Big and gay
Like many things that can be described as big and gay, The Big Gay Jamboree owes much to Céline a full year—and in fits and starts for a stretch of time before that—Marla Mindelle. She would walk through Central Park every day, and she would cry. Ten years ago, Mindelle, who is 40, left musical theater.
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These LGBTQ+ players made queer history while competing on Big Brother over the years. They had a shared love of old Hollywood musicals, and thought, if we like these musicals so much, maybe we should write one. It had gotten into the hands of Robbie and her production company, Lucky Chap, and they loved it.
And so they wrote the first version of The Big Gay Jamboreein which a modern woman wakes up to find herself trapped inside an old-fashioned musical and must endear herself to the townspeople—all various versions of Rodgers and Hammerstein archetypes—in order to, through the power of song and rousing choreography, find her way back to real life.
Her name and her projects carry weight, along with a promise of the kind of material and humor once ignored that could be commercially successful. From there, The Big Gay Jamboree was born.
The show originated out of a drunken conversation with her friend, Constantine Rousouli. It was unique in the sense that it was this tiny thing. No one tells you how hard it is to say goodbye to your baby. He made all the props.
And it becomes this huge hit. She had to. The show earned a cult following that morphed into a mainstream obsession, leading to its transfer from a theater space in the basement under a closed Gristedes grocery store to a bonafide off-Broadway theater near Union Square, where it continues to extend its run.
The day after Mindelle clocked Barbie herself at the Titanique performance, an email appeared in her inbox.
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But then doing it for a year and being tired and saying that I need to move on…no one really tells you what that experience is like. I love this show. Their other friend, Tye Blue, who they knew through performing musical adaptations of movies like Cruel Intentions at dinner theaters, loved the idea and would end up producing and directing.
Are you working on anything else? This email is the kind of kismet that, well, people write musicals about. Margot Robbie certainly thinks it will. Update: Due to illness, opening night has been postponed to Oct. The show is a continuation of the path that Titanique set her on.
The Titanìque co-creator and star's new Off-Broadway musical is The Big Gay Jamboree, now playing at the Orpheum Theatre and set to officially open October 1. Connie was a gay wizard. No one else is gonna get it.