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Jake Shears Gets Serious About Acting, The Persecution Of Queer People And Performing In Drag

Jake Shears Gets Serious About Acting, The Persecution Of Queer People And Performing In Drag
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As one of the more theatrical performers in music today, it’s surprising that Jake Shears is just now making his professional acting debut. The 36-year-old singer, whose theater experience includes cowroting the score for the stage musical adaptation of Tales of the City in 2011, is on hiatus from his beloved pop band Scissor Sisters and is appearing in the Los Angeles revival of Bent, Martin Sherman’s emotionally-devastating 1979 play about the triumph of the human spirit during the persecution of gays by Nazis in pre-WWII Germany.

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