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...BOYS IN THE BAND...is not a musical." says the ad for the film version of Mart Crowley's 1967 off Broadway play about homosexuals. That, of course is true right now, but I wouldn't be surprised it a musical Boys did turn up a few years hence. Crowley's work as a play has already done more to legitimize homosexuality as a topic for popular culture than anything else before it. As a movie, it will help open up such remaining bastions of heterosexual chauvinism as pop music and the musical theatre to candid expression by homosexual artists...
...illusion after illusion is stripped away during the party. Crowley manages to destroy virtually all popular conceptions of the homosexual personality and existence. If we cannot entirely identify with the film's world of boundless sorrow and lacerating wit, we cannot turn our backs either. As one character says to Alan. "It's like watching an accident on the highway. You can't look at it and you can't look away...
...record was 19-7. In 1966. it was 22-5. In 1967. with only one American. Framingham's Andy Crowley on the roster, it was 27-1-1 and included the ECAC and NCAA titles...
...Crowley quit, making the roster fully Canadian, and Cornell went on to a 27-2 season. Last winter, again with no Americans, the Big Red won 27-of-29, took its fourth Ivy title. the ECAC championship, and second in the NCAA tournament...
...quality of these works ranges from excellent to nauseating. But it is a fact that treatment of the theme has changed. "Homosexuality used to be a sensational gimmick," says Playwright Crowley. "The big revelation in the third act was that the guy was homosexual, and then he had to go offstage and blow his brains out. It was associated with sin, and there had to be retribution." These days a movie or play can end, as Staircase does, with a homosexual couple still together or, as Boys in the Band winds up, with two squabbling male lovers trying desperately...