Tag: musical
Everybody’s TalkIng About Jaime : an exuberant queer Brit musical that everybody will love to talk about
Everybody will really be talking about Jaime the moment they see this feel-good queer coming-of-age movie that is such an excellent adaption of the hit West End Musical. It’s an exuberant gay fairy tale of a 16-year-old teenager from a blue-collar northern British town who overcomes prejudice, beats the bullies, and steps out of…
Queerguru reviews BOULEVARD: A HOLLYWOOD STORY
Over the past few years, Emmy Award-winning producer and director Jeffrey Schwarz has carved out quite a niche as the leading exponent of creating such excellent documentaries of leading queer icons. So far he has told us the stories of Vito Russo, Tab Hunter, Allen Carr, Jack Wrangler, and the fabulous Divine. However, this…
Has Andrew LLoyd Webber finally come out of the (musical) closet?
No the picture above is not taken from some gay porn movie, but is actually a production shot taken of Sir Andrew Lloyd Weber’s new musical. There are no prizes for guessing its name, simply because that would prove too difficult for most of us. This is the new Cinderella. Not the squeaky clean version…
Armistead Maupin’s Tales of The City Musical : now streaming online
Armistead Maupin’s beloved Tales Of The City started out as a newspaper column over 40 years ago. They morphed into 9 novels, two television mini-series, and then in 2011 into a musical. With a score by Jake Shears (the lead singer of Scissor Sisters, and John “JJ” Garden, and book by Tony Award winner…
In The Heights : the feel good Block Party of the Summer
If there is one thing we all need this summer it is an exhilarating feel-good movie to lift our spirits and take us out of our post-Covid doom. Lin Manuel-Miranda’s “In the Heights” is just that and so much more. Director Jon M Chu (Crazy Rich Asians) gives us this exuberant block party in…
