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News Round-Up: April 28, 2019

Bremen Menelli

Some news items you might have missed:

• InstaHunk Bremen Menelli, currently in Palm Springs, is all smiles. I know a whole lotta gays are in the PS, so lots to smile about.

• Judith Light, Emmy and Tony Award winner, will be honored with the 2019 Isabelle Stevenson Award, presented to theater community members in recognition of their humanitarian contributions.

Light has worked tirelessly for decades as an advocate for LGBTQ rights; she’s been there for the fight against HIV/AIDS; and she continues to work with the Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Truly a more-than-worthy recipient.

• Fourteen states currently have pending legislation that would require all presidential and vice presidential candidates to release their individual tax returns in order to appear on the ballot during the presidential or general election. The fourteen states are Arizona, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington. Donald Trump – they’re looking at you.

• One day after former Vice President Joe Biden announced he is running for president in 2020, Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, has issued a statement saying he will no longer accept campaign donations from federal lobbyists. Additionally, he will be returning the $30,250 he had received from those who had donated.

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg announced in an email on Friday that the campaign will no longer accept contributions from federal lobbyists, and plans to return $30,250 to those who have already donated.

• With over 3 million LGBTQ Americans living in rural areas, gay-friendly towns in red states (like Fayetteville, Arkansas) are in the hunt for LGBTQ travel dollars saying they welcome the gays.

• Woofy Pennsylvania state lawmaker Brian Sims started a conversation on his Instagram posting a photo of a Truvada pill, with the caption:

“PrEP/PEP: Starting this day off smart, proactive, and in control! Think this is an invite to talk about my sex life? It’s not. Think it’s an invite to shame me or anyone else? Grow up. “Stigma” is the thing our enemies want us to be stunted by. It literally kills us. It’s stupid and we control our own fate. No shame in this game. Just Pride. #PrEPsavesLIVES”

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Trailer: Amazon’s “Transparent” Season 2

Five Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards.

Amazon’s triumphant Transparent returns for a second season December 11th on Amazon Video.

Catch up season 1 now: amzn.to/1WWRxIu

Now out of the closet, Maura discovers the hardest part of her transition is still ahead, and faces some very tough, personal decisions about her future.

As their secrets surface, the Pfeffermans stumble but persevere, moving closer toward their authentic selves.

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Trailer: Transparent

Amazon  will release a full 10-episode season of it’s latest original series programming, Transparent on September 26th.

Created by award-winning director Jill Soloway (Six Feet Under, United States of Tara), the half-hour dark comedy, family-centric series starring Jeffrey Tambor, Judith Light (a major favorite of mine), Gaby Hoffmann, Amy Landecker and Jay Duplass.

Quirks, neuroses and family dynamics are front and center including father figure Tambor’s embrace of his cross-dressing self.  Gay, straight, lesbian, trans – it’s all in here.

Check out the trailer below:

(h/t JMG)

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Judith Light to join cast of TNT’s “Dallas”

From the website WeLoveSoaps comes the news that Emmy and Tony Award winner Judith Light will be joining the cast of TNT’s DALLAS for it’s upcoming 2nd season.

Word is she will be playing “an authoritative and controlling battle-ax who will fight to the death to protect the people she loves. And for the people she loves, she uses every psychological trick in the book to make them do what she wants.”

Judith is one of those actresses with the unique ability to play vulnerable characters with strength.

Sound like a good fit for DALLAS. What do you think?

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Recap of the 2012 Tony Awards

There was no clean sweep at this year’s ceremony, and very little drama to divide theaterfolk about the winners. Once won Best Musical; Clybourne Park won Best Play.

From his snazzy opening number, “What If Life Were More Like Theater” (with Patti LuPone pushing a lawnmower in an evening gown like a lesbian version of Audrey’s “Somewhere That’s Green” fantasy), to his written-in-the-wings closer, “There’s No Time,” host Neil Patrick Harris crooned, hoofed, cracked jokes, and even hung upside-down in what seemed like forever in a riff on Spider-man‘s dangling acrobats.

I was thilled to see Newsies choreographer Chris Gattelli win his first Tony Award; and also the luminous Judith Light’s win for her amazing performance in Other Desert Cities. Both were guests on my radio show, The Candi and Randy Show last week. Click here to listen to their journeys from rehearsals to Tony Award winners.

Full list of winners:

Play: Clybourne Park, Bruce Norris

Musical: Once

Revival of a play: Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

Revival of a musical: The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess

Book of a musical: Once, Enda Walsh

Original score (music and/or lyrics): Newsies, music: Alan Menken; lyrics: Jack Feldman

Performance by an actor in a leading role in a play: James Corden, One Man, Two Guvnors

Performance by an actress in a leading role in a play: Nina Arianda, Venus in Fur

Performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical: Steve Kazee, Once

Performance by an actress in a leading role in a musical: Audra McDonald, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess

Performance by an actor in a featured role in a play: Christian Borle, Peter and the Starcatcher

Performance by an actress in a featured role in a play: Judith Light, Other Desert Cities

Performance by an actor in a featured role in a musical: Michael McGrath, Nice Work If You Can Get It

Performance by an actress in a featured role in a musical: Judy Kaye, “Nice Work If You Can Get It

Scenic design of a play: Donyale Werle, Peter and the Starcatcher

Scenic design of a musical: Bob Crowley, Once

Costume design of a play: Paloma Young, Peter and the Starcatcher

Costume design of a musical: Gregg Barnes, Follies

Lighting design of a play: Jeff Croiter, Peter and the Starcatcher

Lighting design of a musical: Natasha Katz, Once

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2012 Tony Awards Preview featuring Judith Light, Norm Lewis, Chris Gattelli and more

Listen to internet radio with CandiXRandy on Blog Talk Radio

Tune in to The Candi & Randy Show as we welcome some of this year’s celebrated Tony Award nominees as they discuss the process, success and joys of being a part of the 2011-2012 Broadway theatrical season.

We celebrate the best of Broadway this year by inviting Tony nominated directors, choreographers, actors and composers to talk about their work, nominations and their thoughts on the current Broadway season.

Our guests include Judith Light (Other Desert Cities), Kathleen Marshall (Nice Work If You Can Get It), Norm Lewis (The Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess), Chris Gattelli (Newsies), and Wayne Barker (Peter and the Starcatcher).