Comments | slammerkinbabe: shot of gender talk with a Broadway mixer

slammerkinbabe

shot of gender talk with a Broadway mixer

Feb 08, 2011 12:18

Last night λ and I were at Broadway Backwards 6. Once a year, in support of a local youth LGBT center, Broadway Cares brings together a concert -- increasingly star-studded as each year goes by -- in which women sing songs traditionally song by men and men sing songs traditionally sung by women, not changing most of the pronouns (usually, although ( Read more... )

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luvs_chicago February 8 2011, 17:39:33 UTC

I've never heard of this, and am very intrigued! How awesome that you guys got to go. I'm sad that I haven't heard of most of these shows/songs/actors, but am excited to see the set list. Please include a "Go check out this soundtrack!" footnote for those that I need to hear. :-D

slammerkinbabe February 9 2011, 02:18:19 UTC

I will! I always think of you here and there at Broadway performances, when there's a song I think you'd like. Obviously I didn't get around to doing my little set list/reviews tonight. Tomorrow! I want to find YouTube vids of some of the songs and performers to show -- well, all of LJ, but I don't know how many people will be interested. I think you will be in at least some of them though.

shashalnikya February 8 2011, 17:51:36 UTC

This sounds like SUCH a cool show.

I'll tell you, I'm really, really bad at not seeing gender, too. I think it's just so ingrained.

slammerkinbabe February 9 2011, 02:23:14 UTC

I know. I don't know what it would take to unlearn it. I want to raise my children* with less of an instinct towards categorization and binaries than I grew up with... but it will be hard because it's everywhere and I know I can't even identify all of it.

The show was amazing though. :)

*nonexistent as yet. Have not forgotten to make any major updates ;)

deliriums_fish February 8 2011, 17:57:22 UTC

I'LL read it!

Also

Those of you who only know her as Lilith have no idea what you're missing, and that is good, because if you did you would cry.

Who, on your FL, knows Bebe Neuwirth only as Lilith? I mean, here?

kindness_says February 8 2011, 18:08:09 UTC

I often forget that she was Lilith, probably because I was pretty young when I watched Frasier.

kindness_says February 8 2011, 18:07:30 UTC

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kindness_says February 8 2011, 18:07:52 UTC

In writing the love story (primarily of two boys) that was my Yuletide and has since sprung into several episodes of a TV show, I listened to a lot of music that I wished was less distinctly gendered, so I could apply it to them. =| Like, the "theme" to the show, you can tell, is supposed to be about a girl (although I don't think of it that way, because it was introduced to me by the friend being like, "This song reminded me of Devon and Luke.") - they say things like "flower balm perfume." Which then calls into question, WHY is that a girl thing, blah blah blah, Old Spice Guy ( ... )