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Almost inexplicably, that is still the case 20 years later.īryan Ruby, who plays for an independent baseball league not affiliated with the MLB, became the only active pro baseball player to be publicly out just last year. The emphasis is on fictional as, in 2002, when Greenberg first wrote Take Me Out, there was no out gay player in the MLB. But it’s that “type,” and that particular daringness, that made Adams so, well, suited for his role in Take Me Out.Īt its most reductive, Greenberg’s play is the fictional story of what happens when the star player of a Major League Baseball team comes out as gay. Of course, Tom Hanks never stood fully naked in front of 500 strangers night after night in New York City (at least not to our knowledge).

He’s so downright Hanksian, as in Tom Hanks, that he’ll be the lead in the upcoming Amazon adaptation of A League of Their Own.

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There’s something so quintessentially all-American about him that he was cast as John Glenn in the recent series adaptation of The Right Stuff.

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He played the John Cassavetes role in the TV remake of Rosemary’s Baby.

Adams, who is good friends with Markle, attended the actress’s actual wedding to Prince Harry, a fact that is brought up nearly every time a journalist sits down to talk to him.īut Adams’ run on Suits helped to establish him as a certain brand of actor one could imagine would be everywhere, but requires something so intangible as to render them in short demand, even singular: the intelligent, yet sometimes irascible Everyman. His character also happened to be written off the show after marrying his coworker Rachel, who was played by Meghan Markle. It was one of the most successful cable series of the last decade and helped define USA’s brand. He was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance. It was a memorable TV run for many reasons. Noah Reid on the Power of ‘Schitt’s Creek,’ His Broadway Debut in ‘The Minutes,’ and Anti-LGBTQ Laws But it is an important piece in the massive puzzle that is the play.”Īdams is best known for playing Mike Ross, the brilliant college dropout who talks his way into a job at a high-powered New York City law firm, for seven seasons on the USA drama series Suits. “And then I read the play and realized it’s about so much more than that. “I thought, I’m gonna have to be naked? No, I don’t think I can do this play,” Adams says. For starters, audience members are required to lock up their phones in pouches before entering the theater, presumably to thwart déclassé leaks of those scenes. The scenes arrive differently now than they did when the original 2002 production won three Tony Awards and cemented Richard Greenberg’s play as a seminal work of theater that discusses gay themes. That’s an echo of most people’s knowledge of the show, especially since it opened at the beginning of April to rave reviews… and countless headlines over the sequences in the show that find most of the cast, including Adams and Grey’s Anatomy alum Jesse Williams, dropping their towels for a scene in which the baseball team hits the showers. “Gay, baseball, and naked onstage,” he laughs, talking recently via Zoom. Adams was offered a role in the Broadway revival of Take Me Out, he only knew three basic things about the play.