TheStranger.com – by Adrian Ryan
ACT’s Bipartite, Very Gay Noel Coward Extravaganza
Are you undemanding, prune-stuffed, and desperately pleated? Are you over 10 million years old? Have you personally blue-birded over the White Cliffs of Dover, or gone down on Montgomery Clift? Are you an affected Anglophile, a cockney flower girl, a zombie Oscar Wilde, or gayer than goose eggs from ganders? If so, you’re one lucky old gay bastard, because there’s a chance in hell that you might really enjoy this crap. And by “this crap” I mean the big “gay extravaganza” at ACT, which amounts to a Noël Coward revue called A Marvelous Party, followed by a late-night drag-queen-rich cabaret called Pinkaboo! The Closeted American Songbook. Allow me to elaborate.