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236:, Michael's married college friend and roommate, is an unexpected party guest. He is visiting New York and anxious to tell Michael something, but hesitant to do so in front of the others. It is suggested that he once had homosexual affairs while in college, but his sexual orientation is never explicitly stated, leaving it to audience interpretation. The 292:
During the party, the humor takes a nasty turn, as the nine men become increasingly inebriated. The party culminates in a "game", where each man must call someone whom he has loved and tell them about it. Michael, believing that Alan has finally "outed" himself when he makes his call, grabs the phone
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as Bernard. The play was one of the early works to present a story centered on homosexuals. In 1968, although only originally scheduled to run for five performances at a small venue off Broadway, it was a fast success and was moved to a larger theater. It went on to have a run in London as well. The
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Crowley made no secret that all characters were based on real people in his life, with Michael reminding him of himself, describing the character as "a complex person who is aware of what is politically correct but has a sort of contempt for it". He called Donald "a foil for Michael" and inspired by
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According to Crowley, his motivation in writing the play was not activism, but anger that "had partially to do with myself and my career, but it also had to do with the social attitude of people around me, and the laws of the day". He says he "wanted the injustice of it all — to all those characters
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while working as a production assistant. Wood hired him as her assistant, primarily to give him ample free time to work on his gay-themed play. Wood, Crowley's close friend, inspired him to move from New York to Hollywood. According to Crowley's friend
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Hank is Larry's live-in boyfriend who has been married to a woman from whom he is separated and is divorcing. He "passes" as straight and disagrees with Larry on the issue of monogamy. Physically, he is described as "solid, athletic,
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celebrates his birthday. In the character's own words an "ugly, pock-marked Jew fairy", he becomes increasingly morose about losing his youthful looks and claims that he no longer can attract cute young men. In the
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praised this play, its one-liners, and its live performance in Philadelphia. He rebutted criticism that the play portrayed "urban gay men as narcissistic, bitter, shallow".
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on April 30, 2018, officially on May 31, and ran until August 11, 2018. This production, staged for the 50th anniversary of the play's original premiere, starred
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premiere's actors such as Laurence Luckinbill drilled a hole in the set so they could spy on whoever was in the house's best seats, and in the initial weeks, saw
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Donald is Michael's ex-boyfriend, current friend (though the exact nature of their relationship is ambiguous) who has moved from the city to
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where he only had to "throw dinner parties and drink myself into oblivion." He began writing instead of drinking, and began working on
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Bernard is an African-American librarian who still pines for the wealthy white boy in whose house his mother worked as a maid. In the
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from him and discovers Alan has called his wife. The audience never learns what Alan intended to discuss with Michael in the end.
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While Crowley was pitching the script, early agents stayed away from the project, and it was championed by playwright
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for its 50th anniversary in 2018. The play revolves around a group of gay men who gather for a birthday party in
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to spurn the homosexual "lifestyle", and is undergoing psychoanalysis. He has "wholesome American good looks".
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on April 14, 1968, at Theater Four, and closed on September 6, 1970, after 1,001 performances. Directed by
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Theater Company, New York City, from February 2010 to March 14, 2010, directed by Jack Cummings III.
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in 1996, running from August 6 to October 20, after its initial sold-out run at the WPA Theater.
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After several Hollywood film productions he was helping on were canceled, his wealthy friend
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Larry is a commercial artist who prefers multiple sex partners and is "extremely handsome".
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a droll friend he would periodically take wry comments from. In the 1995 documentary
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premiered in 1968, mainstream audiences were shocked. The play was profiled in the
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was the first revival there in two decades. It subsequently transferred to the
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who is "not too bright" and "too pretty", is one of Harold's birthday presents.
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The Band Plays: The Boys in the Band and its sequel The Men from the Boys
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The Band Plays: The Boys in the Band and its sequel The Men from the Boys
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contended that the play's original production helped inspire the 1969
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Emory is a flamboyant and effeminate interior decorator. He is often
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for dancer/choreographer Howard Jeffrey, who died in 1988 of
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Theatre Four, 424 West 55th Street, Manhattan, New York City
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in his sense of humor, which serves to irritate others.
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to Be Adapted for Netflix With All-Star Broadway Cast"
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returns to stage, tamer now but still honest, witty".
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for Netflix with the 2018 Broadway revival cast and
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The party is given by Harold's six closest friends:
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Mart Crowley
Manhattan
play
Mart Crowley
Off-Broadway
Broadway
New York City
1970
2020
The Men from the Boys
Upper East Side
Manhattan
dramatis personae
Semitic
hustler
frenemy
alcoholic
the Hamptons
campy
Mart Crowley
Natalie Wood
Splendor in the Grass
Gavin Lambert
Robert Wagner
Diana Lynn
Georgian mansion
Dominick Dunne
A Star Is Born
James Mason

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