Gender Flipping Theater - Dreamcasting

[macbeth]

Posted: 3/25/21 at 9:13am

The new COMPANY will be back promo had me thinking of other musicals that might open up new perspectives with gender flipped characters. 

Might we see a female Mark in RENT? A female SWEENEY TODD? I also remember the brief Nathan Lane as Dolly rumors that I'd have jumped on. 

What do you think? 

[Theatrefanboy1]

Posted: 3/25/21 at 9:21am

Gypsy - mama rose. Cheyenne Jackson
Sweeney Todd - Alice ripley
Wicked. Glinda Elphaba. Jeremy Jordan and Aaron tveit
West side - Maria - Johnathan Groff (or him as Millie)
Night music. - madam a. Ian McKellan

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 3/25/21 at 12:49pm

I think Hamilton should open itself up to gender bend casting. Specifically, Khaila Wilcoxon as Aaron Burr. Heather Headley as Hermès in Hadestown has also been on my mind

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 3/26/21 at 7:05am

I think Reza’s ART with three women would be fab.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 3/26/21 at 8:25am

Billy Porter as Mame
as Mame/Vera in alternating perfs, Richard E, Grant and Stanley Tucci 
Lea Delaria as Horace 
Sandra Oh as the Engineer 
Wanda Sykes as Pseudolus 
Billie Piper as any Anthony Newley role
Robert Downey, Jr. as Mrs. Anna, Ashley Park as the KIng
Audra as Macheath 
Lauren Ambrose as Stine, Janelle Monáe as Stone

 

Updated On: 3/26/21 at 08:25 AM

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 3/26/21 at 12:28pm

In the theoretical suggestions, I would also say it would be helpful to say which roles one thinks should be gender-switched (such as Bobbi being played by a female as a female in Company, or making the character Poppa Rose) or which ones people think should be played in drag. Like the suggestion of Nathan Lane in Hello, Dolly!, is the idea that he is playing Dolly as written, or is the character itself being gender-switched. 

[sinister teashop]

Posted: 3/26/21 at 12:32pm

There was or is a gender flipped GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS in the works directed Amy Morton.

Updated On: 3/26/21 at 12:32 PM