Musical Theatre and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic

The following video contains homophobic language regarding drug use and discussions of HIV and AIDS. Viewer discretion is advised. Scientists at the National Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta today released the results of a study showing that the lifestyle of some male homosexuals has triggered an

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. Federal officials in health they consider it an epidemic on May 27, 2020 larry kramer passed away the renowned writer and activist I am ashamed to say that I was not very aware of his life and career before his death inspired me to delve into who he was in greater detail and, Honestly, I'm amazed.

He was a force of nature. He was a writer from Connecticut who found success as a screenwriter in Hollywood in the mid-1960s and 1970s. His most notable work is his. During this time he was a screenwriter for the new

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version of Frank Capra's The Lost Horizon. This remake is considered one of the worst films ever made, but it made Kramer a lot of money. With that money came the freedom to dedicate himself to projects closer to his heart. His work began. Incorporating his experiences as a gay man first in the form of the play Sissy's Scrapbook and then in the form of a novel with a super incendiary name, the novel was super controversial both for its title and for its description of drug use and the promiscuous sex. in the New York gay community although it was also his biggest success up to that point and with that success came a reputation for being confrontational and explosive, especially in regards to his activism, eventually in the early 1980s. , many of Kramer's friends were getting sick and showing signs of mouth ulcers skin rashes fatigue and more doctors believed that these illnesses could be related and more research needed to be done on this new type of cancer that affects gay men.

As we can all imagine, Kramer remembers it being super distressing when he saw friends and lovers literally carrying his lovers. in his arms from doctor to doctor from hospital to hospital begging have you heard of anything that might even remotely resemble it? This experience was not unique to him. By the end of 1981, doctors had identified 337 cases of mysterious illnesses between 1981 and 1986, however, that number skyrocketed to more than 16,000 cases in the United States alone. Doctors identified it as a targeted illness. to the immune system the disease was further stigmatized once doctors learned that it was transmitted through bodily fluids.

The initial outbreak in North America was centered in New York and affected two main demographic groups: intravenous drug users and homosexual people who They had sexual relations without a condom, the latter representing such a significant percentage of the total cases that doctors and the media identified it for the first time as a disease that mainly affected homosexual people; Before long they called it gay-related immunodeficiency. and a less homophobic term had been claimed: HIV for the virus itself and help for the late manifestation of the virus that was killing those affected. I thought it would be worth talking to a member of one of the affected communities, so join me from Toronto. it's my friend ray hogg ray hogg is currently one of the associate artistic directors of the neptune theater in halifax he is the associate artistic director of the

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theater company in toronto and is the founding artistic director of the prime moves theater company let's start in general with um If you want to talk about any lived experiences you've had with the HIV and AIDS epidemic, I was born in the late '70s, which is around the time that some of those early cases were happening in the US. , 1981 is some kind of year, although there is evidence that it dates back to the 1920s, so 81,270 cases were reported.

I'm a kid in Toronto, blissfully unaware, entering second grade. I'm hearing rumors about this gay disease. Now, suddenly, there are like 3,000 cases that Greed has ruined our ability to have perspective, I think in the early days of the AIDS crisis, because of how quickly it became widespread, there are also much better reports, we have a lot better access to information, but this is a staggering number of people, let's say 3000 people and nobody knows it. which is and about half of them die, so 99 is when I have my awakening and I go out, I meet my then boyfriend and now husband and even within that monogamous state it would be like if you fell, if you just flew right. then okay, we shouldn't, in my life it has gone from being a death sentence to something that is undetectable, which is kind of a miracle, the most profound effect for me personally was not so much, it is not an experience of the law .

Definitely an impact of going through those years of puberty and early adulthood, the time when you have a sexual awakening, fear of dying in response to the decimation of your community and the complete lack of response from the government. Kramer and several others formed the gay men's health crisis. in 1982. the gmhc was an organization dedicated to raising funds and providing support to people living with hiv in the new york area, however kramer became frustrated by the group's political apathy and they, in turn, They were frustrated by the confrontational way in which he was campaigning. As a result, his actions were considered too militant for the gmhc and he was expelled from the organization in 1983.

So this sucks for Kramer. He has lost friends, colleagues and romantic partners to this disease. There is no support or recognition from any level of government and now he has been removed from the very organization he helped start a real conversation for me, that would have been the end of the story right there but Kramer continued to be a major player in activism against hiv and lgbtq rights for the rest of his life, he wrote novels that he published. Essays, he even discovered that a second HIV activism organization called Act Up. At first he wrote a little play called The Normal Heart.

Technically it is fiction. Kramer is open with the fact that it is a fairly accurate autobiography of his life at the time using a surrogate author. named Ned Weeks, he recognizes how intense his methods were and the damage they caused. He criticizes the gmhc for exactly the opposite by being too passive. He criticizes New York Mayor Edward Koch for being so slow to respond to this major health crisis. and expresses the pain of losing a romantic partner to a deadly virus that most people don't even recognize it's honest it's incredibly brave and heartbreaking it's possibly Kramer's best-known piece and for good reason Kramer used live theater To help his community begin to process the trauma of the HIV epidemic, he not only used the play as a call to action, The Normal Heart was one of the first shows to address the difficult topic of HIV and AIDS and inspired a line of successors that some have been introspective, some have been as real as it gets and others have been downright ridiculous today, however, I want to look at three of the shows that had the most significant impact on American theater from the standpoint critical, commercial, possibly even cultural, angel falsettos in America and rent, my hope is that this will provide insight into how art can be used to respond to our current public health crisis and how we can fight the injustices that They are currently abundant in our world, here we go, William Finn is a strange character, he is a composer and lyricist who was raised on. a conservative Jewish home and his musicals are often very personal and autobiographical, which in this case means they explore themes of being Jewish and gay in contemporary America, so he is just beginning his career in the late 70s when he writes the first of what would eventually be three. one-act musicals these musicals end up being known as the marvin trilogy after its main character debuts in pants in 1979 and introduces us to marvin, as well as his wife, whose name is not mentioned in this show, and to his son during the course of the peace he remembers. past romantic relationships, accepts her bisexuality and eventually leaves her family to start a relationship with a man, to be honest it's not memorable except that it featured a really nice song called "set those candles" and a young Mary Testa just kicking it up now. well, very personal, easy to summarize, great elevator pitch regardless, it wasn't that well received commercially, he said there's enough potential there for finn to write a sequel to the falsetto march, it was written in 1981 and It's much more complicated, we have five characters, Marvin. his now ex-wife whose name is revealed to be trina his fellow whizzer his son jason and a notably unethical psychiatrist named mendel from there the piece unfolds as a particularly neurotic curb your enthusiasm episode begins with jews number four in a room complaining and it continues at a fast pace from there Marvin wants a close-knit family with Trina Jason and Whizzer Marvin and Trina go to see Mendel the psychiatrist a lot and finally Mendel falls in love with Trina and starts dating her Jason is behaving bad because All the adults are being tools, but wait, Jason actually responds well to Whizzer and that makes Trina jealous.

Mendel proposes to Trina, which makes Marvin freak out because he still has a fair amount of luggage, so they fight and Marvin punches Trina, causing Whizzer to break up. with Marvin because what the hell, Marvin, that's practically the end, we end with Marvin assuring Jason that even though everything is a disaster, they will always have Jason's back, plus it's all sung, there's no dialogue, just songs, it sounds a lot alike A lot to say the music is brilliant the characters have flawed nuances and their actions have realistic repercussions and even more so it's all fucking funny as Hysterically Funny sometimes received significantly more positive reception than Trousers and in 1981 even won an Outer Prize from the critics circle for best off-Broadway play, the third and final part of the Marvin trilogy did not premiere until almost 10 years later, in 1989.

Now remember that HIV was first reported clinically in 1981, so which at the time wasn't really on many people's radar in 1989 was devastating just so we have the timeline in our heads falsetto premieres in 1989 but is set in 1981 just a year or two after the march of falsettos now the plot hasn't gotten any less complicated ready, well here we go whizzer and marvin are still separated after the events of the previous play mendel and trina are still together marvin and trina are relatively cool now that they both continue raising jason together jason se is preparing for her bar mitzvah that's really important It's also important to know that we have two new characters, Charlotte is a doctor, Cordelia is a catering company, they are Marvin's neighbors and they are lesbians with each other.

The word lesbians, there is a funny scene from a baseball game where everyone is watching. Jason plays baseball and comments on how bad he is at it. Whizzer appears because he and Jason actually became very close during the events of March and thus Wizard and Marvin end up reconciling. There are many fun scenes where various combinations of characters argue over the bar. mitzvah arguing about non-bar mitzvah things and doing 80s things like aerobics and playing racquetball and then Whizzer gets sick. It's a plot twist that comes out of nowhere and is devastating. The last quarter of the play focuses on how this affects each person.

The character, including the wizard, this up to this point fractured group comes together to support the wizard as his health declines. Jason even decides to have his bar mitzvah in the hospital room so the wizard can be there and then the wizard dies. Marvin sings one last song to the magician. comforted by the embodiment of his spirit and the play ends, his incredible falsetto land was received much better than the other two with its off-Broadway run winning major awards such as Best Off-Broadway Musical from the Outer Circle of Critics a year later, falsetto march and falsetto land were combined into a two-act musical called falsettos that opened on Broadway in 1992.

It had a neat little run of just under 500 performances and earned a bunch of Tony nominations and a couple of important victories since then. has had a beautiful resurgence in 2016 and a national tour, there is a lot to love in this piece, first of all, finn's music is dense and fun, it smells like the mid 70s, before finn had influences from stephen sondheim and Marvin Hamlisch. On its sleeves, on top of that, is the orchestrator, a young upstart named Michael Sturobin Sterobin follows in the footsteps of Jonathan Tunic, the famous orchestrator of Sondheim and Hamlish, who had a major influence on the sound of musical theater in the mid-70s and 80.

Hear a close-knit family from falsettos,Then listen to the little things they do together from the Sondheim musical company and you'll hear the influences on both the composition and the orchestration as clear as the plot itself is just as impressive, the first two-thirds of the work are deeply personal. From parts of Finn's own experience we have themes of gay identity, obviously, but also Jewish identity, divorce and relationship abuse, all of these are explored through our adult caste, but they are also explored through the lens of Jason , the child affected by the often selfish behavior of the adults around him, then this story about dysfunctional family dynamics explodes into an exploration of how a family is blindsided by an AIDS diagnosis by taking two-thirds of the play to allow us, as an audience, spending time with this family. allows us to be shaken along with the characters by the magician's diagnosis and eventual death.

As with the rest of the works we will explore here, the falsetto generates empathy and compassion for a community that urgently needs it, especially when it comes to making Faced with the stigma of a politicized disease, until now we have talked about two works that keep the story small, both are very personal and each is based on realism while humanizing the effects that the virus had on the lgbtq plus community, both criticized the lack of government response to AIDS and they do it through the lens of an individual or a family Angels in America is a pseudo-Brechtian pseudo-historical magical realism fairy tale, it lasts eight hours, so Angels in America is the name general of two plays by playwright Tony Kushner Millennium Approaches and Perestroika Millennium Approaches premiered in 1991 and Peristrica followed in 1993.

Both are presented as complete pieces when performed alone, which they are most of the time because both still last four hours. long but together they form a huge story what is the story well actually there are five stories that happen simultaneously story one roy cohn based on the human idiot of the same name is a republican lawyer who was a major player in the McCarthy trials in the decade 1950's He is a very powerful man in American politics He is also a homophobe A closeted gay man and a ball of human garbage in every aspect He is struggling to hide the fact that he is dying of AIDS and is being haunted by the ghost by ethel rosenberg ethel was a woman he helped sentenced to death in one of the most controversial and important cases of the McCarthy era ends up dying disabled and only this story is largely based on real events look it up at some point he was a guy real and it sucked story two joe pitt is an employee in cohn's office he is a republican mormon he is not based on a real person and he is also a closeted gay man.

Roy likes him and offers him a job in Washington. Joe struggles to accept it because his wife Harper is struggling with severe mental illness, as a result she becomes agoraphobic and addicted to valium due to this addiction, she hallucinates a lot during the course of the play. Joe rejects the job offer and begins an affair with a man named Lewis. Joe Pitt sucks too. Story three. Lewis has an administrative job at Cohn's law office in At the beginning of the piece, he abandons his partner Pryor, who is dying of an AIDS-related illness. Lewis is not doing very well and begins to engage in all kinds of self-destructive behavior and eventually begins an affair with Joe Pitt.

Honestly, he spends most of the time. Piece behaves very badly and does not cope very well with his partner's illness. In the end he finds out that Joe, as Roy Cohn's protégé, has been involved in creating a lot of homophobic policies in the US government and they break up because of that and because Joe hits Louis. in the face after that lewis asks pryor to take him back lewis also sucks story 4 harper as mentioned she is joe pitt's wife she is not so hot and hallucinates a lot during her hallucinations sometimes she runs into pryor who, as we will learn in a the second is also a hallucination, she ends up discovering through fryer that her husband is gay now pryor has never met joe he only knows through the magic of hallucination harper and joe fight over this and she ends up taking a lot of valium and wandering around New York thinking he's in Antarctica, he eventually comes too and ends up leaving Joe and going to San Francisco.

Harper doesn't suck. We have a lot of sympathy for Harper's fifth story. I've saved her for last and she's probably the best. -Known story of angels in America before Walter is dying of an AIDS related illness, his partner Lewis cannot handle this and abandons him when Prior's condition worsens, he begins to hallucinate, talks to him and finally leaves. He encounters an angel, the angel tells him that the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was that God abandoned heaven and that humanity needs to stop progressing so that humanity can be restored before he finally rejects this message, he hits the angel and he goes up to heaven where he tells the other angels that humanity cannot stop progressing and prays for more life he then wakes up from this hallucination with his health improving lewis asks pryor to take him back for previous declines previous it doesn't suck either we like it a lot of pryor also story 5.5 there is a nurse named belize who is an old friend of both of them Priors and Lewis police don't have much of an individual story, but through her work at the hospital she exists to tie many of these stories together.

Bullies Rocks. We love Belize. Still with me. Excellent listening. Is incredible. Tony Kushner is a beautiful writer. He tackles big ideas. and he presents enormous amounts of information through pages and pages of dialogue. He is dense, but never feels like a lecture. Instead, he swings wildly between realism and fantasy. phrase, it also doesn't shy away from the fact that it is a play in which each of the actors plays multiple roles with instructions from Kushner, who was a disciple of the legendary Bertral Brecht, who instructed productions to show the artifice of the play on full display , to quote Kushner. and the plays move forward, it's okay if the wires show and maybe it's a good thing if they do.

There came a point where I thought, "Okay, we've supported each other and addressed and exposed so much of the pain of this, now let's move on to the joy." and the vitality of queer people this is the extent of krishna's vision um telling this story in this way is for me the beginning of overcoming the pain of all this from that moment on we move in the theater far from sitting in the Pain and rage and the move toward a hope, a future and a possibility throughout the two plays Los Angeles in America addresses the hypocrisy of the American political system and its inability to address the HIV/AIDS crisis in any way. ethics. the homophobia that was prevalent at the time that informed such policy response or lack thereof, addresses the scope and impact of the HIV AIDS epidemic in a way that makes it identifiable to all communities, not just the communities directly affected, Particularly while Pryor does not die in The End of Los Angeles in America, his symptoms and treatment are depicted with horrific, unflinching reality.

This is the most effective tool used in angels in America. It portrays a grim reality, terrible events and historical figures and then uses Harper's and the previous hallucinations to create a surreal, dream-like atmosphere. the characters dissociate from the horrors of reality and it allows us as the audience to dissociate for a second also because we do not want to live in this like falsettos, it puts us in the place of those affected, generating empathy and compassion if you will. to watch from the comfort of your living room, kushner and hbo adapted it into a miniseries in 2003, honestly that will be a better bet than trying to summarize it further.

I can't recommend it enough, it's ridiculous, so yes We were all interested in musical theater in the 90s. Rental was very important for those who joined us for the first time. The Hire was written by Jonathan Larson and premiered in 1994. Tragically, Jonathan Larson died of an aortic dissection the night before the show ended. -It premiered on Broadway, which makes it a kind of elegy for him. It's about a group of artists struggling to make a living in Manhattan's East Village in the early '90s. It's loosely based on Puccini's opera labo m and I mean, broadly speaking, it focuses on seven main characters.

Mark is. a filmmaker that roger lives with who is a musician now roger spends most of the first act falling in love with mimi an exotic dancer at the beginning of the show brand rogers the former roommate collins shows up and begins a relationship with angel a street musician finally the ex mark's girlfriend is a performance artist named maureen who is now in a relationship with a lawyer named joanne important things to note about this group roger mimi collins and angel live with hiv roger and mark believe they should not have to pay the rent because paying rent sucks are all self-proclaimed bohemians and they sing a big number about it at the top of act 2, where they list everything even remotely artistic to shock the man.

They are very rude to the waiters, which is a cardinal sin for most artists I know. As most of us have found ourselves working in the service industry at various points in our lives, rent was a big issue. It is, by far, the most commercially successful work of all the works we have talked about today. It also had great critical success in At the time of its release it won several major awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Musical. It also has some major problems, so full disclosure. I don't love renting.

I used to do it when I was between 15 and 25 years old. a very important musical for a young musician who has felt misunderstood ever since, although it hasn't really sat well with me for reasons I'll get into for now, although I'll leave that aside and present you with a balanced look. It rents as a piece, so Rent does a lot of things right. It features culturally diverse characters as part of its main cast. It was certainly not the first work to feature prominent LGBTQ representation, but it was one of the first pieces of its kind to be widely accessible.

For an audience outside of New York theater-goers, it was made accessible thanks to the soundtrack that included catchy, easily digestible rock music and lyrics. The entire show was recorded on a two-CD set, which meant that listeners around the world could become intimately familiar with the nuances. of the show, this wasn't the first time this had been done, seeing another song through musicals like phantom and les mis, but it was the first time it had been done with a show that featured explicit and prominent lgbtq content unlike the others pieces discussed here. Taking place at the beginning of the HIV AIDS epidemic, The Rent takes place in the early '90s, meaning it was the first notable piece to feature characters who quoted the show live with live with live and not die from The disease in the mid-90s When the United States was still recovering from the HIV AIDS epidemic, Rent humanized the victims of the crisis by presenting audiences with characters sympathetic to the disease, characters who reminded us that there were real people who suffered. during this crisis and that these people had stories to tell in normal cardiac falsettos. and Angels in America use different and unique strategies to help us empathize with their characters, often in ways that are difficult to understand.

The divisive or even controversial rental has earned a place at the HIV AIDS media table by offering an accessible outlet for the average audience member. understand and empathize with lgbtq characters, characters with HIV and AIDS, characters with substance use disorders, and characters of color; However, this simplistic and watered-down approach leads to some pretty major problems; a couple of our main characters regularly reject their parents' financial help without explanation. why the play features a number in which their parents leave them messages asking how to make sure they are okay, while Mark complains about how annoying his loving and understanding middle-class parents are, Mimi tempts Roger to back off. her sobriety and doing heroin with it, which is a really horrible thing for someone to do, they never address how horrible this is and the answer is really, it's really horrible.

Maureen is bisexual, which was great at the time for coming out explicitly as a character on stage, but she meets the bisexual stereotype. pretty harsh throughout the piece, Mark is making his art into a film that attempts to accurately depict life in the West Village in the early '90s, at one point a homeless person from New York criticizes him for profiting from their existence , something that is never really addressed. but it sure leaves some of usat home thinking, yeah, that's a good point, that's really gross. The main criticism leveled at the rental is that it is a story that features lgbtq characters and characters of color written by a straight white guy and consumed. primarily by white heterosexual audiences Larsen shoots primarily for a superficial understanding of gender non-conformity and sexual fluidity and in the process ends up playing into some pretty damaging stereotypes the narratives focus on the heterosexual couple with hiv as opposed to the other romantic couple main two Characters of color with HIV are equally problematic; erases those who would have been at the center of the fight for health care in the mid-1980s, not only that, but it sanitizes the revolution so that it is not political but artistic as one of my favorite mediums.

Academic Lindsay Ellis says in her much deeper analysis of the problematic legacy of renting, shows like this have romantic ideas disguised as revolution, but none of them challenge existing power structures in a way that might alienate the wealthy audience and then there's the Angel. something about putting that character there and not commenting too much on them there and giving them a love story and turning them into some kind of Christ figure, that salvation figure in the piece, um again, it's subversive, right for the angel, she exists as a reminder that this disease has a body count and is also an uncomfortable outlier, as the only named character with HIV who dies she is there to be the face of the revolution, an innocent victim of the disease struck down before of time, spreading positivity and squashing conflict wherever he goes.

This story doesn't need to have a happy ending, it helps the falsettos, certainly not. It's worth noting that she and Collins are the only rental couple who doesn't get one, meanwhile, Mimi magically comes back to life through the power of song. everything the show does well it's really important that we don't dismiss it just because of everything it does less well. It has come under a lot of criticism in recent years for being a show that features lgbtq characters living with a heavily politicized illness without embodiment. any of the political messages in his text part of this falls on larsen as the only creator on this list who is not directly part of the lgbtq community considering that larsen lost four close friends to the disease, he has no right to tell a history. about HIV and helps particularly here since he does it through the lens of Mark, a straight Jewish guy who experiences it secondhand.

You know, it totally speaks to Jonathan Larson's lived experience. His lived experience was a kind of suburban privilege, as many musical writers are as a straight man. He would have had different views on those experiences as someone who had not lived through them as such. It is possible that he did not fully understand the problematic portrayals of these characters in his work. Rent's greatest strength and greatest weakness are the same. It's so easy to digest. This means. Its catchy music and lovable characters make a complicated and divisive topic easy to understand, so when examining rental it's really important that we're not policing who gets to tell what story or understanding why certain stories can change meaning when We know a little more about the storyteller's queer stories mean more when they come from queer creators will always be more authentic than filtering the same story through different and fundamentally incomparable lived experience.

The HIV AIDS epidemic has roots in politics and homophobia and affects other marginalized groups we have had. I had time to address this topic in this essay, although the number of deaths worldwide from AIDS has been halved over the last decade, it is still the cause of more than 1 million deaths a year and continues to be particularly brutal in some areas of Africa in 2011, with more than 71 percent of all HIV and AIDS-related deaths involving people living in Africa. All of this could have potentially been mitigated with a faster global response which was not done mainly due to prejudice towards the affected communities, as I said at the beginning.

There is a lot to learn here. I'd like to bring back a quote from Tony Kushner that I showed at the top of this video. Poets, playwrights and novelists are not meant to try to analyze something, but simply describe a moment that none of the pieces we saw today achieve. Any attempt to analyze the causes, effects or repercussions of the HIV and AIDS crisis, however, all strive to tell very personal stories in their own way. Larry Kramer dedicated his entire life to helping his community recover from the HIV and AIDS epidemic. He founded two organizations that looked at the problem from every angle imaginable while pushing for support and change, but his most well-known piece is the story of how one man is affected by the pandemic.

The same goes for angels in falsetto in the United States and instead of focusing on analyzing the problem or presenting a solution, they ask us to have empathy. This is the greatest strength of theater. It allows us to take our collective trauma and humanize it by suddenly addressing issues that were statistics in the news they become much more because we spend time getting to know ned weeks or whizzer or prior walter or angel, I think it's worth it if your community has an AIDS memorial to visit, take some time to have your own personal vigil to recognize the contributions of a lost generation of genius, I think that's the part that What makes me feel even a little soft and emotional now is that these were people who were in the prime of their lives at the most prolific time, where they put their power into play, their personal power and their professional power, and they had more to say and They died in every mass and I think it is worth devoting a moment of reflection, to look at their faces and observe what they did and find their work, um, just as an exercise to honor our ancestors, our kind of theatrical ancestors, so that we move forward wrapping. our heads around our current collective trauma we have a choice some of us can walk the path of william finn and write pieces that reflect our own experience like a mirror some of us can strive to emulate tony kushner and write complex pieces that provoke thought and discussion some of We can aspire to create pieces that have Jonathan Larson's level of accessibility, reach, and influence, and hopefully, some of us will follow in the footsteps of the great Larry Kramer by dedicating our lives to helping our community and the world recover through artistic activism and a very personal sense. of bravery as is always the case with history, the information is right in front of us, we just have to decide what to do with it.

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