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.

People say we gays are vain, but we don't know anyone quite like straight man Mario Lopez.

The actor, who recently began playing lead choreographer Zach in Broadway's A Chorus Line, reportedly wants to be the biggest muscle man in the show - and he's making demands to ensure he faces no challengers:

[Lopez] refused to wear Zach's costume, a tan sweater with long sleeves.

It's an iconic outfit, based on that worn in real life by A Chorus Line creator Michael Bennett, and it's been worn by countless Zachs… for the past 30 years.

But "Flex" Lopez wanted to wear a brown shirt with short sleeves so that he could show off his biceps.
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The only trouble is, Flex is sharing the stage with a pair of biceps larger than his. They belong to Nick Adams, who plays Larry, the assistant choreographer.

Larry's iconic costume is a navy blue tank top with the number 17 on it… Flex, sources say, was concerned that Adams' biceps would upstage his, so he requested that Adams wear a hoodie over his tank top, which Adams does whenever he's next to Flex.

We're not that shocked to hear all this - someone as pretty as Lopez is sure to have a complex. We are surprised, however, that he has the nerve to request such changes. His biceps must not be the only big thing on him…

He's no fright! Actor Simon Farrow debuted last night as the titular Rocky in a London production of Rocky Horror Picture Show. Sharon Millerchip seems to like his t-t-touch as the naive dammit Janet.

Meanwhile, writer and Riff Raff originator Richard O'Brien got frisky with Paul Capsis on stage - and later got acquainted with a dismembered leg. Some things never change…

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New York's La Mama Theater needs money for their wild, experimental shows. You should help it.

It's a sad day to be a theater queen. After twelve years on the great gay way, Rent producers announced the musical will close up shop on June 1st. The adaptation of La Boheme not only inspired a generation of young dramatists, but raked in serious dough: "Rent which cost $240,000 to put up downtown, has gone on to gross more than $280 million on Broadway and another $330 million on the road. Productions have been mounted on six continents."

Lance Bass' new memoir Out of Sync gives readers all the gory details of his coming of age, including his first homo-encounter. Writes NYDN's Ben Widdicombe:

Bass says he first learned about the birds and the birds in 2000, when he met a comely chorus boy at a cast party for Mamma Mia! in Chicago.

"In a bold gesture, I managed to invite him back to my hotel room without anybody knowing about it," he recalls.

It's incredible the stage song bird didn't sing about it.

Meanwhile, in other Bass-related news, The New York Times spent some inkage studying the Hairspray actor and got him to open up about writing the book:

I’ve been asked too many times to write a book by the fans. And it was very, I don’t know, like, therapeutic, writing this book. Because the whole time, with ’NSync especially, it went by just so fast, it was like a blur. There was a lot of different things that I didn’t realize were going on.

The Times article also features some commentary from a very familiar face. Or, rather, name.

[PS: Out of Sync currently stands at 333 on Amazon's best seller list, up from 1,252.]

The successful Broadway production of John Waters' hit, Hairspray, spurred Waters and producers to adapt another movie hit, Cry Baby. Writes NYDN's Ben Widdicombe,

Are you ready for a Broadway standard called "Girl, Can I Kiss You With Tongue?"

That's one of the numbers in Cry Baby, the next John Waters -film-turned-musical coming to the Great White Way, in March.

Young James Snyder will play the role made famous by Johnny Depp in 1990. "John Waters is like the quirky uncle you always wanted," he told me Sunday at a birthday for Adam Epstein, who is producing Cry Baby after taking home a Tony for Hairspray.

No crying here, baby.

Reformed porn star Marc Anthony Donais (aka Ryan Idol) will be making waves this fall in Joe Mantello redirection of Terrence McNally's The Ritz. The piece - which centers around a gay bath house and also features some kids named Rosie Perez and Kevin Chamberlin - will be Donais' first Broadway performance. No small feat for a man most of you remember for his inches.

We offer a hearty congratulations to Donais for the career move. Hopefully he can handle playing For his role in The Ritz, Donais will be playing a bath house member. While Donais' made his name in gay entertainment, he tells Andy Cohen he'd rather steer clear of the Kinsey Scale.

Over the years I have chosen to not label myself because there are plenty of others who will. I am happy to not label myself. Even though I come from that business, if one were to look at the plots from the films that I did - I only did 6 - it's art depicting life and life depicting art. My first movie was close to where I was in my own life, and that was being curious about the gay world but having come from a Catholic background.

And now he's transcended labels. His should be a Broadway story. Perhaps McNally needs a follow-up to Deuce?