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The Boys in the Band is a 2020 American drama film directed by Joe Mantello, based on the 1968 play of the same name by Mart Crowley, who also wrote the screenplay alongside Ned Martel.
The Boys in the Band: Directed by Joe Mantello. With Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer, Andrew Rannells. At a birthday party in 1968 New York, a surprise guest and a drunken game leave seven gay friends reckoning with unspoken feelings and buried truths.
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The Boys in the Band is a 1970 American drama film directed by William Friedkin from a screenplay by Mart Crowley, based on Crowley's 1968 Off-Broadway play of the same name.
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The play is set in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, "a smartly appointed duplex apartment in the East Fifties",and the backgrounds of characters are revealed in the course of a birthday party. 1. Harold celebrates his birthday. In the character's own words an "ugly, pock-marked Jew fairy", he becomes increasingly morose about losin...
The Boys in the Band was written by American playwright Mart Crowley. In 1957, Crowley started working for a number of television production companies, before meeting Natalie Wood on the set of her film Splendor in the Grass while working as a production assistant. Wood hired him as her assistant, primarily to give him ample free time to work on hi...
Off-Broadway premiere, 1968
While Crowley was pitching the script, early agents stayed away from the project, and it was championed by playwright Edward Albee and Richard Barr, who at the time was head of the Playwrights Units in New York. For the production, it proved "nearly impossible to find" actors willing to play gay characters. An old college friend of Crowley's, 33-year-old Laurence Luckinbill, agreed to play Hank despite warnings from his agent that it would end his career, even though the agent was herself a l...
Off-Broadway and London revivals
The play was revived Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in 1996, running from August 6 to October 20, after its initial sold-out run at the WPA Theater. The Boys in the Band was presented by the Transport GroupTheater Company, New York City, from February 2010 to March 14, 2010, directed by Jack Cummings III. A London staging in October 2016 at Park Theatre was the first revival there in two decades. It subsequently transferred to the Vaudeville Theatre in the West End. Positively rev...
Broadway production, 2018
A Broadway production of The Boys in the Band, directed by Joe Mantello, opened in previews at the Booth Theatre on April 30, 2018, officially on May 31, and ran until August 11, 2018. This production, staged for the 50th anniversary of the play's original premiere, starred Matt Bomer, Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto and Andrew Rannells, as well as Charlie Carver, Brian Hutchison, Michael Benjamin Washington, Robin de Jesús, and Tuc Watkins. Quinto portrayed Harold, whose birthday sets the premis...
When The Boys in the Band premiered in 1968, mainstream audiences were shocked. The play was profiled in the William Goldman book The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway, an account of the 1967–1968 season. In the same year, a two-disc, vinyl LP set was released, containing the full dialogue of the play voiced by the original actors. Crowley wrote th...
In 2002, Crowley wrote The Men from the Boys, a sequel to the play, which takes place 30 years after the original. It premiered in San Francisco in 2002, directed by Ed Decker,and was produced in Los Angeles in 2003.
The play was adapted into a feature film by Cinema Center Films in 1970, directed by William Friedkin. Ryan Murphy produced a second film adaptation for Netflix with the 2018 Broadway revival cast and Joe Mantellodirecting.
Lambert, Gavin (January 11, 2012). Natalie Wood: A Life (First ed.). New York: Knopf Doubleday. ISBN 978-0307816801.
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The Boys in the Band. A visitor turns an evening upside down when he interrupts a gathering of gay men in New York City in 1968. Watch The Boys in the Band with a subscription...
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Sep 7, 2020 · Based on the Tony Award-winning play that changed a generation, The Boys in the Band follows a group of nine gay men who gather for a birthday party in 1968 New York City - only to find the drinks and laughs interrupted when a visitor from the host’s past turns the evening upside down.
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The Boys in the Band: Directed by William Friedkin. With Kenneth Nelson, Frederick Combs, Cliff Gorman, Laurence Luckinbill. Tempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual accidentally intrudes on a homosexual party.
