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History of gay culture to peak in July

It’s true, it’s true! Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch are going into A Little Night Music! The iconic pair will open in the show on Broadway on July 13. Note: autoplaying video and after the jump! Read more »

Ferry tale

oceansThirteenOne of parterre box’s oldest friends and earliest admirers, Der Schmuck der Madonna, emerges from his regal exile momentarily to plug what sounds like a memorable way to spend part of Memorial Day weekend:   Read more »

Need you ask? Need you tell?

billy-budd“Exciting! Indomitable! Alluring! Rigid! Enormous! Pulsing! Penetrating! Riveting! The public shame of being flogged! Aching tenderness!” [NYT]

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They had CVs then

La Cieca has decided she is going insert the the following line into her official biography (names and pronouns varied as necessary):  Read more »

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Tout gai!

New York City Opera's latest mailing invites the gays to "Learn to French!" Read more »

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Now just a simple little frock

Multiple-threat Isaac Mizrahi, like everyone else it seems, really wants to direct; and direct he shall for Opera Theater of St. Louis this summer, helming A Little Night Music. And designing the sets and costumes too. [Playbill]

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Gayer than…?

What? Springtime? Adam Lambert? An Ungaro Spring frock (pictured)? Or that old standby, "gayer than eight guys fucking nine guys?" (Not pictured, alas) Yes, all those things are gay, and some are even gay gay gay gay gay. But nothing is or ever was as gay as this: Read more »

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Les feux d’artifice s’approchent

According to the always reliable Zachary Woolfe, among the beans spilled at the NYCO "Koch" Gala last night was the strong suggestion (from no less than Rufus Wainwright himself) that a production of Prima Donna is planned for an upcoming George Steel-planned season. [New York Observer]