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American Utopia’s Mustachioed Standout on Bringing Queerness to David Byrne’s Show “I feel like we put in just the right amount of camp and just the right amount of wink to really hold space for that cheesy showiness that we love about Broadway.” Tendayi Kuumba and Chris Giarmo in  American Utopia .   HBO In Spike Lee’s film of David Byrne’s  American Utopia , an ensemble of 16 musicians and vocalists fill the stage of Broadway’s Hudson Theatre, moving freely around one another, all wearing identical gray suits. Throughout the film, which premieres on HBO and HBO Max on Saturday, one performer really pops out: Chris Giarmo, whose sparkly eye shadow, expressive mustache, and precise dancing make him a kind of bedazzled counterpoint to his monochrome bandmates. A downtown fixture who, like everyone in the cast, made his Broadway debut in  American Utopia , Giarmo—along with his fellow dancer and vocalist Tendayi Kuumba—is onstage nearly every moment in the show, singin...