Consider this your formal invitation to the most dramatic birthday party of the year: Netflix’s movie adaptation of The Boys in the Band will sag up Wednesday, September 30, the streamer was announced Friday.
Produced by Ryan Murphy and directed by Joe Mantello (Hollywood), The Boys in the Band is based on the 1968 play by late writer Mart Crowley, who died in March. The film is set in New York City, where a group of gay men gather for a friend’s birthday party and are confronted with uncomfortable truths throughout the course of the evening.
The scene ran for a limited involvement on Broadway in 2018, and many of the actors of that revival – which was also directed by Mantello – will re-earn their roles for the adaptation of Netflix. The cast included Matt Bomer (White collar), Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory), Zachary Quinto (Heroes), Andrew Rannells (Black Monday), Charlie Carver (Teen Wolf), Brian Hutchison (Madam Secretary), Michael Benjamin Washington (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), Robin de Jesús (Law and order: Special victim unit) and Tuc Watkins (Desperate housewives).
This will be the second time The Boys in the Band has been transformed into a movie. It was previously adapted into a movie in 1970, which played the same cast from the first off-Broadway run of the play in 1968.
In addition to the photo above of the characters of Parsons and Bomer, Netflix has released three more silences from the upcoming film; scroll down to view them.
