Broadway Needs Taylor Mac. Broadway Gets Taylor Mac

Broadway needs Taylor Mac. Broadway gets Taylor Mac.

Andrea Martin, entertainment’s longstanding MVP for several decades now, is going back to Broadway, accompanied by Nathan Lane, who is no slouch himself.  The pair will star in Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, by Taylor Mac. Who is Taylor Mac, you ask, and why is there someone named Gary associated with Titus Andronicus? Well, Taylor Mac is an artist (one who uses “judy,” lowercase sic, as a gender pronoun) and one of theater’s most innovative voices. Mac is the creator and star of one of the most buzzed-about American cultural events in recent memory, A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, the author of the acclaimed play, Hir, and a MacArthur Fellow, speaking of no slouches. Gary is Mac’s Broadway debut, and it is what the title suggests, a comic sequel to Titus Andronicus in which Lane and Martin are servants who have to clean up the carnage in the aftermath of war. We hate to jinx by getting too revved up, but this has all the signs – rising creator on a roll meets comedy legends – of being something very special, and we’re just going to hand it all the Tony Awards now.

Jim Parsons makes room at the Inn

In 1999, The New Yorker published “The Inn Crowd,” an article by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tony Horwitz detailing the controversy surrounding the Inn at Little Washington in Rappahannock County, Virginia. The residents of the area were split over whether or not to be decent human beings and welcome a gay couple and their business, or be stereotypical rednecks and run them out of town.

Two decades later, that slice of American life is in the process of becoming a sitcom produced by Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons, Young & Hungry creator David Holden, and producing partner Todd Spiewak. The series is in development at NBC, and though no cast has been officially announced, it’s assumed that Parsons will star. We’re also assuming that in 2018 the homophobia will be made somewhat more adorable and easily turned to sweetness by the end of about the fifth episode, and we’re totally fine with that. Create the world you want to see and all that.

Romeo San Vicente’s self-created world looks a lot like Folsom Street Fair.

 

source https://hotspotsmagazine.com/2018/10/11/broadway-needs-taylor-mac-broadway-gets-taylor-mac/