✨ Michael Musto @michaelmusto shares the inside scoop on Adam Lambert’s latest Broadway project, Night of 1000 Stevies and fabulous galas that weren’t bankrolled by Jeff Bezos in his latest I’ll Take Manhattan column.
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🎭 Michael Musto @michaelmusto continues his W42ST I’ll Take Manhattan column, and this month turns his attention to Broadway — taking in a run of new openings and offering his clear-eyed verdicts, with a bonus second column.
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Michael Musto @michaelmusto continues his W42ST I’ll Take Manhattan column, and this month turns his attention to Broadway — taking in a run of new openings and offering his clear-eyed verdicts, with a bonus column to come featuring more reviews later in April.
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📸 André De Shields as ‘Old Deuteronomy’ from Cats: The Jellicle Ball. Photos: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMad / Michael Musto heading to review Cats: The Jellicle Ball on Broadway this week. Photo: Phil O’Brien
Michael Musto’s @michaelmusto latest “I’ll Take Manhattan” column includes nightlife, theater and gossip — and he tells us how he’s irresistibly pulled back to Hell’s Kitchen’s bars, bites and buzz.
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📸 Empanada Mama on a summer evening in 2025. Photo: Phil O’Brien / Michael dropped by New World Stages to see The Gazillion Bubble Show this month. Photo: Chris Leoni / Designer Malan Breton (left) might do some kind of collaboration inspired by The Kinks, the legendary rock group that included Dave Davies (right). Photo: Rebecca G Wilson / Michael Musto hanging out at It’s Him with Drag Race favorites Jackie Cox and Jan Sport. Photo: Brian Christopher Cummings
🎬 THE BIG JOHNSON is now available to rent or own on cable, satellite, and digital platforms.
Dean Johnson, drag queen, rock star, LGBTQI+ activist, junkie, genius, escort, and then John Doe. Was it murder? Was it an accident? We may never know but Dean and “the Big Johnson” changed New York City nightlife and everyone who knew him forever.
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In this month’s “I’ll Take Manhattan” column, @michaelmusto reports from Stonewall’s Pride flag protest, dives into nostalgia docs, Rent, drag revivals, a Midtown feast — and Bad Bunny.
📸 Photos: Katie Mollison @kamerashoots.nyc / Phil O’Brien
Never Blend In Contributor Introduction: Michael Musto
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For “columnist, author, commentator, bon vivant” Michael Musto, writing was always about survival. What began as a private refuge became a celebrated life’s work devoted to amplifying, documenting, and preserving LGBTQIA+ culture so it would never be erased.
Through his incomparable wit, candour, and relentless visibility, Michael Musto hasn’t only described a community — he has helped preserve it for the generations who will come looking for proof that others like themselves existed before.
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✨Michael Musto kicks off his “I’ll Take Manhattan” column for W42ST with drag spectacle at The Glams, Midtown bargains, standout service and Broadway buzz.
Manhattan-born entertainment journalist Michael Musto cemented his role as a nightlife fixture with his irreverent Village Voice gossip column La Dolce Musto, launched in 1984. For decades he chronicled celebrity scandals and club culture with sharp wit, later authoring books and freelancing widely. Follow him on W42ST as he launches his new monthly column.
📸 Exclusive photo set for W42ST of The Glams by @jwilson77
I have a new column!!! I'm writing a monthly column called "I'll Take Manhattan" in the fab and buzzy W42ST site and newsletter. I'll take you all through town with seat belts on as I cover the nightlife, restaurants, real estate, and scandal trends. The first column has gone up today, so please check it out and enjoy. Simply go to /post/ill-take-manhattan-the-glams-great-service-bargains-and-broadway-buzz/ and read my take on the Glam Awards on Monday night, among other iridescent happenings. By the way, I just won a Glam. What a week!
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The annual @glamawards for NYC LGBTQ nightlife are coming around on January 19th at Sony Hall, so all the usual questions will be popping up again:
Will Debbie Allen choreograph an interpretive dance number to One Battle After Another?
Will Glenn Close finally win something?
And will Michael Musto be taken out of mothballs in order to present yet one more artistically essential category?
For the answers to all those and more burning issues...be there! Or just glance down. Tickets at glamawards.net. Photo by Andrew Werner.
