Mart Crowley, the author of The Boys in the Band, who died in March at age 84, but he lived to see much of it. He saw his most famous play finally get a Broadway production and win a Tony Award (for Best Revival of a Play), and he knew that a Netflix film, with the full 2018 Broadway cast, all of whom are out, was in the works.
The film will be released September 30, so his groundbreaking work will reach new audiences. There have been, of course, countless regional and community theater productions of Boys since its initial off-Broadway run, which began in 1968, and it was made into a movie in 1970, with all of the original cast and with Crowley writing the screenplay.