Dylan Mulvaney cast as Anne Boleyn

[dementedpixie]

Came up on fb and thought it was satire to start with! Would put me off going to see it tbh

Try as I might I've never managed to get that worked up about DM - he's so obviously a do-anything-for-fame theatre gay who's found that larping full time has given him the fame and fortune that I doubt he is talented enough to have otherwise.

I'm not a fan of musical theatre anyway and would rather cut my own head off than go and see this, but I agree with the pps who say that including a man as one of the wives takes it to a whole other level of disrespect when everything that happened to those women was because of their sex.

There is of course an incontrovertible rationale for DM portraying Anne Boleyn as there is a direct link between DM and Anne Boleyn :

-DM [in]famously appeared in ads for Nike Sportswear

-before West Ham football club moved to the London Stadium their stadium was Upton Park which was on a site known historically for the family who used to own it

-namely Boleyn Ground after Anne Boleyn's family

QED😁

You took the words right out my mouth Eresh. 😁

I doubt he needs them, he’s already a massive tit.

😂.

I've never seen it or even read the lyrics, (I've been studiously ignoring it,) but that sounds absolutely dire. Anne was fiercely intelligent and a Reformist. I feel like The Tudors did a better job if that description is anything to go by.

Well, maybe there wasn't any outrage because most of us haven't seen it. Musical theatre really isn't my thing, and I always thought Six sounded pretty dire, despite the popular acclaim.

I am not a fan of men taking women's roles. I didn't think much of Stephen Fry playing Lady Bracknell, which is a fantastic role for a woman, and god knows there are few good enough roles for women anyway. There are times I don't mind it too much - I think Mark Rylance's all-male Twelfth Night was an interesting idea, as was Phyllida Lloyd's all-female Julius Caesar. Let's face it, these days you can do almost anything with Shakespeare and no one cares.

But it's especially insulting to have Mulvaney play Anne Boleyn, because we are all supposed to pretend he's a woman. Mulvaney is a particularly annoying little squirt who acts out a grotesque parody of womanhood.

And, as others have pointed out, the trans activists don't like it when women play trans identifying men, but they think it's fine for trans identifying men to play women.

No, I always thought it sounded like a silly, vapid premise, I know my Tudor history and I can’t stand the obnoxious genderwang creators. It irritated me vaguely how much people fawn over it and them. But I do like musicals so I might have liked the tunes.

Were you expected to believe the black lady playing Richard III was ACTUALLY a white man though, not playing a character, a white man off the stage too?

Agreed. But I think what you're missing here is the culture of the theatre world. There's been a real push to racebend and genderbend theatre roles in the last few years, with the reasoning being that theatre is just a more creatively free environment. Audiences are inherently more willing to suspend disbelief at a live performance, the thinking goes, and as long as the actor can act / sing their chops off, that's all that matters. So you'll get things like a female Hamlet or a racially-diverse array of American founding fathers, and at the moment, nobody bats an eye at this. And if you're unsure about it, you're the one being controversial.

This is the argument the other side will end up reverting to, when "Dylan is just as much of a woman as you!" fails to work for them. Then it'll be "well, it's theatre anyway, and in theatre -" 🙄

The reason people are bringing up Dylan Mulvaney's awful hammy acting, and total inability to sing this part the way it should be sung, is to make the point that even by the standards of the racebent, genderbent, anything-goes world of the theatre, this casting is pure shit. There really is no excuse for it.

May l suggest tomatoes - still in the tin !!

I have no idea. TBH the whole production was pretty shite. Once home I ordered a DVD of Richard III with Laurence Olivier playing the lead.

Easy..
Boycott.

We have so many very good, highly trained actresses - many of whom are regularly without acting work and pay the bills via part-time side jobs - it's just how the profession works, so let's support the women in the profession.

Time to stop normalising male theft of women's hard-won progress.

Well said! Fucking disgusting! Hope no one goes to see it now!

You have no idea?
Really?

There's been a real push to racebend and genderbend theatre roles in the last few years, with the reasoning being that theatre is just a more creatively free environment.

It’s been more than a few years. I found David Copperfield (2019) really hard to watch in places not because they’d done colour-blind casting and you had, say, two black characters with a white child. It just didn’t work.

There was also Ammonite (2020), about Mary Anning. I was really looking forward to it until I realised they’d ‘queered’ her which I found hugely disrespectful.

Nope- no thank you. I really hope they keep this to America and let the rest of us enjoy the show the way it was initially meant to be thanks.

Especially as there are sooooo many more roles for men than women. I've lost count of the number of plays I've seen with one female character in a sea of men.

What I find interesting (and not at all surprising) here is that the other two new cast members have won Grammies and Emmies(sp?), while Dylan has....not. The bar for the women to get a starring role on Broadway is much higher.

It’s an absolute nonsense of course, but it will have some slight interest in seeing whether Mulvaney can act at all or only gurn.

Agree. But what worries me is that it’s said all actors bring something of themselves to a role. I hope Mulvaney reins it in because I’d hate to see the feisty AB portrayed as a vapid, pink frocked simp, obsessed with shopping.

I haven’t seen anything to suggest that he’d be able to avoid it!

That is pretty much the characterisation Six has gone for already.

Best known for his irritating TikTok wank account.

Or his “viral “Days of Girlhood” series, as they put it 😂