March 26

Good times at the frat house:

This is beyond moving & poignant:

We Kiss in a Shadow

(from The King and I, Rodgers and Hammerstein 1951)

A song about the secret love between Tuptim (female)

and Lun Tha (male), who fear their love will be discovered

by the King of Siam, to whom Tuptim had been promised.

Here the song is reimagined as a duet between two gay men
of mixed race, performed in a blues style:

Jelani Alladin (left) & Matt Doyle (right)
both openly gay Broadway stars.

We kiss in a shadow, we hide from the moon.

Our meetings are few and over too soon.

We speak in a whisper, afraid to be heard.

When people are near we speak not a word.

Alone in our secret, together we sigh,

For one smiling day to be free

To kiss in the sunlight and say to the sky:

“Behold and believe what you see!

Behold how my lover loves me!”