I had been aching to see the Big Gay Musical for ages now - a formula made in heaven, featuring sluts, telly evangelists, porn stars and camp gay men with angel wings, it just had to be a great experience. Read my previous blogs here and here.
Admittedly none of us were quite sure what to expect, but after all this wait it turned out to be a fantastic film - a story-within-a-story revolving around a cheap off-Broadway musical “Adam & Steve, Just the Way God Made ‘Em” and the tortuous personal lives of the boys playing the lead roles.
With brilliant song-and-dance numbers (especially the "gay cure" camp, the roller-skating guardian angel "Dorothy" and the campest "God" you could ever imagine) interwoven with the parallel stories about Paul's search for sex and love, and Eddie's crisis as his religious parents head to New York for the opening night of this very anti-religious play.
We laughed out loud as scenes from the “Breeder’s Informational Book of Living Examples” are given a brand new twist, Eve turns out to be right nasty bitch, and the telly evangelists have their own Damascene conversion along the way...
I met Daniel Robinson at a Polari night last year, and what a lovely man he is - I even had my arms round him for a photoshoot (wish it was my legs, but never mind!).
Here is a sample of what the movie has to offer. If you ever get the opportunity to see this film, I highly recommend it - a great pick-me-up and a perfect Sunday treat!
