VIDEO: Watch Joe Mantello Explain How He Brought THE BOYS IN THE BAND to Life on Screen!
The film airs on Netflix today, September 30th.
By: Nicole Rosky Sep. 30, 2020
The boys are back! Today, September 30, the cast of the Tony-winning The Boys is the Band is reassembled on Netflix for a new film adaptation of Mart Crowley's masterpiece, helmed by Joe Mantello.
"If you're fortunate, every once and a while a project like The Boys in the Band comes around, that is creatively stimulating, important to the world, and a whole hell of a lot of fun." explains Mantello, who returned to direct the film directly following his work on the play. "It's a reminder of why we do what we do, and when it works, how well it works."
watch as he explains even more about the steps he took in translating the story from the stage to the screen.
Reprising their roles from the 2018 Broadway production are Matt Bomer (White Collar), Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory), Zachary Quinto (Heroes), Andrew Rannells (Girls), Charlie Carver (Teen Wolf), Brian Hutchison (Madam Secretary), Michael Benjamin Washington (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), Robin de Jesús (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), and Tuc Watkins (Desperate Housewives) will all reprise their roles from the 2018 Broadway production for the Netflix film.
Mart Crowley's groundbreaking 1968 play, The Boys in the Band, centers on a group of gay men who gather in a NYC apartment for a friend's birthday party. After the drinks are poured and the music turned up, the evening slowly exposes the fault-lines beneath their friendships and the self-inflicted heartache that threatens their solidarity. A true theatrical game-changer, The Boys in the Band helped spark a revolution by putting gay men's lives onstage -- unapologetically and without judgement - in a world that was not yet willing to fully accept them.
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