Playwright Terrence McNally Dies of Complications from Coronavirus at 81

Tony Award-winning Playwright Terrence McNally (Love! Valour! Compassion!, Master Class, Kiss of the Spider Woman and many more) has died of complications from coronavirus. He was 81.

Broadway.com reports: “Terrence McNally, the celebrated playwright and librettist who penned an award-winning body of work ranging from drama to farce to musical comedy, died on March 24 at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, FL, according to publicist Matt Polk. The cause of death was complications due to coronavirus; McNally was a lung cancer survivor who lived with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.”

McNally is survived by his husband, producer Tom Kirdahy.

Adds Theatermania: “Over the course of his career, McNally was awarded four Tony Awards: Best Book of a Musical for both Kiss of the Spider Woman in 1992 and Ragtime in 1998; and Best Play for both Love! Valour! Compassion in 1995 and Master Class in 1996. His credits in the 2000s included the books for The Full Monty, The Visit, and Anastasia. His beloved romance Frankie and Johnny at the Claire de Lune reached Broadway in the summer of 2019 in celebration of his 80th birthday.”

A few of the tributes to McNally:

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Playwright Terrence McNally Dies of Complications from Coronavirus at 81

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He only sleeps with straight dudes and here’s why

In an anonymously-penned essay for The Guardian’s weekly column “My Life in Sex”, a gay explains why he’s only interested in having sex with his husband… and straight dudes.

“There have always been men who have sex with other men, but don’t consider themselves gay or even bisexual,” the man writes. “I should know; I’ve been sleeping with them since my schooldays.”

Obviously, this is nothing new. There have been countless books, studies, and academic articles written in recent years about straight-identifying men who hookup with guys but don’t consider themselves gay.

Related: This informal study of straight men who masturbate together reached some stimulating conclusions

The man, who is in an open marriage, says he prefers sleeping with straight guys because “they don’t want romance.”

“With gay men there’s always the possibility that they could get the wrong end of the stick and want something more.”

The man goes on to say that, as a married fella, he’s “not interested in falling in love.” Now, thanks to dating apps and the internet, the “discreet, anonymous encounters” he craves are “incredibly easy.”

“There is little, or nothing, in the way of guilt,” he continues. “I’ve even encountered straight men who have male-on-male playdates with their wives’ blessing.”

Related: Survey finds a surprising number of straight men have some pretty gay tendencies

“I was initially skeptical, but this arrangement seems to work for everyone,” he adds. “The wife knows she has no competition from another woman; the husband knows he does not want a life with another man. It’s the definition of ‘no strings attached’.”

Of course, every now and then he’ll meet up with a guy who ends up catching feelings, and that’s always a buzzkill.

“One very tall police officer got a bit carried away, swore undying love and wanted to leave his marriage,” he recalls.

“I learned the hard way not to let things get out of hand. Now I make it clear that I’m only interested in a couple of hours of fun, before sending them back to their wives and girlfriends.”

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WATCH: Madonna calls COVID-19 ‘the great equalizer’ in bizarre, deleted bathtub video

What to do when you’re all cooped up…

Sing into your hairbrush about fried fish? Absolutely.

Wax poetic from the bathtub about how “terrible,” but also “great,” the coronavirus is? Hmm that’s a tough one.

Madonna, like millions of other humans, is experiencing some cabin fever.

You can see that in full effect from this bathroom rendering of “Vogue” about eating fried fish, and we’re here for it:

“Cut me some slack,” she requests of her viewers.

But in another post about the pandemic, Madonna likely ran out of slack after explaining to folks, from a milky, flower-pedaled bathtub, why COVID-19 is “great.” She also called it “terrible,” for the record.

“That’s the thing about COVID-19,” she says in the since-deleted post. “It doesn’t care about how rich you are, how famous you are, how funny you are, how smart you are, where you live, how old you are, what amazing stories you can tell.”

She continues, swirly piano music accompanying her: “It’s the great equalizer and what’s terrible about it is what’s great about it.”

Reaction was mixed at best.

“This video is stupid. We all know that you are in your own rich confinement. You live in other reality Madge. Stop it. With petals on your rich bath, oh my god,” one user commented. “Covid19 makes distinction cause you can afford your own respiratory machine. Stop trivializing this awful situation please.”

Though the video was removed from Instagram, it’s still available just about everywhere else:

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