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Original Title:	The Boys in the Band
ISBN:	0436116502 (ISBN13: 9780436116506)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Michael, Harold, Donald, Larry, Cowboy, Emory, Alan, Bernard, Hank

The Boys in the Band

Mart Crowley

Paperback | Pages: 182 pages

Rating: 3.94 | 686 Users | 49 Reviews

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"Boys can still hold its own . . . [Mart] Crowley's point is about how the humor is shaped and defined by the pain."-The New York Times

The Boys in the Band was the first commercially successful play to reveal gay life to mainstream America. Alyson is proud to release a special fortieth anniversary edition of the play, which includes an original preface by acclaimed writer Tony Kushner (Angels in America), along with previously unpublished photographs of Mart Crowley and the cast of the play/film.

Mart Crowley's other plays include the autobiographical A Breeze from the Gulf (1973) and The Men from the Boys (2002).

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Title	:	The Boys in the Band
Author	:	Mart Crowley
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 182 pages
Published	:	1968 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Categories	:	Plays. LGBT. Drama. Theatre. Fiction. GLBT. Queer

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Not sure how to judge the merits of this work as a play but the content and characters are a worthwhile snapshot of our community at a time when few outside our circles cared about us and we were still grappling with loving ourselves.

I first heard about this play some time in the 90s. The "Gay Community" was protesting it because it made gay men look bad in the public eye, or something to that effect. Since I am the kind of person who needs to think for myself and whose opinions are not mockingbird echoes of trendy magazine reviews, I read the play as published in book form.And I liked it. On one hand, I can understand why most queer folk don't want to be represented by Matt Crowley's characters, or would prefer to be

I love this play there are some funny asf oneliners!

Assisted with a local staged reading over the weekend. A good script, and I can easily understand how groundbreaking it might have been at the time of publication/original performance. Some loosely-wired corner of my brain always confuses this with THE BOYS IN THE BOAT - with the end result being a flamingly-queer gold-medal-winning Olympic rowing team in Hitler's Berlin. Amusing, brain.

I first saw the movie about 15 years ago. I remember walking away from the film wondering how these men could be friends after the horrendous ways they treat each other during a birthday celebration for one of the nine friends. The main character of Michael who is hosting the party is such a despicable human being that I wanted to seriously punch him out. I was very aware of how the film was viewed by many gay and lesbian people, but because I really didn't know the whole story, I went into the

I've always wanted to read this just because of the aura around it being one of the first major gay literary pieces of our time. I must say I was expecting it to be quite dated and stale but it held up well and kept my interest throughout. The characters were a little stereotypical but I can understand it being so for the time period. I would recommend this to anyone who wants a quick read as it took a few hours and provided some great one liners on Emory's part and some mellow drama to spice up

While reading this I could definitely picture actor Jim Parsons playing Michael (he did in the recent Broadway revival). In a way this story takes us down a short rabbit hole of how some straight people perceive gay men, and how gay men even perceive themselves. Be prepared for a few old movie quotes that some millennials might not get. Otherwise, a brilliant play of its time (late 1960s) and of now.