Big gay jamboree review
Review Roundup: THE BIG GAY JAMBOREE Opens Off-Broadway
The Big Gay Jamboree has officially arrived off-Broadway! The novel musical is directed and choreographed by Connor Gallagher, with a book by Marla Mindelle and Jonathan Parks-Ramage, and music & lyrics by Mindelle and Philip Drennen.
The Big Homosexual Jamboree centers on Stacey (Mindelle), who after blacking out from 18 Jägerbombs, wakes up hungover in the most terrifying place of all: an Off-Broadway musical. With no memory of how she got there, Stacey is forced to put her BFA in theater to use, belt her face off, and figure out how the hell she’s gonna break out this 1940's golden age musical...while a live audience watches. Starring and co-created by Marla Mindelle, the Obie- and Lucille Lortel Award winning actress/creator/gay genius behind the smash hit Titaníque, The Big Gay Jamboree is an outrageous new musical comedy that will go you shook, cackling, and screaming "mother" at the stage.
The critics have spoken and you can check out what they are saying about the unused show below.
Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times: The imaginative score works by aggregating refer
Review: The Big Queer Jamboree Is the Gayest Musical in New York
Things would be so much better if existence was a musical, said no one ever — no one sane anyway. Even Stacey (Marla Mindelle) knows that life sucks in the cuddly dystopia of classic American musicals like The Music Man or Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and she was mad enough to fetch a bachelor’s degree in musical theater.
But a fantasy musical life is exactly what she gets in The Enormous Gay Jamboree, now making its society premiere off-Broadway at the Orpheum Theatre. A laugh-out-loud satire of the American musical wrapped in a surprisingly clever plot about existence choices and adjust, it’s a sparkling example of what intrepid theatermakers can achieve off-Broadway.
We shouldn’t be surprised. The Big Gay Jamboree is Mindelle’s latest musical, following the off-Broadway smash smash Titaníque, which she co-created. This venture exudes the alike brand of naughty metatheatrical irreverence that makes Titaníque such a hoot, but its target is much broader — not just one movie from the ’90s, but the entire musical-theater canon.
Stacey wakes up in the idyllic town of Bareback, Idaho, on what she is told is her wed
One of my favorite aspects of satire is how it lovingly mocks it’s subject.
In the new Off-Broadway musical, The Big Lgbtq+ Jamboree, Stacey (Marla Mindelle, who also co-wrote the show) drank too much the night before. Waking up in a Golden Age musical (a la The Music Man) this aspiring actress figures out that the only way to get home is to sing and move. While she does everything she can to go back to our world, she starts reconsidering her bond with her fiancé, Keith (Alex Moffatt).
This show is brilliant. It is gut-bustlingly funny, entertaining, and one of the best musicals that I have ever seen. Mindelle and her fellow writers lovingly skewer the genre and the various tropes that exist within the narratives.
Do I recommend it? Absolutely. This is a must-see.
The Big Lgbtq+ Jamboree is playing at the Orpheum Theatre in New York City until March 23rd, 2025. Verify the website for tickets and showtimes.
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The Big Gay Jamboree
THE Massive GAY JAMBOREE PLAYED ITS FINAL PERFORMANCE ON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2024.
From the Oscar-nominated producers of BARBIE and the delulu author of the Off-Broadway hit TITANIQUE comes THE BIG GAY JAMBOREE, a massive 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 & sway, and where gay still just means happy. Maybe it’s a dream. Maybe it’s an allergic reaction to her birth rule. 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: carol out! Or find 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 Gay Jamboree is here to make you smile, make you cry laughing, and make you laugh crying.
The Big Gay Jamboree
Review
Theater review by Raven Snook
Musical-comedy queens will gag for The Big Gay Jamboree, a cheeky send-up of the form. Failed Broadway baby Stacey (Titanique icon Marla Mindelle) wakes up with a hangover to find that she is somehow trapped inside an old-time musical. The last thing she remembers is fighting with her tech-bro boyfriend (Alex Moffat, in a variant on his Guy Who Just Bought a Boat character from Saturday Night Live); now it’s 1945 in the small town of Bareback, Idaho, where everyone constantly bursts into song and Stacey is slated to be wed to an unseen groom. As she tries to get assist home, she's joined by fellow misfits, in the tradition of The Wizard of Oz: the town's lone Black guy, Clarence (a steamy Paris Nix); Flora, a BDSM Ado Annie (Natalie Walker, fierce); and dance-happy homosexual Bert (Mindelle's Titanique collaborator Constantine Rousouli, who slays with a "Music and the Mirror"–style solo).
The Big Homosexual Jamboree | Photograph: Courtesy Matthew Murphy
The amusing pastiche score, by Mindelle and Philip Drennen, is performed with gusto by the exuberant cast, which is kept in nearly perpetual moti