Tony winner Paolo Szot is an out gay man

...just to fantasize about this beautiful man singing "Some Enchanted Evening" and "This Nearly Was Mine"...directly to me!

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And it's worth it, worth it, worth it!

It's such a great great show -- as people are happily discovering all over again. And being that it's about racism it's timelier than ever. The audience that saw the original production was looking at a musical re-enactment of events many of them had actually participated in only a few years before. So much for musicals being "lightweight diversions." South Pacific is the benchmark toward which Sondheim always aspires.

I saw the Broadway production with the second cast, after Martin and Pinza had left (yes, I'm 61) and it was wonderful. Emile De Becque is a very unusual R & H charater. He's not a simple nice guy like Curly in Oklahoma or a borderlines psychopath like Billy Bigelow in Carousel. And he isn't in a position of Ultimate Power over the heroine like Baron Von Trapp in The Sound of Music. He simply walks up to little Nellie Forbush and sings the most profoundly heartfelt -- and gayest -- lyric ever written by a straight man.

"Some enchanted evening
You may see a stranger,
you may see a stranger
Across a crowded room
And somehow you know,
You know even then
That somewhere you'll see her
Again and again.

Some enchanted evening
Someone may be laughing,
You may hear her laughing
Across a crowded room
And night after night,
As strange as it seems
The sound of her laughter
Will sing in your dreams.

Who can explain it?
Who can tell you why?
Fools give you reasons,
Wise men never try.

Some enchanted evening
When you find your true love,
When you feel her call you
Across a crowded room,
Then fly to her side,
And make her your own
Or all through your life you
May dream all alone.

Once you have found her,
Never let her go.
Once you have found her,
Never let her go."

him being brazilian makes him 15X cooler to me and i dont know who he is. go us brazilians ;-)

So great to hear. Seems like such a sweet guy and has a beautiful voice. I hope you guys keep up on news about him and maybe next year he can add some diversity to the Hot 100 (Brazilian and Opera)

He's got a great voice and I'm happy that he won the Tony. I hope to see him more on Broadway once he's done with South Pacific.

Man, between this guy and Paolo, it's a great time to lust after Brazilian pulchritude!

It's a good thing I've already got some Portuguese under my belt. As it were.

 

 

Read the blog. Love the blog. Whisper bossa nova to the blog.

Wikipedia doesn't say he's gay! *hint hint*

What a toasty stud muffin. The kind of man you point at and say, "I want one of those!"

Thanks so much for researching this, Brian. I think you will find a lot of actors working in the theater are openly gay, but just don't reach the level of fame where anyone ever asks.

A man named Wayman Wong used to do a column called The Leading Men at Playbill.com and he always asked actors about their personal lives like he was interviewing a straight celebrity. Lots of wonderful interviewees, including our favorites John Tartaglia, Cheyenne Jackson, and Christopher Sieber, probably gave their first "out" interviews in that column. They talked about how being gay affected their careers, their husbands if they had them, lots of fun and interesting things.

 If he was doing the column today, I'm sure Wong would have had the scoop on Szot and Daniel Evans ("Sunday in the Park With George"). Thanks for picking up a bit of the slack there.

Wong left the column last year and his replacement just parrots resume details and trivia, so it's a complete waste of time now, but the old interviews are still archived at Playbill.com and are a worth a look even if you don't know all the actors involved. 

 

This may the shortest and gayest post ever for me, but damn not even the chick from South Pacific can touch Liza's. I've officially become a person of a certain age, as that statement would not have come of out my mind even a year ago. It also must be that American popular culture seems to be dominated by Mylie Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers and they are not even half as interesting as Shirley Temple or even the kid from Webster.

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What's the Portuguese word for "Woof!":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSH6oBRw6rw

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Look up "woof!" in a dictionary of any language and chances are you'll find a photo of Paulo Szot.

At the end of my relationships with Brazilian men I have always thought the US should declare war on Brazil, or at least prevent Brazilian men from coming into the country and deport those who are already here. But Mr. Szot is a stunner and talented, so maybe we should allow him to stick around.

He is gorgeous!!

To Triplicate Guy: Thanks for your gracious and incredibly kind comments about my ''Leading Men'' column at Playbill.com. I'm flattered that anyone remembers my four years of interviews with great guys from Broadway and cabaret. Yes, John Tartaglia and Cheyenne Jackson, among a number of others, first ''came out'' in our column. And Chris Sieber gave us the kind of terrific and candid interview you don't usually see on a theater Web site. Thanks for noticing that I didn't do the formula, standard-issue interviews. I was more interested in WHO the performer was, and how he got to be who he is. I asked straight actors about growing up, their wives and/or girlfriends, and how they met them, etc., so I never thought I should treat gay actors any differently. I'm proud to say that Playbill.com told me that my column was the best-read feature on their site at the time, and I'd like to think that that's what readers wanted.

P.S. As for Daniel Evans, he's out, and featured in the new Back Stage. He's in their ''Gay Pride'' issue, with Cheyenne, Robin de Jesus, Leslie Jordan and Francis Jue.