Raise your curtains of preconception and imagine a musical: There’s a spunky, sexually adventurous gay boy pursued by a hardworking man, a few years older, who wants tame the young’un and his wandering eye and get domestic. There’s a sheltered, uncomfortably ambiguous girl, torn between the attentions of a slow-burning hunk and a worldly woman. The voice of wisdom belongs to an elderly transgender aunt. Is this the latest work from the creators of Hedwig? An acting maxi-challenge on Drag Race? The fever dream of a progressive millennial show queen? In fact, it’s the groundbreaking 75th anniversary production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! playing through October at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, one of the largest and most widely acclaimed American nonprofit theater companies.
No one really wants to see this.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 20, 2018 6:15 PM |
They already made it and called it "Tales of the City".
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 20, 2018 6:17 PM |
R2 = sourpuss hag re-re-rewatching 'Golden Girls' on permanent DVD rotation.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 20, 2018 6:19 PM |
I'm actually stunned that the R&H estate approved this. They don't usually support radical re-interpretations.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 20, 2018 7:05 PM |
P.R.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 20, 2018 7:08 PM |
I never get why people want to take heterosexual musicals like this or "On a Clear Day" and make them over as gay stories. It never works.
It's like all these movies now being re-made with women in the male roles ("Ghostbusters" and "Ocean's Eight'). It's so gimmicky.
Instead of re-writing an old work, write a new musical with gay characters, or write a movie with female protagonists. Otherwise you're saying gay men are only fit to borrow from straight people and women are only fit to borrow from men.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 20, 2018 7:19 PM |
Stupid is
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 20, 2018 8:04 PM |
Ridiculous.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 20, 2018 8:59 PM |
"write a new musical with gay characters,"
And watch the DataLounge queens descend like harpies and trash it before it's even in rehearsals.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | June 20, 2018 9:02 PM |
Ryan Landry is a world class asshole. That is all.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | June 20, 2018 9:24 PM |
it's a classic musical with gay characters, R 10. Nothing new here. Just an exercise in directorial masturbation.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | June 20, 2018 9:31 PM |
R5, you quite literally posted verbatim what I was going to post.
Back in the 1990s there was a gay porn film called Oklahomo! It was about gay cowboy Curly vying with gay farmer Jud for the attentions of gay twink farmhand Laurie and who gets to take Laurie to the "box" social. Naturally it has sex scenes instead of musical numbers.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | June 20, 2018 9:41 PM |
I know the house, the area, the audience. Just cannot see this. OklahoNO
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | June 20, 2018 9:41 PM |
Fucking stupid
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | June 21, 2018 2:53 AM |
Ensemble number: "The Cowboy and The Farmer Should Be Friends"
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | June 21, 2018 2:59 AM |