musicals

From the classics like West Side Story and Rent to recent Broadway hits like Avenue Q and Hollywood features such as Nine, we know how much homos LOVE musicals!

As fabulous as big productions are, there are a few films in the gay indie world that really capture hearts and minds alike. These films touch on topics like finding Mr. Right in The Big Gay Musical by veteran queer filmmaker Casper Andreas or just focus on pure comedic bliss in the wild, scantily-clad Naked Boys Singing! A fantastic addition to this genre is the critically-acclaimed sparkling love letter to San Francisco Fruit Fly. It's been playing the festival circuit for a year or so and is now having a mini theatrical in San Franciso on Aug. 11th & 12th and one-week run in New York on Sept. 24th! So when talented filmmaker H.P. Mendoza (star, writer and composer, Colma: The Musical) was in town last year I told a crew to go get an interview and don't come back unless they did. See Colma was one of our favorite films a few years ago so we just had to at least get a sound bite. Apparently the crew took my tonea little too far. Oops.

Holy shit - I thought for sure this was going to be a pure unmitigated disaster (and who knows, maybe it will be) but judging simply by the looks of the just-released trailer, this might turn out to be just the deliciously surreal freak-show we all need in times like these.

From the looks of things, director Rob Marshall has gone back to his Oscar-winning ways of Chicago and left the fiercely-coutured-yet-cold Memoirs of a Geisha a distant memory with his stunning-looking film adaptation of the Tony-winning musical Nine. The story - if you wanna call it that - is based on an Italian play that was loosely inspired by Federico Fellini's film 8½.

Keeping it all in la famiglia Marshall coaxes out an appearance by the one and only Sophia Loren - who has morphed into the ultimate MILF. (Wait til you see her cheekbones, hello!) Also making Oscar-bait appearances are Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Nicole Kidman, Kate Hudson, Penélope Cruz (wait til you see the move she pulls with her leg!), and Marion Cotillard, among others - all singing their well-toned asses off. This is the gayest story of the day, IMO.