Podcast: On 'Keith Price's Curtain Call,' the Cast of the Upcoming Actors Fund Benefit Performance of WHEN PIGS FLY

FABULOUS NEWS, The Actors Fund will present a one-night benefit concert of When Pigs Fly, featuring the cast from the recently canceled production.

I went to the major press event for the show and managed to secure some fab interview moments with the entire cast and some of the creatives.

As many members of the LGBT rejoiced at the return of NBC's Will & Grace last year, some theater lovers were equally if not more excited at the announcement of the revival of Howard Crabtree's WHEN PIGS FLY. While both of these shows debuted in the same year, I have to admit that I was honestly MORE excited to hear that a small piece of LGBT theatrical history was returning to the stage. Unfortunately due to issues with financing back in October, the show's run was cancelled, and a generation of theater goers, both hetero and LGBT, missed the opportunity to laugh and learn about some of the joys and pains of being in the LGBT population in America.

In its time, Howard Crabtree's WHEN PIGS FLY, tried to inject some satirical humor in the discourse about the state of the LGBT population in America at the time, like WILL & GRACE's intention. The only difference to me is that eventually Will & Grace's impact lost steam once it became so popular to the masses. It seemed to say that if we, as members of the LGBT population, can make America feel comfortable enough to laugh with us, then maybe they can be more tolerant of us, and perhaps see us as human. Some of that may be true, but who wants to simply be "tolerated"?

In any case, I loved meeting that cast, and I still LOVE Harold Crabtree's WHEN PIGS FLY. I was beyond excited to see that within the cast, the addition of Frank Viveros, unlike the original production, shows that there is just a little bit more room for ALL of us under the rainbow. The public face of LGBT has changed tremendously in the last 20 years to include people who look like me, too.

To the cast and creatives that took time out to chat with me, Mark Waldrop, Jacob Hoffman, Frank Viveros, Bob Mackie, Denis Jones, Taylor Crosure, Jordan Ahnquist, and Brian Charles Rooney, I thank you so much for making an old queen happy, albeit brief.

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