“everything with you is gay, gay, gay!” It wasn’t meant as a compliment. He only wrote one score, to my knowledge, that features a gay relationship (2003’s “Bounce.”) But to me, every last one of his plays is, while not explicitly featuring gay people, about us.
About the way queer people talk and act and think and relate to each other. The way we read each other for filth, tease each other, indulge in our worst instincts together.
The way we create and nurture friendships. The way we understand reality. And our honesty: the brutal honesty that made so many of his works so cuttingly ingenious.
How else does a musical like “A Little Night Music” work, with its dizzying, myriad perspectives? How else does one person access the internally of.