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Eastern Michigan University It Gets Better
28 OctI’m not sure how I feel about my gigantic face being the still shot of this video, seriously, who’s decision was that?, clearly someone has a sense of humor. But, the message is great and that first speaker is a looker, you might not get through the rest of the video….
10 Musical Theatre Performances I’m in Love With
2 OctOK, so, sure, yes, right, I’ll admit it, fine, if I have to, here goes, I am, gulp, sigh, shrug, in love with musical theatre. I know, I know, I know what that makes me in your eyes. A show queen.
So what if I am? Stereotypical? Perhaps. Am I ashamed? A little.
Since walking on that gymnasium stage my freshman year of high school in a run down building in the middle of central Illinois as part of the cast of, yup you guessed it, ‘Grease’, I have been in love with musical theatre.
My love for the genre hasn’t wained much in the years since. However, I can no longer appreciate performances simply because they are taking place in a musical. I spent a year of my life bartending in the lobbies of Broadway theaters and I know what a good performance looks like. After watching Marin Mazzie being rehearsed into ‘Spamalot’, Fantasia ripping out her vocal chords 4 shows a week (she called out all the time, mostly due to domestic disputes) in ‘The Color Purple’, and Carolee Carmello making shit material in ‘Mamma Mia’ seem like Shakespeare I know when a performance in a musical is more than just parking and barking. These people are actors, some of the best working in the theatre I would argue, and their voices and vocal pyrotechnics may have gotten them to the top of the heap of musical theatre performers working today, but it’s their ability to interpret the material that keeps them there.
So few singers understand that as an audience member I don’t give a shit what your voice sounds like if you are not performing the life out of whatever you are singing.
So fine call me a show queen. But at least I’m a show queen with taste.
TEN MUSICAL THEATRE PERFORMANCES I’M IN LOVE WITH
1. Sutton Foster ’Someone Elses Story’
2. Andrew Rannells ‘I Believe’
3. Jen Colella & Lisa Brescia ‘Who Will Love Me as I Am’
4. Carolee Carmello ‘The Winner Takes it All’
5. Raul Esparza ‘Being Alive’
6. Beth Leavel ‘As We Stumble Along’
7. Christine Ebersole ‘Around The World’
8. Jeffrey Sewell ‘So Much Better’
9. Fantasia ‘I’m Here’
10. Stephanie J. Block ‘Get Out and Stay Out’
Fill in the blank
16 Aug
While cheering his wife on in Iowa, closeted homosexual and “pray away the gay” proponent Marcus Bachmann really wishes he was _____________.
It gets better?
10 AugDoes it?, really? Get better? I mean, for anyone? Not just gays. Does it get better when you get older? Life, that is.
I am going to be part of a university wide “It Gets Better” video tomorrow and I am having some reservations. There are so many aspects of my personal life that I just haven’t figured out, so I cannot say with all honesty, that for me, just for me, that it got better. Sure, I don’t walk down hallways anymore to bros and hos yelling “fag” or “girl”, honestly sometimes I think I would take that over walking up to another table and asking “can I get you something to drink?” But, just because I am no longer ostracized on a daily basis, doesn’t necessarily mean that my life has gotten better. As an adult, gay, straight, whatever, life is certainly full of challenges that make junior high and high school look like a fucking cake walk. So is this the message we really want to be spreading? IT GETS BETTER. Maybe, instead, we should take a more honest approach to these videos…IT GETS HARDER, CAUSE YOU HAVE TO PAY BILLS AND DEAL WITH ONLINE DATING, BUT AT LEAST NO ONE CAN STUFF YOU IN A LOCKER.
If god hates fags, why are we so cute?
9 Aug
I have never considered myself an overly political guy, but the gay marriage “debate” tends to get my blood boilin. It’s not so much that I want to marry another man, it’s that christians seem to think they have the authority to stop me from marrying another man, that their love is somehow more sacred then ours. fuckers.
Check this out:
The Most Hilariously Effective Signs Supporting Gay Marriage
