'The Legend of Georgia McBride,' on stage in Tucson June 8-24, is more about family and acceptance than the ongoing culture battle over drag shows.
Cathalena E. Burch As Republican legislatures nationwide, including Arizona, move to ban and restrict drag shows, Arizona Theatre Company is jumping into the thick of the issue with its season-closing production of “The Legend of Georgia McBride.”
People are also reading… But the ongoing Republican backlash against drag shows has shifted the attention, prompting some theater companies and their creatives to get out in front of the issue. Since January, several Republican-led states, including Arizona, have proposed legislation to ban or restrict drag shows. The moves follow Florida’s decision last spring to outlaw public schools from teaching gender identity and sexual orientation in a bill that many dubbed “Don’t Say Gay.”
August cited more recent examples of “great and important characters” created and played by men, including Dustin Hoffman’s “Tootsie,” Tyler Perry’s “Madea,” and Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in the 1959 comedy “Some Like It Hot.”
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