‘The Boys in the Band’ Review: Nine Angry Men
Fifty years after its premiere, Mart Crowley’s black comedy about a group of gay friends who spend an evening sniping at one another comes to Broadway.
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Fifty years ago, “The Boys in the Band,” Mart Crowley’s blacker-than-black comedy about a group of gay friends who spend an evening clawing at one another’s scabs, opened off Broadway and became the talk of Manhattan. After running for 1,001 performances, it was turned by William Friedkin into a movie that starred the entire original cast, one of the finest films ever made of a contemporary play. But many members of the rising generation of young gay people thought it impolitic for Mr. Crowley to have dramatized...