Broadway artists celebrate LGBTQIA+ diversity in theater on new album “Place and Time”
Place and Time, a musical celebration of LGBTQ+ diversity in theater, featuring Broadway stars Tituss Burgess, Amber Gray, Telly Leung, Daisy Eagan, and a host of other talents performing songs written by the 2021 Richard Rodgers Award-winning duo.Lyricist Chary, who’s lesbian, and composer Gwinn, who identities as queer and gender-fluid, teamed up while both were in the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at New York University. They’re on a mission to challenge the heteronormativity of a form and industry that many often regard as being “so gay,” but that can still feel unwelcoming to queer voices.“I think that musical theatre, as a genre, as a form, as an expression is very queer,” says Chary.