Connie & Carla is a comedy musical. This is a comedy/drama. But I'd double bill them any day, and curl up for a torch-song fest.
I know there are gay republicans these days. I know you don't have to be a drama queen to be a queen, you don't need to sing to be a female impersonator, and heaven forbid anyone should sing 'glad to be gay' or limpen their wrist a la Naked Civil Servant - but, hey, sometimes you just want to embrace the cliché.
I wanted to embrace all of the clichés on display here - with the sole exception of the whore-with-a-heart-of-ice, who I hope you too will boo, hiss and throw popcorn at... at the appropriate point, and I will say no more.
I watch Blues Brothers regularly because I think Life Is Better With A Soundtrack. You know it makes sense - the soundtrack here is sympathetically chosen, and owes more to our glorious predecessors than to their wannabe descendants.
'You think you're a hero? Try facing *one day* in my shoes...'
I know there are gay republicans these days. I know you don't have to be a drama queen to be a queen, you don't need to sing to be a female impersonator, and heaven forbid anyone should sing 'glad to be gay' or limpen their wrist a la Naked Civil Servant - but, hey, sometimes you just want to embrace the cliché.
I wanted to embrace all of the clichés on display here - with the sole exception of the whore-with-a-heart-of-ice, who I hope you too will boo, hiss and throw popcorn at... at the appropriate point, and I will say no more.
I watch Blues Brothers regularly because I think Life Is Better With A Soundtrack. You know it makes sense - the soundtrack here is sympathetically chosen, and owes more to our glorious predecessors than to their wannabe descendants.
'You think you're a hero? Try facing *one day* in my shoes...'