WRITE YOUR OWN DAMN MUSICAL!
With due respect, I believe that misses my point, and by a wide mark.
I was really asking two questions. First, I was asking that since the themes of the show are not in any way gender specific, would it not be possible to have Evan Hansen be played as a (straight) woman at some point down the road, perhaps after it had been up for three or four years, with what I think would involve very little rewriting. As I said originally, I'm not very well versed in the script, I only saw the show twice, once at Second Stage and once on Broadway shortly after it opened. But I THINK it might be done by changing the sexes of Evan, Connor and Zoe. So, in no way was this an attempt to rewrite the musical into something it's not. It's the contrary, using the identical musical and not change the focus one iota.
The second question I was asking is that even assuming that it could be done, would it make sense to do it, possibly from merely a marketing perspective after several years.?
Understand that I'm not advocating this at all, it just occurred to me that the possibility might exist and I was interested in the perspective of others here. |
