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I  saw Ethel Merman in Gypsy twice. On ce on Broadway and once on the road 🛣️ in Boston 
 

This reminds me of a time in my younger days where I hooked up with someone. 
He lived with family but said no problem he was alone for a while etc. got the feeling he was discrete,.not closeted but on the dl. 
Anyway we are hooking up in his room and all was good. I heard a noise like a car door. He runs to check and says oh everything is fine no big. 
When we get done he stays in his room and I walk to my car. Parked right next to my car was what I assume to be a family member possibly older brother sitting in his car. 
Dude gave me a look of total disgust and if looks could kill I would be dead. I felt absolutely so uncomfortable. 

I will check out the article later when I have time. It does seem I know a number of younger sons who are gay, but I also have known plenty of older and middle sons who are the gay ones. Plus, the number of children varies-- youngest of 3, 7, 6. Why was son 3 is one family gay but not son 3 in another?

Are there studies exploring why some brothers turn out to be straight?
Using heterosexuality as the benchmark, from which gay people deviate, is a problem.

I think it needs celebrity names on the marquee to make it successful - just like Midler in 'Gypsy' and Jackman in 'The Music Man'. 

I saw it. I left during intermission. I'm a huge Audra fan, but even that couldn't get me to stay. 

I  saw it with Audra McDonald
 
Very difficult role 
 

The entertainment industry is still limping along since the strikes.  Work simply has not returned. 

I think about this from time to time. It's one of the few (if only) great classical musicals that hasn't been revived in the last 35 years.  
My latest thinking has been Patina Miller as Mame and Leslie Kritzer or Kara Lindsay as Vera Charles.

Did anyone see"Marie Christine"? I am curious what your thoughts were. I have loved the cast recording for years and was recently thinking about the show. The cast recording is such an incredible journey, witnessing this couple plummeting toward doom. But I also know how deceptive a great cast album can be, hiding dramatic imperfections and storytelling sloppiness that sabotage shows on stage.  
In my younger years,  hearing Anthony Crivello as Dante . . . Wow. So incredibly sexy. It still is, though more "life" experience has watered down the effect. I have attached a few pictures of Crivello in the role for historic study.  

A fruend and I once went through a McDonald's drive-through in a sort of sketchy part of town at about 1:00 in the morning.  Between placing my order and arriving at the window,  I decided I wanted a shake.  When we pulled up,  I asked,  "Can I get one more thing?" The server's face eyes widdened, and his expression was saying,  "Oh, no." I quickly added,  "Can I get a chocolate shake?" to put him at ease. Clearly,  for three seconds, he thought I was going to rob him. I guess we can't understand someone else's perspective and their fears in all situations
 
Was the guy overreacting? Probably.  Should you have told him? Probably. But what can you do but apologize and communicate it to other providers? Your intentions were good. 

A fruend and I once went through a McDonald's drive-through in a sort of sketchy part of town at about 1:00 in the morning.  Between placing my order and arriving at the window,  I decided I wanted a shake.  When we pulled up,  I asked,  "Can I get one more thing?" The server's face eyes widdened, and his expression was saying,  "Oh, no." I quickly added,  "Can I get a chocolate shake?" to put him at ease. Clearly,  for three seconds, he thought I was going to rob him. I guess we can't understand someone else's perspective and their fears in all situations
 
Was the guy overreacting? Probably.  Should you have told him? Probably. But what can you do but apologize and communicate it to other providers? Your intentions were good. 

I know this post will be of limited value because this escort operated on the DL so only clients who hired him would know of him, but I met a guy off a Craigslist posting about 20 years ago who was a university student who worked as an escort during school breaks.  I saw him several times over a period of a couple of years and enjoyed every thing about him.  I didn't always hire guys that much younger than me (I was in my early 40s at the time), but I definitely hired a number of guys of similar age.  After all these years he still stands out in my mind as one of the cutest and most fun I had the pleasure to be with.  I don't know whether anyone else on this board knew him; when I've posted about him in the past, I have never seen a reply that indicates anyone else here knew him.  He used the name Sean, his family lived somewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area because that's where I saw him during his school breaks, and he attended university in southern California.

I’ve had this happen. I think I’ve written about it previously but I’ll mention it again here because it’s relevant.
I did an outcall one time to a client and his young daughter was with him when he answered the door. In fact we used the room she had been playing in for the massage. The client had intended we use a garage (integral to the house, a townhouse over 3 stories) but it wasn’t suitable so he moved the session to the ground floor play / tv room. As I was setting up the table he asked her to “go upstairs to mummy while daddy has his massage”….
Once she was gone I checked with him that he understood the nature of the service, as in we’d both be naked and it would include sexual activity and he confirmed all ok. He’d clearly seen my advertising etc so couldn’t have been in doubt but given his wife and daughter were upstairs and knew he was having a massage I did wonder…
What’s worse is he didn’t even lock the door and during the session I could hear them upstairs. I asked him if this was ok and he was adamant we’d not be disturbed.
I didn’t meet the wife, or daughter again fortunately as I think it would be even worse to see them afterwards. The client behaved like it was all routine…maybe it was a turn on for him because it certainly didn’t seem to inhibit him…he was hard as soon as he got naked. 
I really don’t mind if there’s others in an adjacent room. I’m also fine if they know what’s going on. I’ve done live shows and workshops including having full sex and things like being a demo model for the use of sex toys so it’s not a problem to me. I also have clients who are married and they both have massages from me while the other one watches.
However in every situation it’s been agreed beforehand. It’s just polite and respectful to ask, and of course some situations such as the one above where I knew his daughter was upstairs are very disconcerting. He should have told me that might be the case when booking. 
I think that for most people they want discretion and privacy in such situations. If you as a client have any circumstances where your place isn’t going to be private then it’s best to let your provider know then he can decide. The default expectation both ways is of privacy. 


 

Contrary to above comments, I have found the stream room consistently "active" the last few months, at all times of day. No one straight is back there. 

I recently saw Simpson guest-starring in an old sitcom. It was a fresh reminder of what a waste of a life.  He had such talent,  looks, and opportunity.

I recently saw Simpson guest-starring in an old sitcom. It was a fresh reminder of what a waste of a life.  He had such talent,  looks, and opportunity.

She was quite right for Gypsy.  Even Laurents agreed and he was a gigantic, pedantic pain in the ass.
I saw her do it multiple times on Broadway and at City Center.  It was epic, every performance.

Frank's shows aren't horrible, just schmaltzy.  I can handle that as long as they're cast with singers who can make me forget how asinine the lyrics are.
Linda Eder is one of those singers.  She elevated his material.

I guess she was right for "Gypsy,"   but I don't think Ethel Merman would have agreed. I would have agreed with Merman
Someone would have to pay me to   see aFrank Wildhoorn  musical 

Ok....videos please. 

Pics please...let's see how well a half pill works. 😜