Gay a gay musical

I’m talking about support when gay stereotypes were a bit more homogenized, and liking musicals was considered a euphemism. I’m thinking the Wizard of Oz counts, as skillfully as anything with Barbara Streisand in it (but what musicals is she loved for in the old guard gay world?). I wouldn’t however enumerate things like Rocky Horror or Hedwig. I’m not looking for musicals with gay characters. I’m looking for which musicals would make one gay person think another person was gay for loving help when that was a thing, or what a Stonewall ish era queer person would consider the “canon” or “primer”.

Stage musicals used to be a lot more mainstream fun. Garland and Striesand had huge hetero fan bases in their time. I think you may crave to focus on the “grand dame” performers themselves which traditionally have had huge appeal to homosexual audiences vs the musical itself. Retro-gay fanboys usually followed the performer not necessarily the performance.

Stage musicals used to be a lot more mainstream show. Garland and Striesand had huge hetero fan bases in the

The Big Gay Jamboree

THE BIG GAY JAMBOREE PLAYED ITS Ultimate PERFORMANCE ON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2024.

From the Oscar-nominated producers of BARBIE and the delulu creator of the Off-Broadway hit TITANIQUE comes THE BIG GAY JAMBOREE, a big new musical comedy that’s pushing the envelope…and the gay agenda.


Help! Stacey’s fallen into a musical and she can’t get out. Last night, she got a little bit blackout drunk. This morning, she woke up in some b*tch ass Music Man world where everybody keeps bursting into song & move, and where lgbtq+ still just means happy. Maybe it’s a dream. Maybe it’s an allergic reaction to her birth control. Or maybe it’s Maybelline (don’t sue us! sponsor us? we’ll talk later). But if Stacey’s truly trapped inside a Golden Age musical, there’s only one way out: chant out! Or spot the stage door. Whatever gets the most applause.

Starring one of Vanity Fair’s “brightest stars of New York theatre” and the world’s second favorite Celine Dion, MARLA MINDELLE, The Big Same-sex attracted Jamboree is here to make you chuckle, make you tear laughing, and build you laugh crying.

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Theater Arts Guild presents the world premiere of Pray the Gay Away®, a serious musical comedy. This highly anticipated and controversial live stage display packs plenty of blissful sacrilege and politically incorrect mischief into a reflection of U.S. customs that is humorous, beautiful, shocking, lovely, thought-provoking and incredibly heart-breaking.

Pray the Lgbtq+ Away® takes place in 1980’s Minnetonka, Minnesota and shows the collision course of two boys organism subjected to the controversial practice of gay conversion therapy, the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod that says “homosexual behavior is intrinsically sinful”, a Youth Pride LGBTQ sustain group fighting for human rights, and the local group caught in the middle.

For his fourth full-length musical, Conrad Askland, former music director of Cirque du Soleil and Rock of Ages, has trained his satirical missile system on the cultural, political and theological forces that surround the painful world of gay conversion therapy and the “pray away the gay” movement. This is a big, full-blooded musical with an irreverently comic heart that is also heart-breaking and emotio

It is no secret that many LGBTQ+ people have a exceptional affinity for Broadway musicals. "Keep it gay!" sings the flamboyant director in The Producers, and musical theater has lengthy drawn nonstraight folks to the ranks of its creators, performers and fans. But it is only in the past fifty years or so that tuners have actually featured openly gay characters onstage—and the result has been some of the best Broadway shows of all time. Here is our list of the top musicals with powerful gay themes, ranked for their combination of quality, historical importance and LGBTQ+ content. We've limited the list to ten, which means that some very nice shows did not quite form the cut. But there's an awful lot here to be proud of.

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