{"id":261526,"date":"2026-06-10T04:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T04:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/261526\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T04:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T04:21:08","slug":"heated-rivalry-the-unauthorized-parody-mckittrick-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/261526\/","title":{"rendered":"Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Parody | McKittrick Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By rights, Dylan MarcAurele\u2019s raunchy musical spoof of HBO&#8217;s skate-away success about gay hockey players should not be nearly as funny as it is. But as directed by Alan Kliffer, this scrappy show is an unexpected delight in the irreverent camp tradition of\u00a0Silence! The Musical!\u00a0and the original Asylum production of\u00a0Titanique. Writer-composer MarcAurele rolls out a seemingly inexhaustible series of double entendres, and\u00a0the high-spirited cast of five actors\u2014led by grade-A cuties Jimin Moon and Jay Armstrong Johnson as the central couple\u2014score with nearly every shot they take.\u00a0Most of the show\u2019s comedy stems from the tonal clash between the steamy subject matter and the earnestness of traditional musical theater, and it wouldn\u2019t work if the cast (which also includes Ryann Redmond, Ryan Duncan and Cherry Torres) weren\u2019t experts at the latter. It\u2019s\u00a0knowingly silly but also, sneakily, just a little sexy, too. It knows how to wink both ways at once.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/news\/theater-review-the-heated-rivalry-musical-shoots-and-scores-052726\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full review.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By rights, Dylan MarcAurele\u2019s raunchy musical spoof of HBO&#8217;s skate-away success about gay hockey players should not be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[47764,7746,7743,2526,9,11,10,7744,905,48663],"class_list":["post-261526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-event-type-off-broadway","tag-event-type-plays-shows","tag-featured-theater-featured","tag-good-for-good-for-locals","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-price","tag-theater","tag-theater-comedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}