The thirty-eight-year-old actor Andrew Rannells is part of a new crop of gay stars"like Chris Colfer and Tituss Burgess"who never had to bother to be closeted in the public eye. Lean and boy-faced, with lacerating comic timing, he got his break in 2011, in "The Book of Mormon," playing the bushy-tailed missionary Elder Price. (The character was nineteen, but Rannells was thirty-two at the time.) The show's runaway su…
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 12:00AM on September 30, 2016