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Ben Platt’s Liza tribute, a Dolly Parton burlesque & Latrice Royale’s next carnivorous role

Judy Garland, Minnelli appeared on Broadway nine times, but it wasn’t until her tribute concert to her father, Minnelli on Minnelli, that the Oscar-winning star of Cabaret finally played the Palace. It was a homecoming of sorts — Garland had wowed audiences for three different residencies at the theater between 1951 and 1967. Platt’s concert is a mash-up of musical theater songs and a nod to his new album, Honeymind, a kind of retro tribute with nods to Paul Simon and James Taylor through a decidedly queer lens.
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04.06 / 15:27
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For Ben Platt, his coming-out party as a pop artist on “Sing to Me Instead,” his 2018 debut studio LP, was no big queer reveal.“When I made my first album, it was sort of received as, like, a ‘coming out’ — and it’s not even something that I anticipated,” Platt, 30, said in The Post’s exclusive video series, “Music to My Years.”In fact, for Platt, it was all a matter of fact: The Tony-winning star of “Dear Evan Hansen” had come out as gay long before that — “when I was 12 or 13,” he said.“If I’m going to write about my relationship or I’m going to depict it in a music video, it’s a queer relationship,” said Platt of openly expressing his sexuality. “So it was kind of a no-brainer to me.
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