‘The Boys in the Band’ Review: Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto Find the Relevance of the Datedness in the New Netflix Version

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There are plenty of dramas that look different with time, but it’s the peculiar fate of “The Boys in the Band,” Mart Crowley’s groundbreaking 1968 play, to have been so buffeted by chan…

, as well as the same director , with Ryan Murphy once again leading the team of producers. Why is this the fifth stage? Viewed at home in the age of Covid, “The Boys in the Band” now looks like an ironic valentine of nostalgia to the days when sitting around a tattered New York apartment with friends, even when they have their claws out, feels like one of the most pleasurable things in the world.

Michael has had his share of sexual adventure, most of it while traveling, but he’s a guilt-ridden Catholic who can’t reconcile the divided parts of himself. For a long time he justified his activities with “Christ, was I drunk last night!” syndrome; now, he’s trying to stay sober and pure. But he’s sitting on a tinderbox of unresolved feelings, and the perfect one to set it off is Harold, the neurotic birthday boy, who turns being uptight about who he is into a strange form of cool.

As long as Michael and Harold are going at each other, which they do even though they’re old friends , “The Boys in the Band” plays like a shot. But the other characters come closer to being Johnny one-notes — or as Emory , the most flaming and childlike among them might put it, Mary one-notes. Yet the actors register.

 

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