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Angela Lansbury, and Bea Arthur, during rehearsals for the original Broadway production of Mame. New York, 1966.
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Angela Lansbury, and Bea Arthur, during rehearsals for the original Broadway production of Mame. New York, 1966.
Danny Lockin in Hello, Dolly! (1969) Director: Gene Kelly
ANGELA LANSBURY - PHOTO FROM THE 1966 BROADWAY MUSICAL - MAME
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On this day in queer history: 21 August 1980
The musical La Cage Aux Folles opened on Broadway to rave reviews and a record-breaking $4 million in advance ticket sales.
With a book by Harvey Fierstein and music & lyrics by Jerry Herman, La Cage brought a revolutionary story to the Broadway stage: a romantic comedy about two men in love—Georges, the nightclub manager, and Albin, his star performer—navigating love, family, and fabulousness inside a drag cabaret.
At a time when queer lives were too often erased or caricatured, La Cage delivered something radical: tenderness, visibility, and joy. Its show-stopping anthem “I Am What I Am” became more than a Broadway number—it became a rallying cry for LGBTQ+ pride around the world.
The musical’s success proved that queer stories could be commercial hits, paving the way for future generations of queer theater and representation.
A love story. A family story. A drag story. And above all, a queer story that changed Broadway forever.
A theatre company that promises a "modern, innovative" approach to the works of Jerry Herman where they do a season featuring all of his shows performed exactly as written, but each one has a new scene after the bows where Jerry Herman approaches the leading lady and asks her to join the Avengers Initiative, culminating in a performance of Jerry's Girls: Infinity Wars (it's just Jerry's Girls).
BROADWAY DIVAS SUPERLATIVES: Sing, Sing, Sing
Your favorite stage rendition of "Before the Parade Passes By," from Hello, Dolly!
Carol Channing (1964, 1978, 1995)
Pearl Baily (1975)
Bette Midler (2017)
Donna Murphy (2017)
Bernadette Peters (2018)
Betty Buckley (2018)
Carolee Carmello (2018)
OP, you forgot... (put it in the tags)
And no, Babs does not count. That was the movie, and she was too damn young for it anyway.
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