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Say you wanna dance: 'The Prom' invites LGBTQ collective to the dance floor
The cast and crew of "The Prom" are inviting you to dance, as you are.
Make no mistake, this is a authentic invitation to boogie.
The knock musical, which opened at the Henry Clay Theatre on Friday, tells the difficult story of Emma Nolan, whose Bible-thumping hometown turns against her when she invites her girlfriend to her high school’s prom. When a wash-up, narcissistic group of Broadway actors decides that taking on a cause is their best way to reclaim the public’s adoration, they hijack Emma’s plea to the PTA and transform it into an ego-boosting fiasco.
The show, produced by Pandora Productions and ACT Louisville, is comical, but delicately woven between the laughter is the gut-wrenching truth that so many people in the LGBTQ community never experienced that glittered high institution milestone comfortably, as their true self.
An evening at "The Prom" can adjust that.
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Julie McGuffey, Jason Cooper, Chad Michael Brosky, & Sandra Rivera in The Prom. Photo: CenterStage
The Prom
Book & Lyrics by Chad Beguelin
Book by Bob Martin
Music by Matthew Sklar
Based on an original notion by Jack Viertel
Directed by Erin Silliman
A review by Tory Parker
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Despite it being everywhere lately, including 2 productions in Louisville in the past year, until seeing this opening night, I hadn’t really engaged with The Prom. From the outside, and from the very limited bit of music I’d heard, it felt like it might have graduated from the Dear Evan Hansen academy, with a book and songs written by grown MEN (always men, usually gay) about the exposure of contemporary teenagers, with songs that are lyrically a little shaky, position on top of pop beats, and somehow “going viral” is a major plot point. And after seeing this production of The Prom I can safely say that is all entirely true but with one stark and important difference—I can’t stomach DEH, and I freaking loved The P If you wish to Have a Gay Former Timenote Clockwise from top left: Rainbow Crosswalk (NE Santa Monica Blvd. and San Vincente Blvd.) in West Hollywood, Los Angeles; S. 13th St. and Walnut St. outside of Woody’s Gay Exclude in Philadelphia’s Gayborhood (not just a trope, but the district’s actual nickname); the former site of Outwrite Lesbian and Homosexual Bookstore & Coffeehouse on the right-hand corner of 10th St. and N. Piedmont Ave. in Atlanta; and the S. Castro St.-Market St. intersection in San Francisco’s Castro District. The Simpsons A Cast Full of Queer in real life. It's the part of a major capital where its LGBT+ community either lives or visits to party. Rainbow flags hang from the streetlights, and the streets are lined with gay bars, boutiques, trendy cafes, and overpriced housing. You're likely to run into
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