Sunday, January 29, 2012

3 Bold Feminist Musicals

Rent
This 1990's rock opera musical embodies the spirit of expressing gender and sexuality. Throughout the show, the audience meets heterosexuals, homosexuals, transvestites, etc. Because of this, one of the major themes throughout the musical is free expression and openness toward gender and sexuality.
La Vie Boheme

Avenue Q
Avenue Q is a contemporary musical about puppets having sex, coming out, and finding their purposes in life. Altogether, the show looks like a bizarre combination between Jeff Dunham and Sesame Street.  But nevertheless, it proudly embraces diversity.
If You Were Gay

The Sound of Music
The first curtain for The Sound of Music was in 1959.  And with it, the world was shocked. In this show, we see a simple postulant disobey a military landowner as she tries to teach his children how to live and love. Never before had nuns ever been so bold.
Sixteen Going on Seventeen



-Written by Michael Herman

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