Wednesday, April 23, 2014
He's a smash
I can quit holding my breath for Neil Patrick Harris.
He is an over the top smash hit in the show
A musical adaptation of the John Cameron Mitchell movie.
I am a great fan of NPH as he is fondly known to us gays. And maybe others. But he is OUR hero.
He came out when he did not have to. He famously married his life partner. They adopted kids.
This guy is a fabulous human being on top of his talent.
And he was a kid star who did not go off the rails but stayed the difficult path and has arrived.
And, more, he has just arrived in a role that hardly shows him as a butch straight man.
Hedwig is a messy drag queen with a messy story and it is not the kind of play where playing safe can work.
The review is extremely generous to Mr. Harris and I am sure he deserves it. There is a special hell for aspiring stars in the NYTimes and it is in the theater review section.
Harris has managed to traverse the difficult path over the burning flames and arrived on the other side. A bona fide Broadway star. And a gay dad.
Labels: broadway, gay identity
