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The cast of the hilarious new Broadway comedy “POTUS”Beginning with a four-letter word that rhymes with “runt,” the new Broadway comedy POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive starts in high-gear and rarely slows down serving up laugh after laugh for nearly two hours. Continue reading “New Broadway Comedy ‘POTUS’ Serves Up High-Octane Laughs”
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| Broadway Bares: Fire Island 2016 |
Some news stories you may have missed:
• Broadway Bares: Fire Island, the more intimate little bro version of the popular fundraiser, rakes in $51,733 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
• Shout-out to an old friend of mine – Hamilton star (and Tony Award nominee) Leslie Odom Jr. – who just dropped his new self-titled album which is sitting at #1 one on the iTunes Jazz chart. Go check out his music now!
• Omar Sharif Jr. admits that he had suicidal thoughts after coming out.
• Online media giant Gawker files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the wake of a $140 million lawsuit.
• Brock Turner, the convicted “Stanford rapist,” will only serve 3 months of his 6 month sentence.
• Orange Is The New Black‘s Lea Delaria thinks we should drop “LGBT” for “Queer.” I’m personally not a fan of the word. How about you? Thoughts?
• Madonna, who rarely performs her older catalogue on TV, performed “Borderline” last night on The Tonight Show.
Openly lesbian “Orange Is The New Black” star Lea Delaria was not having a street preacher proselytizing on the subway this morning.
From the video: “You have no right! Go to another train. Get off this train. Other people believe other things and have every right to believe other things on this planet and in this world. We do not have to be force-fed this man’s religious beliefs. Jesus never said for you to do this — ever!”
When the preacher starts quoting the Bible, Delaria yells back, “Don’t come at me because I went to f**king Catholic school for 12 years and I know every line.”