What's Up, Sally Mayes? The Play It Cool Star on Donning Drag in a New Jazz Musical
Though she is a self-professed “girly girl,” Sally Mayes looks positively gleeful to be wearing a severely tailored pants outfit in the new off-Broadway musical Play It Cool. Cast as the lesbian proprietor of Mary’s Hideaway, a Hollywood nightclub catering to gay patrons forced to live in the shadows circa 1953, Mayes tears into the show’s jazzy original score and flirts with a femme fatale ch…