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The Boys in the Band Plays On
On June 16, notable names from the New York theater world gathered at the Lucille Lortel Theatre to honor the 40th anniversary of The Boys in the Band, Mart Crowley's landmark drama involving a circle of gay men in the late 1960s. Adapted into a film by William Friedkin in 1970, the play became the first Hollywood film to feature main characters who were gay and who talked openly about their lives. Long since viewed as a relic of closeted, pre-Stonewall repression, Crowley's work still packs quite a comical, stinging, relevant punch. As stars like Norm Lewis, Barrett Foa and Malcolm Gets read from the play, that old phrase "same as it ever was" kept springing to mind. Bless you, Boys!
