Hosts Harrow and Meghan discuss Some Like It Hot and White Girl in Danger. Hear the response from Meghan on the representation(s) of her namesake (but not her spelling) and thoughts on how queerness, gender, race, and identity are represented in these two very different productions. It’s also time for Pride and there are many queer festivals, shows, and actions to take in June to support and celebrate the LGBTQ+ community!

Show Discussions:

Some Like It Hot

Book by Matthew López and Amber Ruffin, music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman, directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw

Some Like It Not: Are Men in Dresses Still Funny?

Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman Have Read Your Criticisms About Broadway's Some Like It Hot

White Girl in Danger

By Michael R. Jackson, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, and choreographed by Raja Feather Kelly

Teeth at Playwrights Horizons, February 2024

Book and music by Anna K. Jacobs, book and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson, choreographed by Raja Feather Kelly, and directed by Sarah Benson

Upcoming Shows:

FRIGID New York presents the 2023 Queerly Festival

UNDER St. Marks & The Kraine Theater, June 15-July 3rd

New Ambassadors Theatre Company’s Blurring Boundaries 2023

Hudson Guild Theatre, June 14-18th

The Tank annual PrideFest

The Tank, June 16-25th

Foxes by Dexter Flanders, directed by James Hillier

59E59’s Theater A, June 1 - July 2nd

Action of the Ep: 

Black & Pink - A nationwide PenPal program to match incarcerated LGBTQIA2S+ people and people living with HIV/AIDS with PenPals who correspond, build relationships, and participate in harm reduction and affirmation.

Queer Culture Recs:

Lempicka

Woman Is

Stay

Girl in a Green Dress, Tamara de Lempicka

Dyke Beer

Episode Credits:Edited by Harrow Sansom

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