Mart Crowley met Natalie Wood on the set of "Splendor in the Grass" and they became friends. During the years when they worked together, he used his free time to write a play about the homophobia that gays internalized in the years before the Stonewall Uprising. With funds provided by Wood (a friend of Hollywood's gay community), Crowley debuted "The Boys in the Band" in 1968, taking the title from a line in the 1954 version of "A Star Is Born". (full disclosure: I've never seen the play)
The play got revived in 2018 for the 50th anniversary, marking the first time that it had played on Broadway. The cast included Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto and Matt Bomer, with direction from Joe Mantello and produced by Ryan Murphy. And so now, they've brought it to Netflix. What a show! Everything about this movie is perfect. Obviously a lot of things have changed for the gay community since 1968, but it remains as important as ever to understand the self-hate that they had back then. Definitely see it.
Since Jim Parsons co-stars with Zachary Quinto, I like to think that means that Sheldon Cooper has gotten to meet Mr. Spock.
The play got revived in 2018 for the 50th anniversary, marking the first time that it had played on Broadway. The cast included Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto and Matt Bomer, with direction from Joe Mantello and produced by Ryan Murphy. And so now, they've brought it to Netflix. What a show! Everything about this movie is perfect. Obviously a lot of things have changed for the gay community since 1968, but it remains as important as ever to understand the self-hate that they had back then. Definitely see it.
Since Jim Parsons co-stars with Zachary Quinto, I like to think that means that Sheldon Cooper has gotten to meet Mr. Spock.