Sentence examples for theater queen from inspiring English sources
"He's the world's greatest straight theater queen," Mr. Weiner said.
When he smiles or giggles, he seems more like your average theater queen".
The man who created him on the page and the stage, Harvey Fierstein, won Tony Awards for both Best Play and Best Actor in 1983, giving daring and triumphant new breadth to the notion of theater queen.
Spanning the four years from freshman "penance hall" to graduation, the play follows three lovable self-proclaimed "nonconformers": Johnny, a sensitive-macho punk; Ben, a flouncing theater queen; and George, a chubby, hapless army brat.
THE success of "Glee" and "American Idol" in the last few years would seem to make Hollywood particularly amenable to the work of Todd Graff, a writer-director who describes himself as "a big old musical theater queen from way back".
A blend of poison pen and love letter to the traditional song-and-dance show, spiked with the backstage knowingness of an obsessive theater queen, has been the formula for hits like "The Producers" (the rakish father of the trend), "Spamalot," "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" and "The Drowsy Chaperone".
Adapted from the ultimate revenge-of-the-nerd novel by Stephen King, "Carrie" (1988) — as theater queens of any gender or orientation know — was one of the gaudiest disasters in Broadway history.
The chorus line of little old ladies and their tapping aluminum walkers; the swastika-wearing pigeons; the prancing theater queens who insist that a show need only "keep it gay" to succeed -- they are all in fine, exquisitely vulgar form.
WALLINGFORD Oakdale Theater The Queen Extravaganza, tribute to Queen.
HUNTINGTON Anything But Silent: Silent Classics With Live Music, live musical accompaniment by Ben Model on the Cinema's Miditzer theater organ: "Queen Kelly" (1929), directed by Erich von Stroheim.
Choreographer Lorin Latarro, who worked on the immersive theater sensation, "Queen of the Night," was brought in to give the cast slick moves, while Jessie Nelson ("I Am Sam") provided the book.
