he presents. This may have been a calculated attempt to unlock the character, to move away from that sort of niche type. I thought it interesting that Borle presented as straight, and Rannells a very comfortable gay man. It made the Borle Marvin coming out via this relationship very different than than the way it felt with Bogardus as Whizzer. Rupert and Bogardus were almost the reverse of what we saw last night. |
