As 'The Boys in the Band' arrives on Netflix, MarkHarrisNYC writes that it's time to have another awkward, painful dance with a play that challenges current audiences in some ways they may not be used to
The original 1968 Off Broadway production. Photo: FRIEDMAN-ABELES/ BILLY ROSE THEATRE DIVISION/ THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY On September 30, an invitation to the most famously toxic gay birthday party in the history of New York City will go out once again when Netflix releases its film version of The Boys in the Band.
The show was a hit. Curious audiences kept the play running for more than two years, and in 1970, William Friedkin directed the original cast in a movie version. But by the early 1990s, The Boys in the Band was regarded as an antique that had written its own obit with the caustic line “Show me a happy homosexual and I’ll show you a gay corpse.” It was then that I first heard about the play , and I remember thinking, Thanks, I’ll pass.
At a moment supersaturated with anodyne statements about the importance of representation and of telling our own stories, here’s a piece of work that refuses to fill that prescription comfortably. Viewers unsettled by characters who are not readily identifiable as either heroes or villains, or by writing that resolutely refuses judgment, are unlikely to take well to the play’s lack of reassurances.
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