| re: Could Sweet Charity be done as a gay version? | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 09:38 am EST 02/26/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Could Sweet Charity be done as a gay version? - lordofspeech 07:27 pm EST 02/25/19 | |
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| So, in this version, was Charity aware that Oscar didn't know that she was a drag queen? If so, that really changes the character in the sense that she's now lying to him throughout. If she was not, that's an interesting thing to try to play and I wonder how such a thing would never have come up in conversation between them...is their relationship just THAT superficial? And it also begs the question about whether Charity and Oscar are having sex or not. I've always just kind of assumed that they were (in more traditional productions), because Charity is clearly not a virgin and the stakes for her in having sex are pretty non-existent, unlike for a "good" girl of the period. (And I use that word "good" purely as shorthand, not a value judgement...I'm sure that by the mid-to-late 60's, lots of "good" girls were also having sex outside of marriage.) And, for Oscar, even if he's a completely socially deficient nerd, there's not really any stakes at all regarding sex...the difference between being a man and being a woman. But that idea puts an entirely different spin on the ending and one that would seem to justify Oscar's complete 180 degree turn around, that, in a traditional production, comes out of nowhere. We haven't seen anything in the writing, from the scene in which Charity and Oscar meet to the scene in which he abruptly leaves her, that indicates that he has any issues with her at all and they seem to have a rather sweet, traditional relationship where each one's baggage complements the other's. If it suddenly hits Oscar that his fiancée is actually a man in drag, that's a pretty good justification for his departure. And, if all that can be played by the actors without actually rewriting the script, that would be a really interesting thing to see. |
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