The Boys In The Band And What's Making Us Happy
October 02, 2020 01:01
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Fifty two years ago, Mart Crowley's The Boys in the Band debuted off-
Broadway. The structure was simple, and not unfamiliar to anyone who'd seen a
play before: Over the course of an evening, characters gather, get drunk and
turn on one another. The groundbreaking difference was that it was a group of
gay men doing all that gathering and drinking and lashing out. Now, a new
Netflix film adapts the recent Tony-winning revival of the play.
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Fifty two years ago, Mart Crowley's The Boys in the Band debuted off-
Broadway. The structure was simple, and not unfamiliar to anyone who'd seen a
play before: Over the course of an evening, characters gather, get drunk and
turn on one another. The groundbreaking difference was that it was a group of
gay men doing all that gathering and drinking and lashing out. Now, a new
Netflix film adapts the recent Tony-winning revival of the play.
