Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterLooks like Broadway is going to be packed with iconic Divas next year, as following hot on the news that Bette Midler will be starring in Hello Dolly, comes the announcement that the Chicago Goodman Theatre’s summer sold-out hit War Paint will be reopening in NY next April. The musical is based on the true … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterChristmas is never complete for us in queerguru’s HQ without the latest volume of Broadway Carols for A Cure album blasting out. For the past 18 years Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has been pairing the casts from famous Broadway musicals with songs that are both classic and new to make the ultimate holiday music CD which they … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterEvery year Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids mounts an annual fundraiser called Gypsy of The Year Competition in which Broadway’s best spread messages of unity, hope and resilience through satire, song and dance. The 28th edition took place December 5 and 6, 2016 and celebrated six weeks of dedicated fundraising from 55 Broadway, Off-Broadway and national … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterTwenty four years after she first starred in the Sunset Boulevard, first in L.A. then on Broadway where she won a Tony Award for her performance as Norma Desmond, Glen Close is back in a new revival of the show. This new production originated in London last year when the English National Opera (ENO) presented … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThis summer one of the most highly anticipated new musicals finally arrives on Broadway.. It’s been 18 years since Baz Luhrmann’s Oscar winning movie MOULIN ROUGE starring Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor set movie screens alight and that no-one could stop talking about. Now its been adapted by 3 Time Oscar Nominee John Logan … Continue reading