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Last month at the American Airlines Theatre, many of Broadway’s best gathered to present Broadway Backwards III. The evening featured male singers performing songs traditionally sung by women and women singing tunes written for men. Recent Ritz star Seth Rudetsky hosted the evening, which benefited New York’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender (LGBT) Community Center.
I stumbled across this video of highlights which, at around ten minutes long and featuring thirtysome performers might be a nice break for theatre geeks at work (or at play). The snippets include:
® Andrea McArdle being groped by a gaggle of chorines in “All I Care About Is Love”
® Liz Callaway, in great voice, singing “Pretty Women”
® Kerry Butler singing “When I’m Not Near the Girl I Love”
® Malcolm Gets, handsome as ever, singing “Dancing on the Ceiling”
® Julie Halston, Ann Harada, Charis Leos and Kathryn Kendall in a very funny rendition of “Everybody Ought to Have a Maid”
® Karen Mason belting out “How to Handle a Woman”
® Gary Beach working a little too hard at “Fifty Percent”
® Sierra Bogges and Jessica Lee Goldyn turning Disney upside down with “Kiss the Girl”
® Jose Llana, Gavin Creel and Brook Ashmanskas (pictured) camping it up in “I Want it All” (with a Margaret Cho reference I don’t recall in the original)
® Kate Reindeers and Sarah Litzsinger are TastiSkank, singing about their vajayjays
® Len Cariou singing “Send in the Clowns”
® The betowled Men of Broadway Backwards “Wash That Man” right outta their hair
® The Girls of Spring Awakening, jumping on those chairs in “The Bitch of Living”
® Cheyenne Jackson and Anthony Rapp singing “Suddenly Seymour” with sweet understanding
® Charles Busch longing for “The Music That Makes Me Dance”
® Neil Patrick Harris defying David Burtka to “Take Me or Leave Me”
® Tony Yazbeck and Aaron Lazar dueting in “A Boy Like That/I Have a Love” (a better clip is in here if you can find it)
® Michelle Blakely and Jenn Colella in an interpretation of “Hello Little Girl” that is pure genius
® Lanie Kazan grinding her way through “The Gal That Got Away”
® Titus Burgess bringing down the house in “Maybe This Time”
Video Highlights of Broadway Backwards III
Thanks Eric! I especially loved “Wash that Man” and “The Bitch of Living.” They were hilarious! It sounds like a fun event. If only I lived in New York!
Why won’t this play???
Rick–click on the text “Broadway Backwards III” and it will take you to the page with the video on it.