Ryan Murphy's dance musical 'Pose' strikes gold with a strong LGBTQ cast
by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times
Jun 05, 2018
3 minutes
"Strike a pose," Madonna commanded in the 1990 single "Vogue." It's the very pose meant by the title "Pose," a new series set against a New York City backdrop of late-1980s LGBTQ black and Latino ball culture, when self-styled "houses" went head to head in underground battles of fabulousness. (The scene, it should be noted, continues to thrive, way beyond New York.)
Created by Ryan Murphy, Steven Canals and Murphy's "Glee" and "American Horror Story" co-creator Brad Falchuk, the series, which debuts Sunday on FX, will strike some as a fictional expansion of Jennie Livingston's 1990 documentary
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