#DAME 7 LIGHTS OUT MOVIE#
GHEE I had never seen the movie prior to getting the audition. Especially in that film, they’re in conversation with masculinity, and what it is. They’re not performing women, they’re performing men performing women - it’s a totally different thing.
#DAME 7 LIGHTS OUT MAC#
MAC I like it when men wear femme clothing and pretend to be women - I find that charming.
To me the important thing is the presentation: Am I funny when I’m wanting to be funny? Am I thought-provoking when I want to be thought-provoking? The dress means nothing to me anymore. JOHN EPPERSON What is it that pushes people’s buttons, whether in a positive or negative direction? To be honest, I don’t think of the dress that I wear as the important thing. There’s a power in the defiance of what you say I should be and what you say I should look like. There’s nothing quite as sexy.ĬOOPER What makes it funny is not necessarily the fact that a man is in a dress - it’s because it’s making a mockery of the norm, of what people say we should be and how people say we should act. Broadway and drag have a long history together - it’s always been there. We have a very long tradition of it, from the time that women weren’t allowed to be in theater, to the kind that has some connection to sexuality. Cooper, who is not only the writer but also stars as the flight attendant Peaches in “Ain’t No Mo’.”įIERSTEIN Drag has been with every culture through the history of humanity.
Harrison Ghee, the nonbinary performer reimagining the role of Jerry/Daphne played on film by Lemmon, and Jordan E. But many agreed to share their thoughts, including one of the stars of “Some Like It Hot,” J. We updated our casting breakdown to reflect this.”ĭiscussion about the subject is evolving and fraught: Some of those we asked to reflect on the topic declined, including both book writers of “Some Like It Hot” ( Matthew López, a Tony-winning playwright who previously wrote the drag comedy “ The Legend of Georgia McBride,” and Amber Ruffin, the comedian and talk show host). Since 1996, “Chicago” has featured a character, Mary Sunshine, played by a male soprano dressed as a woman, whose wig is dramatically removed to reinforce the line, “things are not always as they appear to be.” But the show has just posted a notice inviting performers of “any gender identity” to audition for the role asked about the change, Barry Weissler, a lead producer, said: “Our collective understanding of gender and the art of drag has evolved over the past two decades. One long-running production is now rethinking its practice. The musical adaptation of “Some Like It Hot,” a 1959 movie starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe, promises that the film’s plot and characters “have been updated for a modern audience,” and one of its lead actors is nonbinary. And many artists see drag, performed by people of all genders, as its own distinct category of stylized performance.Įach new production prompts a new round of reflection, conversation, and occasionally controversy over whether these characterizations are sexist, transphobic, dated or delightful. One can fit a number of genres and genders under a dress-wearing umbrella - there are men and male-presenting performers playing women, playing men playing women, wearing dresses for drama, wearing dresses for laughs, wearing dresses as a means of self-expression. But now this longstanding theatrical device is considerably more contested. The history of onstage cross-dressing goes way, way, way back - think of the ancient Greeks and Shakespeare, Kabuki and panto, “Hairspray” and “Matilda.” A long line of performers - Milton Berle and Martin Lawrence, Dame Edna and Tyler Perry, Monty Python and “The Kids in the Hall” - have donned dresses in the pursuit of laughs. And “Kinky Boots,” the once long-running Broadway show concerning drag-friendly footwear, has just returned to New York for a commercial Off Broadway run. This year’s Tony-winning best musical, “ A Strange Loop,” has scenes in which a goateed male actor dons a pink dress to portray the protagonist’s mother.
The new season on Broadway will also feature an audacious play, “ Ain’t No Mo’,” in which the main character is a flight attendant played by a man in drag. Doubtfire.” Now comes “Some Like It Hot,” a musical adaptation of the classic caper comedy about two men who dress as women to escape the mob. Just before the pandemic, there was “ Tootsie,” and just after the shutdown, “ Mrs.
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