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| re: Spacey as Michael in THE BOYS IN THE BAND | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 04:10 pm EDT 07/17/18 | |
| In reply to: Spacey as Michael in THE BOYS IN THE BAND - jurinac 01:02 pm EDT 07/17/18 | |
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| I love all of your casting ideas, but I think the idea of Harvey Fierstein as Harold (back in the day) is a really great one. He could have worked against his usual warm and fuzzy, lovable public personality and might have been brilliant in the role for that reason. P.S. I saw Jm (or Jim) J. Bullock in WHEN PIGS FLY in L.A., and he was terrific onstage, so casting him as Emory back in the day sounds to me like another great idea. |
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| re: Spacey as Michael in THE BOYS IN THE BAND | |
| Posted by: BruceinIthaca 07:33 pm EDT 07/18/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Spacey as Michael in THE BOYS IN THE BAND - Michael_Portantiere 04:10 pm EDT 07/17/18 | |
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| Now for me, this sounds like perfect casting if the show were being done at Mr. Burt Reynolds' dinner theater! I also think Fierstein would have been a disaster in the role. In everything I have seen him in, he not only asks to be loved, he demands it, come hell or high water. I think his insistence on it ruined the book for Catered Affair and his performance threw what could have been a nice, small show totally out of balance. I am a gay man, close enough to Fierstein's age, to have had some of the experiences of invisibility he was trying to address in that show, but it was so anachronistic--for better or for worse (and, I agree, almost always for worse), the uncle would have been expected to bring a female date to the wedding or might have been allowed to bring his "buddy," as long as they didn't insist on being recognized as the "same as" a married heterosexual couple. His anger felt post-Stonewall and simply served Fierstein's contemporary attitudes--which I share, but thought took us out of the period of the show. He would have insisted on hugging Michael at the end. |
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