Logo Drama Club: The Boys in the Band and The Temperamentals
This week, we talked to Michael Urie from Ugly Betty, Thomas Jay Ryan, and Nick Westrate about the shows they’re currently appearing in about the gays.
That’s right! What’s better than an historical play that focuses on gay men? TWO historical plays that focus on gay men! Also, Christmas. This week on Logo Drama Club, we chilled with the casts of “The Boys in the Band” and “The Temperamentals,” two plays currently running in New York.
The Boys in the Band is being staged in a renovated loft space that The Transport Group has turned into an “apartment” of sorts with the audience sitting inches from the action. Meanwhile, The Temperamentals has recently moved from a smaller theater to its new home at New World Stages. Meanwhile, I’ve recently moved into both of these cast’s lives to talk to them about their current show. And I’m staying for a while.






“The Boys in the Band” is dated, yet the movie is still fun. I hope no attempt is made to be politically correct: as the straight public had no familiarity with stereotypes, they were forgiving of the effeminate Emory even as some “real men” in the audience squirmed at the visit from a straight and the call-your-first-fixation telephone game: as dramatic devices as have been created in centuries of theatre. Wish I could go.