By Advocate.com Editors

Originally published on Advocate.com June 07 2001 12:00 AM ET

The New York Post reports that out actor Gary Beach, currently sailing across the stage as The Producers’ flamboyant Roger De Bris, will not reveal on whom the creation is based. “Can’t tell that,” Beach remarks, “or I’ll be dead.” He intimates that the character is perhaps a collective one, adding, “If in your lifetime you’ve been in at least two musicals in the theater, then you definitely know a Roger De Bris.”