Partial cast of Uptown Players’ ‘The Boys in the Band.’ (Courtesy photo) Uptown Players closes its season on Sunday with the classic gay play, Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band.
This dramatic tale is an interesting juxtaposition from Uptown’s previous show The Prom earlier this summer. In some ways, they bookend each other.
The Prom is a modern tale of queer joy focused on a lesbian character. Boys is a hard-hitting period piece that gives attention, and almost gives birth to the notion that gay men exist in the real world and experience happiness, love and trauma.
We’ve come a long way. It’s hard to say if queer theater today would exist without Boys, but it did create a template that we can see echoed in Love!