|
''The Boys in the Band'' is a play by Mart Crowley. The off-Broadway production, directed by Robert Moore, opened on April 14, 1968 at Theater Four,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lortel Archives listing )〕 where it ran for more than 1,000 performances.〔 The cast included Kenneth Nelson as Michael, Peter White as Alan, Leonard Frey as Harold, Cliff Gorman as Emory, Frederick Combs as Donald, Laurence Luckinbill as Hank, Keith Prentice as Larry, Robert La Tourneaux as Cowboy, and Reuben Greene as Bernard. The play was adapted into a feature film of the same name by Cinema Center Films in 1970. In 2002, Crowley wrote a sequel to the play, ''The Men from the Boys'', which takes place thirty years after the original. == Plot == During the play, which is set in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, backgrounds of characters are discovered during a birthday party. * Harold celebrates his birthday party, thrown by six of his closest friends. He becomes increasingly morose about losing his youthful looks and claims that he no longer can attract cute young men. * "Cowboy", an attractive blond male prostitute who is "not too bright",〔 is one of Harold's presents. * Alan is an unexpected party guest, Michael's allegedly straight college friend,〔 who is in town and anxious to tell Michael something—but hesitant to do so when he sees the group. Harold's six closest friends are: * Michael is Harold's "friend-enemy",〔 the host, and a lapsed Roman Catholic alcoholic undergoing psychoanalysis * Donald is a conflicted friend, who has moved from the city to spurn the homosexual "lifestyle". * Bernard is an African-American, who still pines for the wealthy white boy in the house where his mother worked as a maid. * Emory is flamboyant and "effeminate".〔 * Larry, a fashion photographer who prefers multiple sex partners, and * Hank, Larry's live-in boyfriend who was previously married to a woman, and "passes" as straight. He disagrees with Larry on the issue of monogamy. During the party, one humor takes a nasty turn, as the nine men become increasingly inebriated. The party culminates in a game, where each man must call someone and tell him he loves him. Michael, believing that Alan has finally "outed" himself when he makes his call, realizes that Alan's wife is the recipient of Alan's call when he grabs the phone away from Alan. The audience never learns what Alan intended to discuss with Michael in the end. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Boys in the Band (play)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|