Is Paulo Szot Gay? Apparently, Yes.

Since there seems to be so much interest in the sexuality of Tony winner Paul Szot, I thought I'd pass this along. According to AfterElton.com, Szot is indeed an out gay man. I don't usually traffic in gossip, but the phrase "paulo szot gay" is still the number one search term on my blog, so I thought I'd satisfy the curiosity of a significant portion of my readers.

Szot is a handsome hunk of a man, with a sonorous voice and a terrific stage presence, and South Pacific has become the one, unqualified musical hit of the season. I'm not a fan of the show, and I found this production underwhelming, but I'd rather have people seeing Rodgers and Hammerstein than Andrew Lloyd Webber.

So, boa sorte, Senhor Szot. To you and your boyfriend.

Comments

[Keith G]

I'd rather have people seeing Rodgers and Hammerstein than Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Amen to that!

[Scot Colford]

Oh, whew. Not about Paulo, but about you not liking South Pacific as a show. I once had a director who claimed the only way he could be persuaded to do that show is if he could stage it as a concept piece ala Marat/Sade. You know, where several American prisoners of war are strung up in a cage, suspended above the action of the play being performed by Japanese soldiers as torture. That's how I feel about it too.

But my husband loves it.

[chris caggiano]

Scot,

Thanks for joining me in what appears to be a very small minority. But I just don't like the show. Pretty melodies and overwraught drama do not a musical make. SoPac to me always seemed like a regression for R&H: reverting back to the scene-song-dance formula they worked so hard to obviate.

But Szot sure is easy on the eyes. I'd take him over ten Matt Morrisons any day.

--cc

[Dennis Mae]

Wow, its old-fashioned, but not thrilling to South Pacifics romance, sexuality, and corny humor is a surprise to me. Isnt romance, sex, and a few laughs all we ever wanted from a musical? I expect people not to like Lerners overwrought Camelot, which to me is still pretty wonderful, but searching and longing for acceptance and a man to come home from the war still seems pretty cool (and contemporary) for a song and dance evening. The military still doesnt like women or homos and wars still have con-men and heroes so it still seems up to date to me. I guess you have to be over 50 to still feel it but when I was a kid in the 60s I thought South Pacific was about the best a musical can be, and still is, present production excepted. Oh, yeah and we all can sing the songs - still. I cant resist singing to my students that Im gayer than laughter Thanks Oscar!

[Helena]

How rather American the comment about Andrew Lloyd Weber´s work. As to Paulo Szot, he can be gay but gayer than Douglas Sills ( in Scarlet Pimpernel or im the revival of Carnival.

Helena