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| re: Genuine question: are LGBT people well-represented in Broadway musicals? | |
| Posted by: Thom915 09:37 pm EDT 10/29/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Genuine question: are LGBT people well-represented in Broadway musicals? - KingSpeed 09:17 pm EDT 10/29/17 | |
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| Lola is in both the movie and the musical perceived to be gay. There is nothing in the writing, the direction or the performance to indicate anything else. Harvey said something very provocative about Lola being a straight cross dresser but wrote absolutely nothing to back up that statement. One could either by direction or performance play Lola as a heterosexual crossdresser but one would get little aid from the actual book of the musical. One could just as easily play Auntie Mame as a lesbian love story between Mame and Vera with Gooch as an obvious distraction. | |
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| The following yesr, harvey wrote casa valentina | |
| Posted by: dramedy 11:37 pm EDT 10/29/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Genuine question: are LGBT people well-represented in Broadway musicals? - Thom915 09:37 pm EDT 10/29/17 | |
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| He wasmon some crusade to prove that straight men dressed in drag. I really think thst is shown in kinky boots. | |
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| re: Genuine question: are LGBT people well-represented in Broadway musicals? | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 11:19 pm EDT 10/29/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Genuine question: are LGBT people well-represented in Broadway musicals? - Thom915 09:37 pm EDT 10/29/17 | |
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| But Harvey wrote it. | |
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| re: Genuine question: are LGBT people well-represented in Broadway musicals? | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 11:13 pm EDT 10/29/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Genuine question: are LGBT people well-represented in Broadway musicals? - Thom915 09:37 pm EDT 10/29/17 | |
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| Reminds me of a wonderful production of Hairspray I saw that made one misguided change - making the character of Edna a crossdressing gay man ("Eddie"). The problem was that since the book really doesn't support that, it didn't make much of an impact, and whatever statement they were trying to make with it was lost in the shuffle. It just didn't matter in the long run. I think it wound up being more confusing (to those of us who knew the show beforehand) than anything else. | |
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