Bye Bye Birdie with the Gay Men’s Chorus was a lot of fun. It’s such a perfect show for an all-male cast. While some of the female roles were done in drag, most notably Albert’s mother, who was hilarious, some of the women were played as men, including Kim McAfee, who’s a starstruck gay boy, and really, weren’t we all (or still are)?; and Albert’s love interest, Rosie Alvarez, whose full first name, we later find out, is Roosevelt. Cute. Some other audience-pleasing queer touches include Rosie crashing a leather party (instead of a Shriner’s meeting), and Albert announcing their journey west to Multnomah County, Ore., where he can finally become an English teacher, and Rosie can be “Mrs. Albert Peterson, the English teacher’s wife.”
Ah, I can now add Rosie to my list of dream roles… but only if I get to write some hunky leather men into my contract.