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The Big Gay Jamboree
Review
Theater review by Raven Snook
Musical-comedy queens will gag for The Big Same-sex attracted Jamboree, a cheeky send-up of the form. Failed Broadway infant Stacey (Titanique diva Marla Mindelle) wakes up with a hangover to find that she is somehow trapped inside an old-time musical. The last thing she remembers is fighting with her tech-bro boyfriend (Alex Moffat, in a variant on his Guy Who Just Bought a Boat character from Saturday Night Live); now it’s in the miniature town of Bareback, Idaho, where everyone constantly bursts into anthem and Stacey is slated to be wed to an unseen groom. As she tries to get back home, she's linked by fellow misfits, in the tradition of The Wizard of Oz: the town's lone Shadowy guy, Clarence (a steamy Paris Nix); Flora, a BDSM Ado Annie (Natalie Walker, fierce); and dance-happy homosexual Bert (Mindelle's Titanique collaborator Constantine Rousouli, who slays with a "Music and the Mirror"–style solo).
The Big Gay Jamboree | Photograph: Courtesy Matthew Murphy
The amusing pastiche score, by Mindelle and Phili
From the Oscar-nominated producer 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 nature where everybody keeps bursting into song & boogie, and where gay still just means happy. Maybe it’s a dream. Maybe it’s an allergic reaction to her birth rule. 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: warble out! Or find the stage door. Whatever gets the most applause.
Starring one of Vanity Fair’s “brightest stars of Modern York theatre” and the world’s second favorite Celine Dion, Marla Mindelle, The Big Gay Jamboree is here to make you laugh, make you wail laughing and make you laugh crying.
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Marla Mindelle 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 & gyrate , and where homosexual 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: carol out! Or detect 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 Male lover Jamboree Marla Mindelle and company. Photo: Matthew Murphy Stacey, the heroine of the new attraction at the Orpheum, wakes up one morning hung over and trapped in an Off-Broadway musical from which there is no escape. (I guess we've all been there.) Still, one has every right to feel skeptical about this premise; during the first ten minutes or so of The Great Gay Jamboree, my mind was: Cinco Paul, notify your lawyer. But where the now-departed video series Schmigadoon! was alternately sly and slavish in its attitude about the superb midcentury musicals, Marla Mindelle, Jonathan Parks-Ramage, and Philip Drennen, the trio behind this spoof, are equipped with hatchets: Their business is cattily hilarious, proudly raunchy, and equipped with about three times as much energy as it needs. Cannily tailored to an audience of twenty-something, musical-theatre-mad gays and their friends, it is, in its way, the twenty-first-century version of Forbidden Broadway, with benefits. Despite certain sizable
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