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Marla Mindelle Is Back, Ridiculously, in The Big Gay Jamboree
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The latter half of the show becomes increasingly preoccupied with the bad career decisions of Jennifer Lopez, as well as a send-up of a fictional J.Lo biomusical that doesn’t not resemble Hell’s Kitchen — all, I assume, because the idea of Stacey being cast in the role of “The Block” (as in “Jenny From the …”) made Mindelle and Parks-Ramage laugh. The Big Gay Jamboree was, originally, a film script she and Parks-Ramage sold in 2019 (to Margot Robbie’s production company, as it turns out) during Mindelle’s time on the West Coast, now ressurected from development hell and brought to life onstage. The Big Gay Jamboree may lack Titanique ’s sense of DIY creativity — it has a Thomas Kinkade–esque set by the ubiquitous design firm dots and tearaway-heavy costumes by Sarah Cubbage — but it retains some of those rough-hewn charms, falling somewhere between a Rusical and a college-thesis project that got out of hand.
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