PUBLISHED July 30th, 2014 09:37 am | UPDATED May 9th, 2018 03:13 am
Tim Garner Productions announces its follow-up to the critically and audience-acclaimed Take Me Out – the 2014 Singapore premiere of the hit 1968 off-Broadway play, Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band – the second in a series of LGBT plays encouraging discussion on diversity, equality, and inclusion in Singapore.
During the play, which is set in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in the late 1960s, the diverse group of characters celebrate a mutual friend’s 32nd birthday. As the play unfolds, the audience watches in real-time as the amiable turns fraught, prejudices are exposed, and true personalities are unleashed, ultimately leading us to question the characters’, and our own, concept of friendship.
The Boys in the Band, described by The Wall Street Journal as ‘A play of real substance, one that deserves to be performed not occasionally but regularly’ and ‘Witty, bitchy, revelatory and dazzlingly entertaining’ (The New York Times), premieres in Singapore with an all-male, multi-national cast performing the seminal hit which seriously portrayed gay men onstage for the first time and sparked the gay rights movement in America.
DIRECTED BY Tony Knight (Programme Leader, Musical Theatre, LASALLE)
STARRING Chris Bucko (Larry), Marc Checkley (Alan), Nelson Clemente (Donald), Tim Garner (Michael), Robert Jenkin (Cowboy), Rob Schilling (Harold), Ali Shewring (Hank), Frédéric Soumaré (Bernard) and Andrew Sutherland (Emory).
WRITTEN BY Mart Crowley
ORIGINALLY PRODUCED OFF-BROADWAY BY Richard Barr and Charles Woodward
PRESENTED BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.
SEASON DATES: August 7 – 16
TICKETING: [SISTIC](www.sistic.com.sg)
CORPORATE and GROUPS: email
RUNNING TIME: 110 minutes (no interval)
RATED: R18 – Homosexual Theme
The Boys in the Band first opened on April 14, 1968 at Theater Four, where it ran for more than 1,000 performances.