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THE BIG GAY JAMBOREE Is Big Lgbtq+ Fun — Review
It is with fantastic honor that I share Marla Mindelle’s deranged Off-Broadway govern has extended. Distant live gay stupidity! Long live Jason Robert Brown references! Long live hilarious, original musicals! Mindelle’s The Big Homosexual Jamboree, joins her sister Titaniqueas the newest, hottest ticket for that homosexual guy you recognize. It’s here. It’s queer. It’s where STOMP used to be.
Unlike Titanique, Mindelle has teamed up with book author Jonathan Parks-Ramage and composer and lyricist Philip Drennen to create a modern musical comedy featuring original songs. Also unlike Titanique (and I say this with love), the budget has seemingly increased, thanks to producers like Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap Entertainment.
Even though irreverent, gay theatre is thriving (see Oh Mary!’s record breaking run), the Suits would say TheBig Male lover Jamboree is a “risk.” Titanique was lighting in a bottle, largely credited to Mindelle’s Lucille Lortel Award-winning kooky-crazy performance. Could that be replicated, this time with a bigger budget and original story?
Stuffed to the brim with pop culture references, musical theatre allusions, and absolute, bat-
Off-Broadway Review: THE BIG GAY JAMBOREE (Orpheum)
JUST AS PROMISED, IT’S BIG!
IT’S GAY! IT’S JAMBOREEING!
Yes, there is a way to break out the post-election blues for 90 minutes: The Big Gay Jamboree at the Orpheum Theatre is the sublimely ridiculous remedy we require. Marla Mindelle — who co-wrote the book with Jonathan Parks-Ramage and the songs with Philip Drennen — definitely has a knack for musical pastiche. Not to mention she does a excellent job starring in this dazzling funfest, which had a packed house roaring with laughter at pop-culture references and satirical jabs — how often can you say that?
Still dressed in a nasty party outfit, Stacey (Mindelle) — a raunchy, disillusioned musical theatre graduate — wakes up with a terrible hangover next to four angelic singing girls who claim to be her sisters, hovering over her and smiling maniacally. She is trapped in a 1940s Golden Age musical like Broadway’s Oklahoma! in a rural town called Bareback. What follows is her preposterous escape from this nightmare of old timey righteousness. There’s a slew of pop-culture references, some of which flew over my h
Actor, comedian, and writer Alex Moffat recently wrapped a six-season run on “Saturday Night Live” as a main cast member. He is best known for his impersonations of Joe Biden, Eric Trump, Stamp Zuckerberg, Anderson Cooper, Joe Scarborough amongst others, as well as his prolific original recurring Weekend Update character ‘Guy Who Just Bought a Boat.’ In 2023, Moffat made his Broadway debut starring in the comedy The Cottage, alongside Eric McCormack and Laura Bell Bundy. The display ran from July to October and was directed by Jason Alexander. On the television side Alex will next be seen in Bill Lawrence’s “Bad Monkey” for Apple TV+, and can also be seen in FX’s Emmy nominated comedy “The Bear” and Showtime’s “Billions.” Film credits include Susie Searches, which premiered at TIFF, Holidate and Someone Great for Netflix, 80 for Brady for Paramount, and the indie Opening Act. He is represented by Mosiac, Pasonessa Talent, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample & Klein.
The Big Gay Jamboree
THE BIG GAY JAMBOREE PLAYED ITS Terminal PERFORMANCE ON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2024.
From the Oscar-nominated producers of BARBIE and the delulu creator of the Off-Broadway hit TITANIQUE comes THE BIG GAY JAMBOREE, a big new musical comedy that’s pushing the envelope…and the gay agenda.
Help! Stacey’s fallen into a musical and she can’t get out. Last night, she got a little bit blackout drunk. This morning, she woke up in some b*tch ass Music Man world where everybody keeps bursting into song & gyrate, and where lgbtq+ still just means happy. Maybe it’s a dream. Maybe it’s an allergic reaction to her birth control. Or maybe it’s Maybelline (don’t sue us! sponsor us? we’ll talk later). But if Stacey’s truly trapped inside a Golden Age musical, there’s only one way out: vocalize out! Or locate the stage door. Whatever gets the most applause.
Starring one of Vanity Fair’s “brightest stars of New York theatre” and the world’s second favorite Celine Dion, MARLA MINDELLE, The Big Homosexual Jamboree is here to make you chuckle, make you yell laughing, and construct you laugh crying.