Sex-Change
Sex-Change
#0Sex-Change
Posted: 5/27/06 at 2:53pm
If you could reverse the gender roles in any show, (meaning-changing all female parts to male and all male to female) what would it be?
I'll Start:
Avenue Q (Simply for Lucy and Christmas Eve to be played by men)
(Can you imaagine a men belting out "Special"?! It would be amazing!)
Yero
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/29/06
#1re: Sex-Change
Posted: 5/27/06 at 2:57pmNothing like a man dancing around to Popular.
#2re: Sex-Change
Posted: 5/27/06 at 3:04pmI'd like to see a man as "The Witch" in ITW.
To Kill A Mockingbird
#3re: Sex-Change
Posted: 5/27/06 at 3:14pm
lol- Yero, we see that all the time on fan youtube videos! 
That would be great though! (So would The Witch!)
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#4re: Sex-Change
Posted: 5/27/06 at 3:19pm
Cassie in A Chorus Line...to... Cameron.
How hot would Music and the Mirror be with a guy?
- we all know Zach is gay anyway.
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
#5re: Sex-Change
Posted: 5/27/06 at 3:23pm
I definately saw ITW with a man cast as the witch in drag...worst thing I've ever experienced in a theatre...It was just a really bad bad idea.
Cheers,
Christopher
Yero
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/29/06
#6re: Sex-Change
Posted: 5/27/06 at 3:24pmAlso a woman doing Great Big Stuff.. it's amusing just thinking about it.
neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
FranklinShepard-Inc.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/04
#8re: Sex-Change
Posted: 5/27/06 at 3:30pmI have seen a few years ago a version of How to succeed in Business... with roles sexually reversed, it worked beautifully.
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#9re: Sex-Change
Posted: 5/27/06 at 4:23pm
I HATE when they do this!!! Like Whoopie Goldberg as Pseudolis in "Forum" (Haven`t seen it but) WHAT WERE THEY THINKIG!?!?! I think after Nathan left no one really wanted to see it and they tried to rely on star power. They not only changed the sex but they also changed the race!!! Also what`s her name playing Pirelli in Sweeney Todd!
The female version of The Odd Couple was mmmmmmmm......ok!
ThankstoPhantom
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/05
#10re: Sex-Change
Posted: 5/27/06 at 4:52pmI don't see a problem with changing the race of a character unless it's a show like "Hairspray."
#11re: Sex-Change
Posted: 5/27/06 at 4:55pmI have seen a performance of JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT where The Narrator was male. Now- seeing as that is one of my favorite roles, and is FEMALE- although the guy was good- it just did NOT work for me.
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#12re: Sex-Change
Posted: 5/27/06 at 6:39pm
Pippin- As a woman called Pippi.
And the female role would turn into a male role.
Corner of the Sky would be beautiful sung by a woman.
Or even better get Brian Charles Rooney in drag.
Updated On: 5/27/06 at 06:39 PM
Yero
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/29/06
#13re: Sex-Change
Posted: 5/27/06 at 6:40pmAs long as the role isn't gender specific.. like the Narrator, I think it could work.
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#14re: Sex-Change
Posted: 5/27/06 at 6:42pm
The dancers would have to include Andy Pellick and Denis Jones.
#15re: Sex-Change
Posted: 5/27/06 at 6:51pmJust wanted to point out that "what's her name" a.k.a. Donna Lynne Champlin, playing Pirelli in Sweeney Todd, is much more complicatedthen simply reversing gender, because it fits in with the frame of the Asylum, and with Tobias' mental state as the story is recounted. ::end mini-rant::
#16re: Sex-Change
Posted: 5/27/06 at 6:54pmI've always wanted to do a production of Grease where the genders are reversed.
#17re: Sex-Change
Posted: 5/27/06 at 7:03pmI want Kim in "Bye Bye Birdie" to be played by a man just cuz "How Lovely to be a Woman" would be hillarious!
Yero
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/29/06
#18re: Sex-Change
Posted: 5/27/06 at 7:05pm
How hilarious would it be if a man was Maria in West Side Story... I Feel Pretty anyone?
Sondheim would die.
#19re: Sex-Change
Posted: 5/27/06 at 7:13pmwell not a broadway show but in my schools Musical revue i played Maureen and did over the moon and Take me or Leave me and it went really well! Updated On: 5/27/06 at 07:13 PM
#20re: Sex-Change
Posted: 5/27/06 at 7:34pm
"seeing as that is one of my favorite roles, and is FEMALE"
Actually the Narrator was written as a male and originally performed by Peter Reeves at the Abbey Theater in London.
"I HATE when they do this!!! Like Whoopie Goldberg as Pseudolis in "Forum" (Haven`t seen it but) WHAT WERE THEY THINKIG!?!?! I think after Nathan left no one really wanted to see it and they tried to rely on star power. They not only changed the sex but they also changed the race!!! "
I don't understand "Haven't seen it but..." Why would you comment with such severity if you didn't see the production? That's kind of... I don't know... it's kinda of silly and small minded. Theater history is full of performances that shouldn't have worked but did... wonderfully. Look at the Wooster Group's revival of The Emperor Jones... which by all accounts was stunning in it's original run in 1993 and it's recent revival. You shouldn't discount something just because you think it's a bad idea. Give the performer a chance to pull it off. From Ben Brantley's review of Whoopi Goldberg's performance "...her distance provides a reassuring anchor in a show that can feel gratingly overwrought. She's less fun than Mr. Lane was, but she is also more companionable."
"because it fits in with the frame of the Asylum, and with Tobias' mental state as the story is recounted"
It doesn't really. They needed a lady voice to make the ensemble work... and work it does... wonderfully. They wouldn't have had a female alienist working at an Asylum in the 1800's... and don't tell me it's supposed to be a modern Asylum... because that wouldn't really make factual sense either. These things either work or they don't. It doesn't matter the factual justification if the performer can pull it off and it doesn't detract too much... and Donna Lynne Champlin and Whoopi Goldberg pulled it off admirably in my opinion...
FIN.
kmc
broadwayjules
Stand-by Joined: 12/1/04
#21re: Sex-Change
Posted: 5/27/06 at 8:12pm
I would love to see females as the leads in The Producers.
And Linda Eder DID say that she wanted to play Don Quixote...I'd go see it...
#22re: Sex-Change
Posted: 5/27/06 at 9:32pm
Yero~ Have you seen Anger Management? Adam Sandler singing "I Feel Pretty" in falsetto is not a nice thing...
#23re: Sex-Change
Posted: 5/27/06 at 9:37pm
Unintentional thread jack:
But since we're on the topic, I'd like to do a really quick quiz for anyone who may not know. I'm San Franciscan, forgive me!
Okay class. Can someone please explain the difference between Gender and Sex? Anyone?
jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#24re: Sex-Change
Posted: 5/27/06 at 9:44pm
There was a version of "The Odd Couple" on Broadway with Sally Struthers and Rita Moreno in the lead roles.
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