Yeah, the whole conversation seems silly to me on a factual level. Taking one show about prostitutes and one with a prostitute and arguing that they are evidence that Cy Coleman had some particular, tawdry obsession with prostitution is more than a little unfair. We're talking about 16% of his body of work that grows when you start adding in, "Well, so and so is for all intents and purposes a prostitute" or "this other show about New York in the 70s acknowledges the existence of prostitution."
By that logic, we could ask, "Why is Jerry Herman obsessed with drag queens?" Sure, he only did the one drag queen musical, but at least three of the characters he is most associated with are, "for all intents and purposes," drag queens. |
