I believe the line is "The New York Times effect on man," referencing the way the major disco-lizard scene jumped from underground gay black scene to major working-class passion after the (semi-fictionalized) expose in the Times that inspired the film "Saturday Night Fever."

Hamish Linklater does a lot of these short lived but beloved sitcoms, but has established himself as a stage actor first and foremost. He did "Comedy of Errors" with Jesse Tyler Ferguson a few years ago in Central Park, with the two of them playing sets of identical twins who keep missing each other and mistaking one…

I know I plug the theatre community almost every day here, but there's a really interesting play with music running right now called "Beautiful," about the twilight of Tin Pan Alley in the 1960s, when Brill Building songwriters like Carole King and Gerry Goffin were basically living "Mad Men" type lives writing and…

I should have put "platonic ideal" in quotations. From the stories I've heard, he was more interested in appreciating manhood than in pursuing men for actual sex or relationships, much like renowned muscle queen Frank N. Furter.

Now that Star Wars belongs to Disney, the quality has gone up, but Star Wars belongs to the self-reflexive "Disney Magic" regime. This means that the act of loving Star Wars is as important as Star Wars itself.

Your comment is enjoyably stream of consciousness, I love it.
As far as Curry in the gay community, I'm not gay myself but I work in the theatre, and more specifically I work in the Rocky Horror fandom every October. Naturally, you get to hear things about famous characters… According to a Brit colleague of a certain…

Joni Michell's path crosses unexpectedly with Tim Curry's, but both of them have the same trajectory: idiosyncratic and iconic performers of the 1970s whose output remained prolific until their health issues sidelined them, possibly permanently. Between his breakout in "Rocky Horror" and his career as a B-movie…

Since Zagnut bars aren't a thing in my region, I thought it was just a humorously named prop in the "Beetlejuice" movie.

They have three and a half albums, with rumors of a fourth coming out. Time for me to put my indie-pop nerd hat on:
So, first they've got "Hot Show." Probably their most famous album, and the one that most establishes the satirical side of the concept, with multiple songs about Simon's patheticness with women,…

Cheer up, Hamlet!

The book is the revisionist fantasy equivalent of an Alan Moore graphic novel. The musical is essentially a fantastic Disney Renaissance stage musical minus the Disney… but with heaps of "romantic two-girl friendship" and a plot that asks "what if the terrorists are right?" It's cute, but I'd be lying if I said it…

That's "The Wizard and I."

Schwartz writes lyrics like Russell Brand talks. You have a pretty solid idea of where he's going to go and how he's going to get there, but he throws in a lot of unexpected twists and turns of sesquipedalian loquaciousness to skew the effect. The simplicity of an Alan Menken lyric, but wearing a pimp costume, so to…

Wouldst tha' like a pretty dress?

Paul Steel. Sadly non-prolific art-pop auteur- imagine Brian Wilson loosing his innocence, or Jellyfish but more British. He's only got some two and a half albums, but each track is more or less a tiny masterpiece.
That, and Prozzak (briefly known as Simon and Milo). Canadian stealth parody of disposable British pop…

"Mother, May I Eat Broken Glass?" sounds like a My Chemical Romance B-side.

Sure, but you've gotta love two-tone ska.

Alternate interpretation: drink blood, and/or drink the blood of his lover. It's a song that works both ways, as Steinman has a horror and vampire obsession, and enjoys the notion of "Peter Pan as vampire" enough that he's worked it into almost everything he's ever written on some level. The video is soaked in vampire…

I was thinking more "Tribute" by Tenacious D.

As someone who's done Jesus Christ Superstar four times (if you can sing the demanding role of Annas the Chief Priest, and typically understudy Jesus and Judas, you're gonna do Jesus Christ Superstar a LOT), I enjoyed how gleefully, bizarrely wrong their version of the show is, complete with Jesus taking a break from…