shouldn't he be referred to as a dancer now... and never an actor, ya dig?

I will never look like these guys, sadly. It's either because I'm straight or I drink too much. Take your pick.

Just another ploy to beef up the audience...
ba-dum-dum.

Sure, but who plays the "tits and ass" girl? (What, no one cares? Oh, now I understand....)

But I hear a lot of the audience for Broadway shows is also male.

Why would they want men to attract men? I just don't get it!

Conversely, somebody on that messageboard whose initials are DataLounge said they went to see "Legally Blonde" (why? I dunno, there's a reason it's an anonymous board) and they said many of the women in the belly-revealing outfits were a bit flabby.

Thank you, Gawker, for hearing my cries yesterday. If you want to keep your base readership happy and stay competitive with D-listed, you need to feature a semi-nekked hunk every day, no matter what journalistic pretext you must invent to do it. There is precedent -- that British paper and its Page 3 girls.

@the cajun boy: He forgot to mention that Mario is doing Nick. Isn't he?

By any chance is this restaging of Chorus Line going to include a scene in which a hairy former Marine bodybuilder douses Adams and Lopez with mineral oil and then forces them to engage in a whole lot of homosexual activity?

I just think it's important that musical theater liberate itself from the conventions and cliches that prevent it from really speaking to today's audience.

@the cajun boy: Oh thanks! Adding.

@Hamud Ibn Hamud:

I'm sensing a motif in your oeuvre. Not unlike Bergman and his ticking clocks.

So I guess this means that David Archuletta's inevitable Broadway career is doomed from the start. Or will he live on in the title role of the all-male revival of Annie, tentatively titled Manny?

It doesn't even matter how buff he is because the director/Zack spends the majority of the play offstage. (I had to suffer through this show once. It's 2.5 hours long and there's no intermission! Some of us have small bladders, Chorus Line producers.)

@EleanorRigby: Movies are 2 1/2 hours long all the time. I have a small bladder, too, but I don't know why plays have to be broken up more than movies, except that maybe attention spans are harder to sustain when it's actual people in front of you.

@bytememehard: I thought that Nick was a top?

@Richard: i actually meant to send that to you yesterday but it slipped my mind. just trying to be service-y, you know.

@SurplusJ: yes, but 2.5 hour long movies are either a. good enough to ignore your bladder or b. even if they're not, there's not an obvious break in the acts. i think cassie's solo should serve as an intermission because it's when the rest of the cast rests anyway (and the actress I saw as Cassie was sub-par at best). intermissions in live-action shows are just as much for the cast as the audience, no?

As Jack McFarland said, "Acting is attracting."

Ah, lest we forget how much Slater loves to kick out the jams:

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Um, I'll take two of Nick Adams. To go? Pretty please?

I wonder if Craig Stevens will be appearing any of these productions.

@Colonel Mustard: TWO? Who do you think you are, Conbon or something?

Spencer ftw, since he's the only one who looks like a human being, not a live-action manga character/genetically engineered porn star.

Nick Adams suffers from serious gayface.

Fine and good but let's see the jazz hands.

@SeeingI: True, once the hair is out of his face, it's puppy-dog-geigh. Still pretty nice though...

Mario will make Nick his bitch anyway.