The Temperamentals
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SHOW INFORMATION
CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 28, 2010
Closed May 23, 2010
Opened Feb 28, 2010
Closed May 23, 2010
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Running Time:
2hr. 15min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 15min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
The Temperamentals tells the story of two men - the communist Harry Hay and the Viennese refugee and designer Rudi Gernreich - as they fall in love while building the first gay rights organization in the United States pre-Stonewall. The play weaves together the personal and political to tell a relatively unknown chapter in gay history. It explores the love between two complex men, as their impossible dream of forming such an unheard of organization becomes a reality in this perilous, unpredictable world. It is an intimate portrayal of the men who created history and the epic struggles they overcame. The characters consist of the actual men who founded the Mattachine Society (Harry Hay, Rudi Gernreich, Chuck Rowland, Bob Hull, and Dale Jennings), as well as other prominent figures of the time in Hollywood and the film industry as well as the world of fashion.
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RE:Discount tickets?!?
I am so excited to see him in this! I totally came across a discount offer for the off-Broadway opening! Its only $20 for previews!! I love Michael Urie and am totally going!!
DISCOUNT OFFER 1:
PREVIEW PERFORMANCES FEBRUARY 18th ? FEBRUARY 27th WHILE SUPPLIES LAST:
$19.52 Reg. Price: $65.00
HOW TO ORDER:
1. VISIT BroadwayOffers -dot- com and use code TEPREV12
2. CALL 212 947-8844 and mention code TEPREV12
3. BRING a printout of this discount to New World Stages at 340 West 50th Street
DISCOUNT OFFER 2:
PERFORMANCES FEBRUARY 18th ? MAY 9th
$49.50 Reg. Price: $65.00
HOW TO ORDER:
1. VISIT BroadwayOffers -dot- com and use code TEOFFER110
2. CALL 212 947-8844 and mention code TEOFFER110
3. BRING a printout of this discount to New World Stages at 340 West 50th Street
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Limit 10 per customer. All prices include $1.50 facility fee. Subject to availability. Additional Blackout dates may apply.
Reviewed by the.temperamentals
on Friday, Jan 22nd, 2010
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{Editor's Note: This is a slightly revised version of TheaterMania's previous review of The Temperamentals, which played at the Barrow Group Theater.}
With The Temperamentals, now at New World Stages, Jon Marans has used his dramatizing wiles to write an instructive and consistently amusing lesson in gay studies by focusing on the seminal if now forgotten Mattachine Society. Indeed, this is the rare docudrama that succeeds at everything it gallantly sets out to accomplish.
The group, which was founded in 1950 -- a time when gay men referred to themselves as "temperamentals" in a manner not unlike men in Oscar Wilde's late Victorian England who wore green carnations to signal each other --[...]