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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Mordden, Ethan, 1947- author.     Subjects     Gay theater -- United States -- History.     American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.     Gay men in literature.     Theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Mordden, Ethan, 1947- author.       by title:      Gays on Broadway / E...         MARC Display

Gays on Broadway / Ethan Mordden. by Mordden, Ethan, 1947- author. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023] Subjects Gay theater -- United States -- History.   American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.   Gay men in literature.   Theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century. ISBN:  9780190063108 (hardcover) : 0190063106 hardcover Description:  233 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm Contents:  Introduction: you mussst come over! -- The 1910s and 1920s: Shadowland -- The 1930s: the gays who came to dinner -- The 1940s: the poet of big characters -- The 1950s: the body beautiful -- The 1960s: you shouldn't wear heels when you do chin-ups -- The 1970s: did you go to Oberlin? -- The 1980s: well, yes, actually, yes I have -- The 1990s and 2000s: they're taking over -- The present: Mr. Albee never changes his mind. Requests:  0 Summary:  "This is a chronological review of both the plays and the people that brought the world of homosexuals, bisexuals, transexuals, metrosexuals, and the sexually fluid to the American stage. The plays--which take in a few foreign imports--treat strong gay content (e. g., The Boys in the Band or The Killing of Sister George), or minor gay content (Season In the Sun, The Nervous Set), or even a phrase in passing (as in New Faces of 1956's joke about Rome's piazza Di Spagna, so niche that perhaps fifty people got it during the show's six-month run). I have included as well plays that portray gay through dog whistles (such as Bell, Book and Candle, in which the witches are really gay people) and even plays whose sense of parody or outright camp (such as Little Mary Sunshine or Johnny Guitar) are at least gay-adjacent. As for the people in the book--writers, actors, creatives-- I have included profiles of some who, though gay, had little interest in portraying gay lives--Edward Albee, for example, even as his influence not as a writer about gay but rather as a writer who is gay was extremely broad, so conclusive that he takes pride of place at the end of this volume. These so to say pre-Stonewall eminences--actor-manager Eva Le Gallienne is another one--are as much a part of the chronicle as such overtly gay-in-content writers as Terrence McNally"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Art, Music & Recreation 792.08664 Mo Checked In Add Copy to MyList Pahoa P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 792.08664 Mo Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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