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‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’ Review: Groundbreaking Musical Fetes a Teen Drag Queen’s Coming Out

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Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticUnlike most of the kids in his class, 16-year-old Jamie New knows what he wants to be when he grows up: a drag queen.

And unlike most of the fabulous aspiring female impersonators who’ve strutted on-screen before him, he has surprisingly few obstacles in his way.

Jamie has an understanding mom, a supportive best friend and a school full of closed-minded students who don’t take much to come around, which makes this glittery big-screen adaptation of 2017’s well-liked West End tuner an unusually festive affair. “Everybody’s Talking About Jamie” is to queer teens what “High School Musical” was to, well, their more closeted peers: an upbeat, be-yourself pep rally for self-questioning young adult audiences..

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