Dylan Mulvaney cast as Anne Boleyn

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

In a local theatre we saw Richard III, the lead played by a black woman.

As you say, just why???

Same. Already booked 😔

Well it would explain the failure to produce an heir

(Yes, I know she produced Elizabeth)

Ffs! I had tickets for a couple of months ago and couldn’t make it so planned to get tickets for this year. On principle I won’t pay money to see that.

Castrati had a very particular sound because castration pre puberty affects long bone growth. Castrati grew unusually tall, with a long, deep ribcage, but had a pre-puberty voice box. So not like a woman’s voice in tone or timbre, but with a typically female range.
I love listening to a counter tenor for the particular sound, it isn’t like listening to a contralto. A few adult men do naturally have a soprano range, it’s interesting to hear the difference.
Six isn’t an opera so I very much doubt that DM has been cast for his vocal range, ability to sing Handel arias or coloratura. Perhaps for his skills in attempting to impersonate teenage girls ?

People worried, if you are going to Broadway, you will see him (if he goes ahead in the role), if anywhere else I think it’s just NYC so you won’t.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Seriously? I cannot stop laughing at that. Sir Ian McKellan popped into my head street away. I saw him on the Tube once. 😁

Oh fuck off. Despite Anne Boylen's disdain for Catherine (of Aragon) and Mary, the poor woman had several miscarriages, wanted to breastfeed Elizabeth, was framed for things I don't believe were true, and was killed by her husband. I feel like this makes a mockery of her life.

Will she be able to do the accent?

She who?

The whole musical makes a mockery of her life.

It's not like this is a reverent, sincere, theatrical production of her life with DM thrown in.

Where was the outrage for Ann Boleyn when they've got her character singing lines about doing what her daddy tells her to, how politics isn't her thing, how she's "fitter" than CoA, and how she's going to flirt with men to make Henry "jell"?

Why is the outrage only now that DM is involved?

I might go just to throw mouldy veg at him.

More men pushing drag on us. I saw Unfortunate the musical, it was AMAZING. The lead was a fat middle aged woman and she was incredible. I could even live with the extremely sexist joke at the end because the pretty young thing was being played by a man. It was a really interesting upending of power dynamics. Now however they have a man playing the lead role. I have no interest is that. It is like Hairspray, can't let a fat middle aged woman on the stage, it has to be a man in drag.

Could be worse - at least he isn't playing jane seymour

Ha! Not giving misogynists my money, thanks

See, they could be upfront about it, and make the fact that Mulvaney is a bloke, part of the joke.

I'm sure there are loads of puns you can come up with around 'chop it off', etc.

Make it into a camp, drag queenie type show, loosely based on historical events.

But stop claiming it's the slightest bit empowering, or anything to uplift women.

Lol, have you lot been making Manne Boleyn jokes on X?

Do you not see the difference between a show about women, performed by womenl, leveraging female stereotypes to rethink and reindividualise the women of an extremely well known historic occurance outside the dominant narrative, and a show about the same women and events where one of those women is played by a man who can only be considered a "woman" if you take those very stereotypes as fundamental and definitional of womanhood, and if the female biology and procreative role that was so fundamental to all of them in their role as queen (and to Bolyen's story perhaps the most) being some sort of side thing some humans experience but nothing to do with the business of being a woman at all?

Just looked this up, when did Dylan get breast implants?

I think most of us are more concerned with the lack of XX chromosomes than his vocal ability.

You can dress it up as much as you want, the fact is that everyone was apparently happy for this show to bimble on for years cheapening ABs life / story (although you can certainly make it sound more palatable by calling it "reindividualising" I suppose).

It's only now there's a trans person involved that everyone's suddenly decided it's disrespectful.

That is because it is disrespectful. On a whole other level.

Women (female people) have a right to our own stories and voices. The shit that happened and happens to us because of our bodies, good and bad, and the way our real lives are reframed and constrained by social stereotypes laid on our bodies, is something trans women will never experience.

Hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of women over history have been blamed, sidelined, divorced or murdered because they did not produce the desired male heir. None of them were trans women.

Through history, women have been shunted into gender roles that give us status but also limit and constrain us. Trans women take these constraints and believe they are the definition of us.

If you really can't see why this matters, if you value female voices and experiences so little you are happy to have men stand in for us and think it's the same, I feel very sorry for you.

Although top points for "dress up" - funny how some dressing up matters to you and some doesn't.

Doesn't surprise me at all. The programme is pronoun central. And they write about being shocked by how binary their conception of gender was when they first conceived the show.

I would like to put it on record that I have always thought the show was fatuous fuckwittery penned by 2 immensely privileged young (at the time) people who think feminism was invented at the time of the spice girls

DM involvement just adds another layer of fuck off to the far side of fuck to me