dog and pony show

You may have read by now that Johnny Galecki (who played David on TV's "Rosanne") has a nude scene in the new play The Little Dog Laughed, and that audiences have been wowed by his impressive ... range.
I'm here to tell you that there are many reasons to go see this sizzling show at Second Stage Theater, and that Johnny's big dog is only part of the attraction.
Even better: Julie White. In a word, she's brilliant. She plays a fast-talking Hollywood agent to a closeted leading man (think Kevin Spacey but with a very Tom Cruise edge). Never mind that she's a lesbian; she urges her client to keep quiet about his sexuality as they try to aquire a sought-after script from a famous gay playwright.
Douglas Carter Beane, who wrote not only this play but also the script for To Wong Foo, clearly knows the biz, and he illustrates the war between Hollywood and the Big Apple in spiteful, inspired language that had me literally guffawing a time or two.
Julie's role can be a bit one-note, playing both narrator and sideshow, and the beginning of the first act drags. But as Carter Beane's mouthpiece, she spews forth deliciously hateful truths about Tinsel Town, queer people and human nature itself.
I'm sure half the audience in the theater last night (lots of old gay men) turned out just to see Johnny's cock, but it was the dyke on stage who stole the bone.