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The lure of the bright lights

A DVD and a book show how New York stages beckon especially to gays

by Anthony Glassman

New York, New York, it's a hell of a town. The Bronx is up and the Battery's down. At least, that's what the old song says.

When it comes to the congruence of homosexuality and the Big Apple, however, neither the Bronx nor the Battery really matter. The gay axis of the city is a line connecting Greenwich Village and Broadway.

While Gotham has over the decades attracted innumerable gay men and lesbians simply for being a wideopen town, not to mention the birthplace of the modern gay rights movement, the theater district has been

McKay also interviews Rex Reed, Stephen Sondheim, Charles Nelson Reilly, Tommy Tune and Jerry Herman, among the roughly 75 celebrities in the documentary. It's a loving look at a bygone age which asks two questions: Was there really a "golden age" of Broadway? If so, did the people who were

ROUND ABOUT THE BALLET

William Cubberley & Joseph Carman Photographs by Roy Round

a specific destination for thousands.

The first thought that springs to mind when pondering theater in New York City is, of course, Broadway. There's a reason for the stereotype of the show tune queen, after all. My Fair Lady, Oklahoma, A Streetcar Named Desire, all the classics were on Broadway, providing a launching point for some of the biggest stars who then went on to Hollywood, or remained forever icons of the

stage.

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Rick McKay's Broadway: The Golden Age, which took five years to make, is one gay man's tribute to the Great White Way and the stars who made each of the million lights on Broadway shine.

The reason the DVD took so long to make seems to be McKay's exhaustive quest to interview everyone who was there when it was all happening. His interview list ranges from Ben Gazzarra and Charles Durning to Uta Hagen and Carol Channing.

Included are some stars who recently passed away, like Jerry Orbach and Fay Wray, as well as others who never quit, like Bea Arthur and Robert Goulet.

Of particular interest are some of the more gay-specific interviews, like Farley Granger, who walked away from Hollywood after making the crypto-homo Strangers on a Train and Rope for Alfred Hitchcock, returning to Broadway to feel the rush of performing live.

part of it realize it at the time?

Of course, there's more to the world of theater than the play and the musical. There is also the dance, and Round About the Ballet, written by William Cubberley and gay dancerturned-journalist Joseph Carman with photos by Roy Round.

A lavish coffee-table book, the tome combines gorgeous photographs of specific dancers with interviews on their backgrounds, dreams, desires, ambitions, thoughts and opinions.

An almost even mix of men and women, all the dancers are

ballets ever created.

either from the American Ballet Theater, housed in New York City, or the New York City Ballet, illustrating that it was not just people escaping the Corn Belt who went to New York to find a

more theatrical life. A dancer from Ukraine carries on the tradition of Nijinsky, Baryshnikov and Godunov, while a dancer from Spain took his love for Saturday Night Fever and flamenco and brought it to some of the greatest

For the theater lover, both the DVD and the book would be welcome additions to the collection.

Broadway: The Golden Age has so much wit and love in every moment, as well as clips of recorded performances, lost screen tests and promotional vignettes, one can only hope that the documentary itself gets carefully archived. Most notably, there is rare footage of choreographer/director Bob Fosse, another gay man, hard at work coming up with the steps to go with the music of one of his masterpieces.

In Round About the Ballet, every single page exudes a love of movement, of grace, of nobility that can really only be truly found in the world of the ballerina.

Ohio's "brain drain" is infamous and often bandied about in political campaigns. These two pieces admirably show the dreams that lure so many away to New York City.

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