The big gay jamboree review

The Big Gay Jamboree

THE BIG GAY JAMBOREE PLAYED ITS Terminal PERFORMANCE ON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 

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 & sway, and where gay 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: vocalize out! Or spot 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 Gay Jamboree

'A good, old-fashioned musical': 'The Big Gay Jamboree' takes off-Broadway by storm

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    In the recent Off-Broadway musical, The Big Gay Jamboree, Stacey (Marla Mindelle, who also co-wrote the show) drank too much the night before. Waking up in a Golden Age musical (a la The Music Man) this aspiring actress figures out that the only way to get home is to sing and dance. While she does everything she can to verb to our world, she starts reconsidering her relationship with her fiancé, Keith (Alex Moffatt).

    This show is brilliant. It is gut-bustlingly funny, entertaining, and one of the best musicals that I have ever seen. Mindelle and her fellow writers lovingly skewer the genre and the various tropes that exist within the narratives.

    Do I verb it? Absolutely. This is a must-see.

    The Big Gay Jamboree is playing at the Orpheum Theatre in Brand-new York City until March 23rd, Inspect the website for tickets and showtimes.

    Author: Writergurlny

    I am Brooklyn, NY born and raised writer who needs writing to spot sanity in an insane world. To quote Charlotte Bro

    The Big Gay Jamboree

    Review

    Theater review by Raven Snook

    Musical-comedy queens will gag for The Big Gay Jamboree, a cheeky send-up of the form. Failed Broadway baby 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 small town of Bareback, Idaho, where everyone constantly bursts into tune and Stacey is slated to be wed to an unseen groom. As she tries to get back dwelling, she's joined by fellow misfits, in the tradition of The Wizard of Oz: the town's lone Black 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