{"id":7373,"date":"2014-09-11T10:21:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T14:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/ben-rimalower-on-his-new-show-bad-with-money-and-how-being-gay-has-impacted-his-finances\/"},"modified":"2014-09-11T10:21:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T14:21:15","slug":"ben-rimalower-on-his-new-show-bad-with-money-and-how-being-gay-has-impacted-his-finances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/ben-rimalower-on-his-new-show-bad-with-money-and-how-being-gay-has-impacted-his-finances\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Rimalower On His New Show, &#039;Bad With Money,&#039; And How Being Gay Has Impacted His Finances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Ben Rimalower On His New Show, &#039;Bad With Money,&#039; And How Being Gay Has Impacted His Finances<\/b><br \/>\nIn the acclaimed one-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a> show &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/pattiissues.com\/\" target=\"_hplink\">Patti Issues<\/a>,&rdquo; Ben Rimalower used his passion for Broadway diva Patti LuPone as the foil to a deeper narrative about his fractured relationship with his father. For &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/badwithmoney.net\/\" target=\"_hplink\">Bad With Money<\/a>,&rdquo; the openly <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> writer-performer opted to wrestle with another personal (and, in some respects, more imposing) demon: finances.  <\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s safe to say Rimalower&rsquo;s struggles go beyond a few bounced checks and late payment fees, as the new act, which runs at New York&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theduplex.com\/cabaret\/dct.shtml\" target=\"_hplink\">Duplex Cabaret Theatre<\/a> through Nov. 6, chronicles both his brief stint as a prostitute as well as his brush with credit card fraud.     <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s taken me to some real extreme places in my life and I&rsquo;ve made a lot of really terrible, unethical choices,&rdquo; Rimalower, 38, explained. He&#8217;s hopeful the new show will match the success of &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/curtis-wong\/ben-rimalower-patti-lupone-issues-duplex-new-york_b_1972090.html\" target=\"_hplink\">Patti Issues<\/a>,&rdquo; particularly given the universal nature of the subject at hand: &ldquo;People might not tumble down the slide as far as I go, but I think they can relate to those first few slippery steps.&rdquo;   <\/p>\n<p>The Huffington Post caught up with Rimalower shortly after opening night to talk about the new show, his biggest splurges and the impact that being a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a> has had on his struggles with managing cash.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>The Huffington Post: Do you feel any pressure to make &#8220;Bad With Money&#8221; a success given that &#8220;Patti Issues&#8221; was a smash? <\/strong><br \/>\nBen Rimalower: I feel a lot of pressure for myself because I need the money (<em>laughs<\/em>), so there&#8217;s that! But this show is so different. When I wrote &#8220;Patti Issues,&#8221; the common response &#8212; whether people loved it or were less crazy about it &#8212; was, &#8220;This is not what I expected.&#8221; In a way, we&#8217;re pulling that off again, because I think people are expecting something similar to &#8220;Patti Issues,&#8221; but it really is so different from that show. I think the pressure is really all internal.   The show was difficult to write in comparison to &#8220;Patti Issues,&#8221; which was so safe. The actual stories of &#8220;Patti Issues,&#8221; in my life, I feel very evolved with. Whereas this stuff&hellip;I don&#8217;t think William Shakespeare could write about me and my money struggles without some sort of f**ked-up ending.   <\/p>\n<p><strong>How did the &#8220;Bad With Money&#8221; narrative come about for you? <\/strong><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s weird with autobiographical things, because everything in your life is interconnected. That was the case with writing &#8220;Patti Issues.&#8221; I had a lot of material in there about getting sober and a lot of material about my struggles with money.  But as my director Aaron Mark and I were chiseling away at the raw material I wrote for &#8220;Patti Issues,&#8221; much of the [financial] stuff was left on the proverbial cutting room floor. But I still felt very charged by those stories, so it wasn&#8217;t long into the run of &#8220;Patti Issues&#8221; that I started to feel like there was another show I was going to write from those [financial] things, so it was just a matter of fleshing all of that out.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Obviously, your being <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> influenced much of &#8220;Patti Issues.&#8221; Does sexuality come into play at all in the new show? <\/strong><br \/>\nI think <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> have the worst of both worlds when it comes to money. We&#8217;re raised, as <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a>, to be earners, to achieve and to amass wealth. Unlike the drive to play sports &#8212; which is something many <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> reject &#8212; I think we take that mentality on just like all <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a>. But as <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a>, we also want to attract <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a>, so we aspire to a lot of what <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> are taught, too. We want to be beautiful and we want to be glamorous, and that costs money. So I think we&#8217;ve got both of those things going. That&#8217;s certainly been my experience, anyway.  <\/p>\n<p>Like many <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a>, I had a stunted romantic development. Even at Berkeley, there weren&#8217;t that many out <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guys<\/a>. The only place for me to meet <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guys<\/a> was going out in San Francisco &#8212; not a safe, collegiate environment [and a] dangerous, grown-up world I wasn&#8217;t ready for. So it wasn&#8217;t such a stretch from getting wasted and sleeping with random <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guys<\/a> in the Castro to being in downtown San Francisco and getting <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guys<\/a> to pay me for it. <\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s your biggest splurge been, generally? <\/strong><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the quantity, it&#8217;s the day-to-day, and it&#8217;s been mismanagement. The truth is, I spend so much money on overdraft fees, interest, late charges and penalties. If you took all of that out of the picture, the amount of money I actually spend per month might not be so terrible. It&#8217;s a constant hemorrhage.   Honestly, my favorite shopping is Duane Reade. I go in there and I&#8217;m literally high. I can&#8217;t walk out of there without spending at least $100, and I <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">live<\/a> it for it. Nothing makes me happier than to just walk out of Duane Reade with one of those big shopping bags. When I&#8217;m in Duane Reade, I&#8217;m living the dream. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Why do you think your financial issues have been a bigger struggle for you compared to drugs and alcohol?<\/strong><br \/>\nI was a crazy alcoholic and drug abuser, but then I got sober. I know a lot of people have a really difficult time, but it was very easy for me to give up drugs and alcohol and my life has been so much better and I&#8217;m much happier. But money&hellip;it&#8217;s been a day-to-day struggle and I just keep coming up short. <\/p>\n<p>I always think that looking at financial problems [as an addiction] is similar to an eating disorder. Unlike drugs and alcohol, you can&#8217;t quit. I have a very black-and-white personality&hellip;I was a huge drinker, and I&#8217;m a huge non-drinker. It was easy for me to change the channel. But you have to spend money if you <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">live<\/a> in the world. You have to spend money and you have to earn money.   <\/p>\n<p><strong>What would you say is the ultimate message of &#8220;Bad With Money&#8221;? <\/strong><br \/>\nI think money is just such a taboo. I&#8217;m an alcoholic in recovery, and I&#8217;ve noticed that it&#8217;s very easy to talk about that in the world, not just because I&#8217;m open about it, but it&#8217;s just out there. People talk about it. That&#8217;s not true of money at all.   I hope that people who see my show will talk about money, and I hope it&#8217;ll open them up to being more communicative with the people in their lives and with themselves about money. I think that can only be a good thing.   <\/p>\n<p><em>Ben Rimalower&#8217;s &#8220;Bad With Money&#8221; plays New York&#8217;s Duplex Cabaret Theatre through Nov. 6. For more information, <a href=\"http:\/\/badwithmoney.net\/\" target=\"_hplink\">head here<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This interview has been edited for content and length. <br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/09\/11\/ben-rimalower-bad-with-money-_n_5784212.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&#038;ir=Gay+Voices\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/09\/11\/ben-rimalower-bad-with-money-_n_5784212.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&#038;ir=Gay+Voices<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Rimalower On His New Show, &#039;Bad With Money,&#039; And How Being Gay Has Impacted His Finances In the acclaimed one-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a> show &ldquo;Patti Issues,&rdquo; Ben Rimalower used his passion for Broadway diva Patti LuPone as the foil to a deeper narrative about his fractured relationship with his father. 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