Rufus Wainwright – son of Loudon III, brother to Martha – has once again embraced his total and utter gayness (not that there’s anything wrong with that) by paying tribute to Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall…but, oh, what a tribute!
According to Playbill.com, “complete with a 40-piece orchestra, Wainwright recreates the original April 23, 1961, concert she performed at the height of her late career. ‘The greatest single night in show business,’ as it was called, featured Garland singing 26 standards, show stoppers and songs from her films. Wainwright performs his own interpretations of the songs — not mimicking Garland — over the same orchestrations.”
The number of show tunes performed by Wainwright over the course of the evening would make any straight man in the audience go gay before intermission, let alone the end of the night…and, yet, damn, as a Wainwright fan, I gotta say, I really hope they release a CD or DVD of the evening.
To counteract this post, I’m now going to go watch a John Wayne movie and embrace my heterosexuality.
