Straight-Jacket
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Opened Jun 18, 2000
Closed Jul 29, 2000
Opened Jun 18, 2000
Closed Jul 29, 2000
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Writer and director Richard Day's new comedy, Straight-Jacket, focuses on a leading man who marries a studio owner's secretary in order to conceal his sexual identity and retain his starring role in the upcoming film Ben Hur. As the couple moves hilariously through a world of Hollywood glamour, homophobia, and the red scare, the characters joust in a play for power, fame, and their public reputation.
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In the mid-1950s, movie actors could ruin their careers in two easy ways: by publicly declaring (a) their leftist sympathies, or (b) their homosexual tendencies. (It's not so simple anymore--although, in observing certain Oscar winners over the past decade, it seems that the Pink Scare has outlived the Red one by 40 years and counting.)
Straight-Jacket, which recently opened at Playhouse 91, concerns the fictional Guy Stone, a matinee idol who is one of 1955's top box-office draws. He is also one of the most flagrant homosexuals in Tinsel Town. Guy Stone, Rock Hudson--get it? Not that this comedy has much to do with Rock Hudson, or has any other connection to reality. Stone (an engaging J[...]