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| re: Alex Newell in OOTI...curious, yet sensitive questions | |
| Posted by: dlevy 10:00 am EST 01/09/18 | |
| In reply to: Alex Newell in OOTI...curious, yet sensitive questions - Oldvirgil1 12:31 am EST 01/09/18 | |
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| I can't speak to #2, but a fewof other cross-gender roles I can think of are when Mary Tyler Moore took over the lead in "Whose Life Is It Anyway" (and won a special Tony Award for her performance) and when Lea DeLaria played Eddie/Doctor Scott in The Rocky Horror Show, and when she Marryin' Sam in the Encores! production of Li'l Abner. Whoopi Goldberg played Psuedolus in the 90s revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum on Broadway. More recently, Helen Hunt played the Stage Manager in Our Town off-Broadway. I'm sure there are others. | |
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| re: Alex Newell in OOTI...curious, yet sensitive questions | |
| Posted by: jurinac 12:26 pm EST 01/09/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Alex Newell in OOTI...curious, yet sensitive questions - dlevy 10:00 am EST 01/09/18 | |
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| A quibble, perhaps -- but when Mary Tyler Moore did WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY? and Helen Hunt did OUR TOWN, they played those roles as women. This is perhaps closest to what Merle Dandridge has been doing as Papa Ge in ONCE ON THIS ISLAND -- she looks her female self, and "Papa" just sounds like part of her name. (Also, on IBDB, at least, she's called "Demon of Death," while Salonga's Erzulie is called "Goddess of Love" and Newell's Asaka is called "Mother of the Earth.") I didn't see the other performances you mention (DeLaria in ROCKY HORROR and LI'L ABNER, Goldberg in FORUM), but it's my understanding that in those cases the genital females were costumed and directed to read either as genitally male or neutral. That's closer to what Alex Newell's doing in ISLAND. |
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| re: Alex Newell in OOTI...curious, yet sensitive questions | |
| Last Edit: JereNYC 12:55 pm EST 01/09/18 | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 12:54 pm EST 01/09/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Alex Newell in OOTI...curious, yet sensitive questions - jurinac 12:26 pm EST 01/09/18 | |
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| Goldberg's Pseudolus was definitely female, even without changing the name, and even ended up with Miles Gloriosus at the end, but DeLaria did play Eddie, Dr. Scott, and Marryin' Sam as men. | |
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