Katie webber broadway ass4/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Steven Wenslawski (top) and Harvey Fierstein (bossy bottom) Bergmann's were choice cheeks to inaugurate a buns-hun show, and he was one of the performers who really shone this year. Broadway, the latter of which as a great opener. “Take It from the Top” was a sterling opener starring Harvey Fierstein and Callan Bergmann, a one-time Mr. I swear Nick Adams's ass and this tableau could be a Mel Odom illustration.ĭirected by Jerry Mitchell and Nick Kenkel, who choreographed it with Laya Barak, Jim Cooney, Armando Farfan Jr., Peter Gregus, Ryan Lyons, Brice Mousset, Rachelle Rak, Michael Lee Scott, Kellen Stancil and Sidney Erik Wright, the show loosely followed the travails of a wannabe played by Nick Adams, he of the Mario Lopez-threatening biceps.Īdams starts out too shy to be a stripper, but luckily falls in with the wrong crowd and everything works (and comes) out in the end.Īlong the way, the show included 11 tight numbers (it felt super fast this go-round, and I hated the Hammerstein venue as compared to the more spacious and now vanished Roseland), often takes on classic show tunes, always ending with a little more nudity than you might encounter in a locker room.īaby, if Callan's the bottom, I'm the top. It was not unlike waving a turkey at a bunch of starving bums on Thanksgiving and saucily asking, “White meat or dark?” You would think this year's title would mean it was going to be 100% up my alley (I am the original ASSMAN), but I found it to have no more or less tail than past editions, save for its hilariously sexy opening-the curtain lifted to just above waist-level to reveal a bevy of dimpled booties peeking out at the crowd. I have had a lot of readers say they now travel in for the show thanks to the photos I've posted. In reality, since it's a show that happens once a year, seeing photos from it just encourages people to come the following year, and/or to seek out the merch. ![]() I think the rule about photos is a misguided fear that it will bite into the show's revenues. Where we stood, everyone around us had their phones out. I decided to go back because I missed the good time and knew the dancers always seem to like having photos to share, people affiliated with the show “like” them on Instagram, etc. I skipped Broadway Bares last year after getting reamed for taking photos at a Solo Strips, but returned Sunday for Broadway Bares 25: Top Bottoms of Burlesque, the silver-anniversary installment of Jerry Mitchell's unfortunately-still-necessary AIDS charity show that rounds up as many hot and talented chorus boys and girls from Broadway and Broadway-adjacent (and a few who just have roommates on Broadway) to put on a one-night only, two-times only, razzle-dazzle-'em-at-any-cost show. A reader contacted me on Grindr on Sunday morning to say: ![]()
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