South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are working with Avenue Q co-writer Robert Lopez to bring all your terrifying Mormon stereotypes to the boards of Broadway in their new musical, Mormon Musical, which will star the ubiquitous Cheyenne Jackson, who you know from Xanadu, YouTube and every gay party camera wall in the city. Jackson says of the show:

"It's hilarious - very acerbic and biting. It offends everybody but does what 'South Park' does best, which is by the end it comes around and has something great to say…I play the main missionary, Elder something."

The show starts rehearsals next month, so you can probably expect funny undergraments, baptism for the dead, repressed polygamy and sexual confused missionaries sometime in early '09. If you're hoping for non-stop Mormon bashing set to song, you might want to wait for the reviews frist, Parker and Stone's reputation are built on skewering everybody equally, so you may find yourself a target, too. Then again, their very first musical forray was called Cannibal!

Xanadu's producers are doing everything in their power to make sure Tony officials don't think its too gay to win an award. Thus, this video of a half-naked cast shooting the shit with Nathan Lane, who successfully keeps it in his pants. Thankfully.

Pop-eye loving Cheyenne Jackson's about to get a new film credit.

The handsome homo has been cast in director Chuck Griffith's Shifting the Canvas. The flick, according to the press people, "tells the story about a group of artists living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn who struggle to maintain a rather dysfunctional family of friends in a post-9/11 world challenged by gentrification, deception and sterilization." Is that sterilization as in white-washing or neutering, both of which are scary.

Griffith's apparently thrilled to be working with Cheyenne, "Cheyenne is the caliber of actor that a director looks for in commanding a scene…I am both humbled and excited to work with this gifted actor of stage and screen.” No word on how Griffith feels about the rest of the cast, including Kids In The Hall's Scott Thompson and Gedde Watanabe, who starred as Long Duk Dong in Sixteen Candles.

By the way, the press release informs us of a "unique twist:" "…the openly gay actor will be playing Jens, a straight Ivy League type." Absolutely shocking!

Update: As you'll see in the comments, Griffith has commented on Thompson, who he likes, which is good, because they have to work together and shit. We should have remembered Griffith's remarks, but they were made last July and we have no long-term memory.

An unknown homo has too much time on his hands! An Advocate staffer sent us this 'toon, which crazed and notable artist Glen Hanson made in response to actor Cheyenne Jackson's queer sexual awakening:

The first time that I knew I was gay — I think I was, like, 7 — I was watching this Valentine’s Day Popeye cartoon episode that would play every year. There was this scene where Popeye was captured by Brutus, tied up with no shoes or socks on, and Brutus starts tickling his feet. I remember getting a little boner.

This illustration is not drawn to scale, we're sure.

The ever-alluring Cheyenne Jackson gets all sorts of gay in The Advocate's latest edition. Rather than taking his publicists' white-washing advice to eschew his sexuality, the Xanadu actor lets it all hang out. And we mean really out.

The first time that I knew I was gay — I think I was, like, 7 — I was watching this Valentine’s Day Popeye cartoon episode that would play every year. There was this scene where Popeye was captured by Brutus, tied up with no shoes or socks on, and Brutus starts tickling his feet. I remember getting a little boner.

That's - um, good to know.

While a bit queer, Jackson's frankness indicates a shift in Hollywood's pink perspective. Yeah, Xanadu's the gayest show on Broadway and Jackson's straight roles aren't huge - an aborted television show and an upcoming horror movie, Hysteria - but it's all about the context.

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AfterElton's ever-adventurous Two Gay Guys - Michael Jensen and Brent Hartinger - recently took a trip to Broadway's Xanadu. Using their unknown - and unmentionable - powers of persuasion, the unambiguously gay duo nailed an interview with the show's pantheon-worthy star, Cheyenne Jackson.

During the courage of their tete-a-tete, Jackson reveals that Fridays count as the queerest night of his working week. Good to know…

We've included the video after the jump…

PS: Remember when we met Cheyenne Jackson? We're still swooning.

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Via AfterElton's legitimately interesting interview with the ultra-dreamy Cheyenne Jackson, who appears in Xanadu on Broadway:

With his piercing eyes, striking features, beautiful complexion, and imposing 6'4” frame, the part-Native American Cheyenne Jackson is the gorgeous young actor of everyone's dreams — as those who saw him on Broadway in All Shook Up or on film in United 93 will attest. The fact that he happens to be gay only adds to his fascination quotient.

Is that so?

Now, consider this exchange between Jackson and homo-journo Michael Portantiere

MP: I'm guessing that, in terms of theater work, your being out has been a non-issue.

CJ: That's right. Here, your reputation is everything. People know if you've got the goods, if you're easy to work with, and if you can get the job done. Besides, it's New York theater. Everybody's gay!

We're so confused. If being gay makes you interesting - a statement with which Jono would no doubt disagree - does that mean all theater fags are interesting?

If so, why do we find most of them so fucking boring?

Cheyenne Jackson, from the current Flight 93 and various Broadway shows. This pic, in fact, is from 2004's Broadway Bares fundraiser for AIDS services. We love people who get naked for charity! This is the only picture you get today, as the rest of Cheyenne's pics we found were cheesy. But this one stands by itself.