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or, now that we have one, So is it any good?
Edward Albee hated it.
Larry Kramer denounced its internalized homophobia.
And indeed, itisa play about self-loathing.
Crowley himself confessed as much in the 1995 documentaryThe Celluloid Closet.
Here, by contrast, Murphy and Mantello seem content to be mounting a glamorous case forBoys canonical status.
Here, we have brought it back for you, this time with more TV stars!
And the TV stars are pretty good!
Thanks for the laughs.
Its not the screen stars, though, who are consistently turning in the productions most moving work.
Bernard, forgive me, he begs, after Michael has lambasted Emorys tendency to Uncle Tom his friend.
I wont ever say those things to you again.
Emory and Bernards relationship feels particularly poignant, not to mention painful, in 2018.
And this is where some of the distance happens in the productions unrelenting opulence.
In a way, a production this shiny is always going to be more commemoration than eviscerating reinvestigation.
At one point Bomers Donald enters and jokingly asks Am I stunning?
and a friend told me that in the performance he saw, a woman behind him screamed, Yes!
Perhaps this is all to the good.
