musical
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Everybody’s Talking About Jaime : the film of the hit queer stage musical
It’s almost impossible to talk about the glorious uplifting stage musical Everybody’s Talking About Jaime without thinking that the show is like Billy Elliot being grown up and gay . Steeped in very similar references, it is the story of a boy living in blue collar Northern England who against all odds just wants…
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Hearts Beat Loud
Frank (Nick Offerman) is a charming aging Brooklyn hippie has just two ambitions left in life, One is to hang on to the failing record store that he has owned in Red Hook for the past 17 tears, and the second is to make music with his freshman medical student Sam (Kiersey Clemons) who doesn’t quite share his enthusiasm. This…
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Still Waiting In The Wings
How can we put this nicely? Still Waiting In The Wings is one of those sequels that should never have been made. We may be very slightly to blame as in 2014 we finished our review of the original Waiting In The Wings with “It’s funny, cute, silly and highly enjoyable with a high-octane energy…
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Falsettos : Live From Lincoln Center on PBS
Openly gay composer and lyricist William Finn’s stunning Tony Award winning show Falsettos that he wrote with James Lapine is actually made up of the 2nd two parts of a musical trilogy about one man’s journey that started out so full of hope. It’s the story of Marvin who quits his wife and young son…
