One of actor Jonathan Bennett’s career goals is about to come true. He’s heading to Broadway for the first time as a performer. Yesterday, Bennett (who shot to fame in the 2004 movie Mean Girls), announced that he’s taking up a role in Spamalot.
Bennett reshared a headline from Playbill about his casting. He captioned the photo, “Dreams do come true!”
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According to Playbill, Bennett will take on the role of Sir Robin, currently played by another queer actor, Michael Urie (Ugly Betty).
Urie will finish his run on January 21st and Bennett will take over on the 23rd.
Spamalot is based on the 1975 movie, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It follows the escapades of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table as they attempt to find the mythical Holy Grail.
The show earned 14 Tony nominations when it was first performed on Broadway in 2005, and nabbed the prestigious Tony for Best Musical. It returned to Broadway last October at the St James Theatre.
Among the many people to congratulate Bennett was his husband, fellow TV personality Jaymes Vaughan.
Vaughan posted a reply to his hubby saying, “I AM SO #%*^ PROUD OF YOU!! You did it baby! You’re gonna be on Broadway!!!”
Vaughan also posted a couple of messages about the casting to his Instagram stories, with one saying, “I could not be more proud of you … congratulations baby.” A second one said “My Sir Robin 😍” under a photo of Bennett.
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Besides their respective TV and acting jobs, Vaughan and Bennett also run their own gay travel cruise company. They’ve amassed a large social media following with their sweet and cute insights into their married life, and for simply being each other’s biggest cheerleaders.
He also had some words of advice for the young cast.
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He’s such a huge cutie. But he’s not queer. That is disrespectful. He’s gay. Just ask him. Please drop the trans ideology they them whatever, shoving this unwanted slur down the lgb community’s throats. Trans slapped the word on us when they lifted the LGB movement for their own batshit crazy agenda knowing we hate it. Stop it.
Um, I got some news for you, I got QUEER tattooed across the back of my head 30+ years ago before the whole, “some Gays hate Trans folks” bullshit started. So speak for yourself.
Queer represents me to a tee.
I’m GAY, WIERD, UNIQUE and DIFFERENT and would have it no other way.
AND for some of us old timers (I’m 55) QUEER was a rallying cry from the 80’s.
We need to focused as a community so we can ALL fight back against the christo-fascists and you making comments against Trans folks doesn’t help.
For many of us, the use of the word “queer” is a pejorative. It’s great that queer “represents you to a tee,” but for many of us it doesn’t and Queerty should not be so presumptuous that it represents the two actors mentioned.
I have been out since 1983 and not once referred to myself as queer. I should be able, along with others, to refer to myself in a way that best reflects who I am and how I see myself and not feel denigrated by the popular vernacular that many of us do not subscribe to, nor appreciate.
I don’t know if I’d necessarily equate the use of “queer” with the trans part of the LGBTQ+ community. It is its own letter after all. But I went through junior high and high school being introduced as the “class queer” so I would never adopt the word to describe myself. That being said I don’t know if Jonathan Bennett has any strong feelings about the subject. I do, however, know that at Christmas Con in December he was wearing a t-shirt that said in rainbow letters “Make The Yuletide Gay.”
Let’s not slur each other within our “special” community no matter the label we place upon ourselves. Just accept people for who and what they are. Is that so difficult to do?
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bachy
scam
bachy
These two are cute as hell (but it wouldn’t hurt to dial it back to about an 11).
Diplomat
He’s such a huge cutie. But he’s not queer. That is disrespectful. He’s gay. Just ask him. Please drop the trans ideology they them whatever, shoving this unwanted slur down the lgb community’s throats. Trans slapped the word on us when they lifted the LGB movement for their own batshit crazy agenda knowing we hate it. Stop it.
LegionKeign
Um, I got some news for you, I got QUEER tattooed across the back of my head 30+ years ago before the whole, “some Gays hate Trans folks” bullshit started. So speak for yourself.
Queer represents me to a tee.
I’m GAY, WIERD, UNIQUE and DIFFERENT and would have it no other way.
AND for some of us old timers (I’m 55) QUEER was a rallying cry from the 80’s.
We need to focused as a community so we can ALL fight back against the christo-fascists and you making comments against Trans folks doesn’t help.
SELA Rising
Thank you Legion
To Diplo
We are here
We are QUEER
Get used to it.
Baron Wiseman
@LegionKeign
Please take it down a few notches, LegionKeign.
For many of us, the use of the word “queer” is a pejorative. It’s great that queer “represents you to a tee,” but for many of us it doesn’t and Queerty should not be so presumptuous that it represents the two actors mentioned.
I have been out since 1983 and not once referred to myself as queer. I should be able, along with others, to refer to myself in a way that best reflects who I am and how I see myself and not feel denigrated by the popular vernacular that many of us do not subscribe to, nor appreciate.
Chill out, LegionKeign.
theaterbloke
I don’t know if I’d necessarily equate the use of “queer” with the trans part of the LGBTQ+ community. It is its own letter after all. But I went through junior high and high school being introduced as the “class queer” so I would never adopt the word to describe myself. That being said I don’t know if Jonathan Bennett has any strong feelings about the subject. I do, however, know that at Christmas Con in December he was wearing a t-shirt that said in rainbow letters “Make The Yuletide Gay.”
Pietro D
Let’s not slur each other within our “special” community no matter the label we place upon ourselves. Just accept people for who and what they are. Is that so difficult to do?
HMFan
Congratulations, Sir Robin! Break-a-leg!