Director Joe Mantello Delivers An All-Star ‘The Boys In The Band’ To Netflix & The 21st Century: Here, He Talks How, Why And The Uncanny Instincts Of Producer Ryan Murphy – Q&A
Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticSPOILER ALERT: This interview contains crucial plot details about Netflix’s The Boys in the Band filmMuch has changed in the two years since director Joe Mantello was readying his revival of The Boys in the Band, Mart Crawley’s 1968 landmark of gay theater, for a 2018 Broadway audience. The all-star cast – Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer, Andrew Rannells, Tuc Watkins, Michael Benjamin Washington, Robin de Jesús, Charlie Carver and Brian Hutchison – would go a long way in generating interest, as would the involvement of producer Ryan Murphy, but questions of relevance had dogged Crowley’s pre-Stonewall Boys for years.