The big gay jamboree review
It’s BIG — bright and splashy and loud, love the great musicals of Broadway’s Golden Age. It’s GAY — both in its old meaning of “happy” and in its reclaimed meaning of “bold, out-front homosexual.” And it’s a JAMBOREE — a bigger-than-life musical celebration — of life, though you may not realize it at first. The Vast Gay Jamboree comes at you with all the subtlety of a freight train, never letting up, overwhelming your senses and any preconceptions you might have come in with, leaving you laughing helplessly with an added contact of “oh my God, I can’t believe they went there!”
The Enormous Gay Jamboree uses tropes of musicals past to tell the story of Stacey (Marla Mindelle, Titanique), a would-be singer-actress who wakes up after a bender to find herself in a cheery opening number, unsure of where she is. Her four “sisters” announce it is her “big gay wedding day”. They are joined by the townspeople who are celebrating the upcoming wedding — but not telling Stacey who she’s getting married to, or how she got there to begin with. Stacey has flashbacks to the overnight before, partying with “her gays” and being displeased by her boyfriend Keith (Alex Moff
Off-Broadway Review: THE Massive GAY JAMBOREE (Orpheum)
JUST AS PROMISED, IT’S BIG!
IT’S GAY! IT’S JAMBOREEING!
Yes, there is a way to escape the post-election blues for 90 minutes: The Big Gay Jamboree at the Orpheum Theatre is the sublimely ridiculous remedy we need. Marla Mindelle — who co-wrote the book with Jonathan Parks-Ramage and the songs with Philip Drennen — definitely has a knack for musical pastiche. Not to refer she does a superb job starring in this dazzling funfest, which had a packed property roaring with laughter at pop-culture references and satirical jabs — how often can you express that?
Still dressed in a nasty party outfit, Stacey (Mindelle) — a raunchy, disillusioned musical theatre graduate — wakes up with a terrible hangover next to four innocent singing girls who claim to be her sisters, hovering over her and smiling maniacally. She is trapped in a 1940s Golden Age musical fancy Broadway’s Oklahoma! in a rural town called Bareback. What follows is her preposterous escape from this nightmare of old timey righteousness. There’s a slew of pop-culture references, some of which flew over my h
The Big Gay Jamboree
THE BIG Same-sex attracted JAMBOREE PLAYED ITS FINAL Production ON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2024.
From the Oscar-nominated producers of BARBIE and the delulu maker of the Off-Broadway hit TITANIQUE comes THE BIG Queer JAMBOREE, a big 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 anthem & dance, and where lgbtq+ still just means happy. Maybe it’s a dream. Maybe it’s an allergic reaction to her birth control. 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: hum 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 Lgbtq+ Jamboree is here to make you laugh, make you cry laughing, and make you laugh crying.
THE BIG GAY JAMBOREE Is Big Same-sex attracted Fun — Review
It is with excellent honor that I share Marla Mindelle’s deranged Off-Broadway govern has extended. Drawn-out live gay stupidity! Long live Jason Robert Brown references! Long live hilarious, original musicals! Mindelle’s The Big Same-sex attracted Jamboree, joins her sister Titaniqueas the newest, hottest ticket for that male lover guy you realize. It’s here. It’s queer. It’s where STOMP used to be.
Unlike Titanique, Mindelle has teamed up with book journalist Jonathan Parks-Ramage and composer and lyricist Philip Drennen to create a fresh musical comedy featuring original songs. Also unlike Titanique (and I say this with love), the budget has seemingly increased, thanks to producers like Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap Entertainment.
Even though irreverent, homosexual theatre is thriving (see Oh Mary!’s record breaking run), the Suits would say TheBig Queer Jamboree is a “risk.” Titanique was lighting in a bottle, largely credited to Mindelle’s Lucille Lortel Award-winning kooky-crazy performance. Could that be replicated, this time with a bigger budget and original story?
Stuffed to the brim with pop culture references, musical theatre allusions, and absolute, bat-