Yes, last I saw Bruce he was starring as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray. Seeking out the very edges of camp. 
That was intentional.
I was moderately horrified when I learned Bruce was being cast as Edna. (Has he ever done drag before?) Based on his Linda Tripp, I’d love to see what John Goodman could do with the role, though for much lower budget I’d recommend the fellow who does Shirley Q. Liquor/Betty Butterfield (or cast a woman as Edna and a man as Motormouth, who has the ultimate drag queen song {“Big Blonde & Beautiful”} anyway).
Sweetie, if I were a shape changer, would my hair look like this?
Bruce Vilanch is doing “Hairspray”? Last I heard (from the NYT, www.ibdb.com , and other sources), Michael McKean was going to replace Harvey Fierstein.
Vilanch is doing the touring company (take that any way you please…). McKean is replacing Harvey in the Broadway run.
Ahh, thanks for answering, jayjay.
I have to say, Bruce Vilanch without the beard looks disturbingly like every middle-aged wide-bodied butch lesbian I’ve ever known…
Beardless Bruce here.
Interesting capture of the transformation here.
Not that this whole Hairspray tangent isn’t a hijack or anything… :o
All I have to say is that I participated at our school. I think, though, that ours was organized better. No ball-gags or pressure. We wore pink armbands to signify we were being silenced, and we had a booth set up in the lobby that had different pamphlets re: coming out/religion and homosexuality, etc. The people that were there (participating) acted as a support group thing…
However, it had nothing to do with gay-bashing. Just an attention gainer. I didn’t see anyone do this: Day of Silence homepage
It’s still going on. The name changes are a source of perpetual amusement to me. Now (or the last time I checked) it’s the Queer-Straight Alliance. And there’s a whole separate group for lesbians, Lesbian Women on Campus.
checks website… excuse me, they’ve both changed again. Now it’s Queer Women on Campus and the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered Alliance.
Well, inclusion is a good thing. The only things that bother me about that are:
- groups that drop in a "trans"something into the name and don’t actually have any programs or resources or experience (or, sometimes, tolerance) for trans or otherwise genderqueer people;
- failure to come up with a cute acronym;
- the word “lesbigay.”
At the U of AL many of the vocal lesbians associated with gay causes were either majors in or closely affiliated with the Women’s Studies program. At U of AL, the Women’s Studies program is housed in Manly Hall, so upon occasion the lesbian activists were referred to as “the Manly Women”.
[Life of Brian voice]Fucking splitter.[/Life of Brian voice]
Regards,
Shodan
I figured out the lettuce, bacon, and tomato, but what is the “G”?
Gouda.