Towel boys:
Muscle up!
Torch singer (Judy who?):
Andrew Rannells
The Man That Got Away
(A Star Is Born: 1954)
Music: Harold Arlen
Lyrics: Ira Gershwin
Openly gay Broadway star Andrew Rannells
has written a memoir that chronicles
his struggle to attain his dream
of appearing on Broadway.
Too Much Is Not Enough
A Memoir of Fumbling
Toward Adulthood
The unvarnished truth:
Born in Omaha, talent to spare, ambition,
all-boys Catholic prep school,
kissy priests, bad dates, unemployment,
bad sex, great sex, stalkers, straight crushes,
jobs from hell, penury, voice overs, dinner theater,
college dropout, chorus boy.
Both tragic and hilarious, this memoir stops at age 26
when he realizes his childhood dream
of appearing on Broadway:
as a member of the chorus in Hairspray (Rannells is now 40).
272 pages, published two weeks ago.
Your blogger anticipates a Volume Two.
Fame would not come until later:
The Book of Mormon, Girls, Black Monday,
Falsettos, The Boys in the Band,
Hamilton.
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