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WAKEFIELD POOLE

Boys in the Sand (1971) Bijou (1972) Wakefield Poole’s Bible (1973) Moving! (1974) Take One (1977)

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RIP, Mort Crowley, the scribe behind #TheBoysInTheBand, the groundbreaking 1968 play depicting #GayLife. Originally intended only to run for five nights, the play ran for over 1,000 performances, and was brought to the silver screen in 1970 by #WilliamFriedkin. [On a more prurient note, the movie would inspire the title of 1971’s #BoysInTheSand, #WakefieldPoole’s landmark gay pornographic film starring #CaseyDonovan, that is widely considered to be the first such film to receive mainstream credibility.] A beautifully staged revival of THE BOYS IN THE BAND (directed by #JoeMantello and produced by @MrRyanMurphy) featuring an incredible cast of openly-gay actors ran in 2018 to honor the play’s fiftieth anniversary, and received the 2019 TONY for #BestRevivalOfAPlay. A film version (again by Messr.s Mantello and Murphy) is currently in production for @Netflix, featuring the same cast. Not only did Crowley’s play contain one of my mother’s all-time favorite lines (MICHAEL: Let’s do this again real soon. HAROLD: Yeah, how about a year from Shavuos?), but Crowley got the title from a line from the 1954 remake of #AStarIsBorn. As he once told his pal, #DominickDunne (who produced the 1970 film), “It’s that line…when #JamesMason tells a distraught #JudyGarland, ‘You’re singing for yourself, and the boys in the band.’” . . #GetIntoIt #MortCrowley #Playwrite #TheBoysInTheBand #PreStonewall #GayCanon #RestInPeace (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9hxGZ2FlSh/?igshid=1icrjzoo2tlga

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Boys in the Sand (1971) // dir. Wakefield Poole

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Boys in the Sand (1971) // dir. Wakefield Poole

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Wakefield Poole’s Bible (1973) // dir. Wakefield Poole

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Moving! (1974) // dir. Wakefield Poole

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Boys in the Sand (1971) // dir. Wakefield Poole

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Boys in the Sand (1971) // dir. Wakefield Poole Bijou (1972) // dir. Wakefield Poole Moving! (1974) // dir. Wakefield Poole Take One (1977) // dir. Wakefield Poole

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Boys in the Sand (1971) // dir. Wakefield Poole

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Boys in the Sand (1971) // dir. Wakefield Poole

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Moving! (1974) // dir. Wakefield Poole

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Boys in the Sand (1971) // dir. Wakefield Poole

A Gift (1971) // dir. Wakefield Poole, Ed Parente

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Bijou (1972) // dir. Wakefield Poole

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Bijou (1972) // dir. Wakefield Poole

What’s Love? (1987) // dir. Bill Cable, Carlos Tobalina

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Bijou (1972) // dir. Wakefield Poole

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Bijou (1972) // dir. Wakefield Poole