Email Author Michael Musto

Awards

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 22, 2010

  "Kicked in the Groin at Every Glittery Turn"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 18, 2010

  "Where's My Book?"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 29, 2010

  "Year in Review"

More

2013 Stories by Michael Musto

• A Whole New Role For Joan Rivers

  published May 13, 2013

  This Friday night on Thirteen, Joan Rivers goes from Fashion Police to theater critic, sharing the Theater Talk panel with esteemed arbiters Ben Brantley and Peter Marks. And cohost Susan Haskins tel... More >>

• FEATURED STORY

  Bill de Blasio Met The Drag Queens Last Night

  published May 13, 2013

  Last night at the Cutting Room, Cynthia Nixon and Alan Cumming hosted a rousing event for mayoral wannabe Bill de Blasio, whose liberal stance and "We want our city back!" slogan have become pretty ir... More >>

• The Medea/Madea Disconnect Grows In Brooklyn

  published May 13, 2013

  The Gallery Players is a very cool theater group in Park Slope, where they're currently doing a strong production of Dreamgirls, giving it more intimacy than some of the splashier versions that have b... More >>

• Barbara Walters Misquotes Cabaret On Retiring

  published May 13, 2013

  TV legend Barbara Walters will no longer be on view--or on The View--as of next summer, when she's stepping down from her longtime perch as TV's reigning quizzer. And she means it.Walters told the Ti... More >>

• FEATURED STORY

  My Weird Experiences with Famous People Lately

  published May 13, 2013

  Just when you think you've seen and heard it all, it gets curiouser and curiouser, folks. First, I wrote up Hardcore Pawn as perhaps the worst, fakest reality show in all of Christendom. The publici... More >>

• Arrested Development's Frozen Banana Stand Is Opening In NYC!

  published May 13, 2013

  Today at 11 AM, diagonally across from Radio City Music Hall! Get there quickly if you want to procure a frozen banana or a glimpse at paparazzi madly shooting all kinds of Arrested Development types... More >>

• FEATURED STORY

  Gwyneth Hated The Met Punk Gala, It Turns Out!

  published May 10, 2013

  I have increased respect for the Iron Man 3 star. Asked about the Met Museum's Gala--the haute-couture parade of rich people supposedly honoring the punk movement (which was enraged by commodified we... More >>

• What Do You Call A Guy Who Hangs Out With Lesbiansr

  published May 10, 2013

  After all, women who hang with gay guys have names (however horrible) like "f*g hag" and "fruit fly." But what about the reverser Shouldn't they have a demeaning nickname toor The posters over at th... More >>

• Christina Crawford Improves Her Stage Act

  published May 10, 2013

  When I saw it recently, Christina Crawford's presentation Surviving Mommie Dearest (at the Snapple Theater Center) was a little bizarre because the bulk of it involved her showing a documentary that i... More >>

• FEATURED STORY

  The Guy Who Plays Smokey Robinson

  published May 10, 2013

  Charl Brown is nominated for a Tony for playing singer/songwriter Smokey Robinson in Motown: The Musical. He's great in the part--convincing as Smokey, yet bringing his own stuff to it the way good in... More >>

• With Partygoing, Timing Is Everything

  published May 10, 2013

  After years of covering parties--and/or just going to them for fun--I know full well how important timing is. By that I mean one's timing as to when to arrive at an event and also, just as crucially, ... More >>

• First Look At Meryl And Julia In August: Osage County

  published May 10, 2013

  August: Osage County is the Pulitzer winning play by Tracy Letts (see above) about the disappearance of a father and how it further spirals one of the more dysfunctional families in American literatur... More >>

• Catching Up With The Kids Of A Christmas Story

  published May 10, 2013

  At an autograph show, I recently met Scott Schwartz, who played the kid whose tongue got stuck to the pole in 1983's A Christmas Story and who now owns a memorabilia store. I asked him if filming tha... More >>

• A Tolstoy Musical With Russian Dinner

  published May 09, 2013

  That's what you get with Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, Dave Malloy's electro-pop opera based on Tolstoy's War and Peace. It's being performed at Kazino, a pop-up tent on 13th and Wash... More >>

• Cinderella Star On Not Having To Compete With The Matilda Girls

  published May 09, 2013

  Laura Osnes is very good in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, and as a result, she's one of the frontrunners for the Tony Award for best actress in a musical. One of the other frontrunners (or fo... More >>

• Old Jews Star Tells Me Village People Movie Dish

  published May 09, 2013

  How's that for a grabberr Let me explain. The hilarious Marilyn Sokol is one of the stars of Old Jews Telling Jokes, the breezily funny revue, which was honored with a Drama Desk nomination. At a Dr... More >>

• Happy Anniversary, Susanne Bartsch

  published May 09, 2013

  At her weekly party with singer Joey Arias at the Soho Grand, promoter/hostess extraordinaire Susanne Bartsch elegantly announced, "Happy anniversary to me! It's the one-year anniversary of my tits." ... More >>

• The Top Five Come-Ons On Manhunt

  published May 09, 2013

  Manhunt is the site where gay guys look for other gay guys to do dirty gay things with. And there are certain subject headers there that are more popular than others. In New York's state, "F**k me h... More >>

• Broadway's Most Honored Set Designer

  published May 09, 2013

  This season it's David Rockwell, who has two, count 'em two, Tony nominations--one for the factory/nightclub set of Kinky Boots and another for the '80s newsroom ambience of Lucky Guy. This week's co... More >>

• FEATURED STORY

  Two Things I've Noticed About People Who Scream Homophobic Things From Cars

  published May 08, 2013

  It doesn't happen very often these days--maybe once a year--but I've noticed that when someone does let an epithet rip out of their car window, there are generally two fascinating things about them: ... More >>

• Tom Hanks Rides The Subway, And Other Factlets I Just Got At A Tony Awards Event

  published May 08, 2013

  This week's column is a rollicking romp through a Tony nominees' meet-and-greet event, where Tom Hanks told me what people do to him on the subway, how his play was changed in rehearsal, and other ins... More >>

• 10 Stars Who Started Out Stripping

  published May 08, 2013

  Yes, we could list 1000 stars who started out stripping, but let's start with just a healthy handful. They took it off, they bumped it, they slid it, they got paid. And they're not ashamed--nor should... More >>

• Celebrities You Won't Believe Are The Same Age!

  published May 08, 2013

  You'll swear they're father/son, not astral twins. You'll feel sure there's been a mistake, a typo, some surgery. Without saying which one looks like the older of the two, let me simply present some ... More >>

• I Sang On The Pippin Cast Album

  published May 08, 2013

  No, it wasn't exactly a solo. Or a featured bit. Or even the usual ensemble. I was part of a massive chorus of 300 or so people singing harmony behind Tony nominee Andrea Martin on her big song "No T... More >>

• Alec Baldwin Doesn't Like Times Critic Who Didn't Like Him

  published May 08, 2013

  He calls Ben Brantley some sort of "odd, shriveled, bitter Dickensian clerk." Bear in mind that Brantley didn't care for Orphans, which Baldwin stars in, and that might have something to do with Bald... More >>