Another issue, especially in a modern re-telling, is that I'm not sure that go-go dancing in a club carries the stigma in the gay community that the taxi dancing does in the original show. Once you've crossed that societal line of coming out as gay, is dancing on a bar really that much of a taboo?
Now if we're saying that Charity/the male Charity character is a prostitute, as in the original Fellini film, THAT might carry that stigma. But, in the original show, the point is made that Charity doesn't do anything more than dancing, and a musical about a sweet, gay prostitute might be straying a bit far from the premise.
Now, I think a musical about a contemporary gay guy approaching 30, or even 40, who's trying to figure out a way out of his life as a sex worker in the 21st Century is great idea. But I think that character's life and times would be really far removed from anything that Charity experiences. |
