All good actor hides a great actress
Are you an actor? You are convinced of your talent, but you are also fed up with castings that are nowhere to be found, sometimes (this is also necessary to say), because of your character a little too superbly demanding? Well, don’t turn around – buy a good wig and a dress that combines it, get up inside your mere queer And introduce yourself to a casting convened exclusively for actresses. With a little luck, and even if it is cheat, there you will succeed, and maybe you can even get the role of your life!
If you practice cinephilia, you know that this is precisely what happened to Dustin Hoffman of Tootsiethe notable comedy directed in 1982 by Sidney Pollack which became an instantaneous classic of a genre that has always been able to make very humorous benefit from this of gender change. And that, between smiles and laughter, it has been possible to allow at the same time playing with ambiguity and transgressions that sometimes had other theoretically more serious genres.
Well, you know how things work on Broadway and the West End London and everything: the dominant trend in recent years shows that any successful movie, especially if it is a comedy, has many numbers to become a colorful musical. Into Tootsie It was time for him in 2019. And it can be said that the show fell in good hands. Especially in terms of his musical themes, signed by one of the most idiosyncratic talents among those who are currently running by the Anglo -Saxon musical. I’m talking about David Yazbek who has also put score and letter to the striptease of a handful of unemployed workers (The Full Monty), to the most nervous Almodovian girls (Women on the Virgin of a Nervous Breakdown) or to the most conciliatory face – for something its origins are Lebanese, Israelites and Italian – of the eternal conflict between Arabs and Jews (The Visit’s Band).
In any case, it is worth saying that when Tony’s Night arrived, the most coveted prizes in the American stage universe was not him but Robert Hornthe author of the booklet of the show, who won an award at home. Which, beyond recognizing the brilliant writing of fun, did not stop some voices from questioning it a bit. And the reason is that since 1982 it has rained a lot. Very very much, in terms of how the genre -related stereotypes are visualized in a stage or on a screen, and how the characters are represented, which for one reason or another change gender.
But now it is not a matter of getting too demanding with this Michael Dorsey played in our house for Ivan Labandawho has decided to transform into Dorothy Michaels and, once in a mad sitcom that will test his identity, now turns out that he has fallen in love with a work company, Julie Encarnada here for Diana Roig (You see that the cast is full, with well -known names), which may not quite understand what pole the Dorothy goes. What a mess!
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