"I think having an out gay cast really did inform the work and it took on a particular kind of tone because of that, which is not to say that's the only way to approach this material."
You've helped confirm my point. It's great and good to cast Jews in Funny Girl. But it's not the ONLY way and I pity the folks who are "offended".
I'm an openly gay man who liked the Transport Group's production of The Boys in the Band just as much as the Scott Rudin production. (Did his gayness make him a better producer of that show?)
Cliff Gorman- for my money- can't be beaten as Emory and he was very straight, no? |
