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[skygiants]

If I make three posts today, I can finish up the December meme still in December! We'll ... see if that happens. Anyway, I was supposed to talk for umadoshi about one musical whose production I would like to direct/consult on and what I would like to see done with it.

Two days ago this would have been a very difficult question to answer (or at least narrow down to one) but FORTUNATELY between then and now genarti and I have come up with a BRILLIANT IDEA for a production of Guys and Dolls in which the character of Sky Masterson is a woman.

The great thing about this is that this would make my job (as director/consultant) SO EASY because you basically don't have to change anything at all, but suddenly everything grows all these fascinating edges! By magic!

I mean first of all just pause for a moment to imagine Sky Masterson, dashing and devil-may-care lesbian gambler, in the sharpest suit and hat ill-gotten gains can buy, who always manages to play with the best because luck's always on her side, and sigh a little to yourself because of JUST HOW HOT she would be. You're welcome.

OK, but then Nathan's bet with Sky -- that Sky has to seduce a nice girl, a religious girl -- and Sarah swearing that she plans to fall in love with a nice, upright moral man, and Sky lying to save Sarah's reputation, and then beating twelve gangsters in a row at dice so that they'll all go to a religious revival with her - it all gets at least five more layers, and could keep everything that's great about Guys and Dolls, INCLUDING the fabulous costumes. In fact, if I were directing, they would just raid Capital Scandal's costume closet. Floral fedoras for everyone!

(Lucy Liu as Sky Masterson? I don't know if Lucy Liu can even sing. But let's pretend she can so that we can all pause to imagine LUCY LIU AS SKY MASTERSON. Alternate fan casting also accepted.)

ETA: oh man I didn't even think about it but EVEN THE TITLE 'GUYS AND DOLLS' GETS TEN TIMES MORE SIGNIFICANT

Comments

[ambyr]

Where do I send my money to buy a ticket for this performance?

[rymenhild]

Hell, I'll invest in the production.

[skygiants]

Please see below, re: "We're Casting All Your Leading Men As Women Today" Productions, coming to a theater near you!

[grrlpup]

Yesss!

[skygiants]

GUYS AND DOLLS

GUYS AND DOLLS

it's right there in the name!!!

[imperfect_tense]

Hdbfjfjfnfjjfjg. I would watch the hrll put of this!

[skygiants]

I want it to exist SO BADLY

[gramarye1971]

I feel like there needs to be a theatre company that does an entire season of shows where at least one of the main characters is gender-swapped. Between this version, and my long-dreamed-about version of Evita where Che is a woman, I think there's a starting point for the repertoire.

[skygiants]

We could do Debi's lesbian Scarlet Pimpernel! Newsies starring cross-dressing Jackie Kelly! AN ALL-FEMALE CHESS.

[ambyr]

I have some theater tech experience. And DC has a lot of small theaters to rent out. Just saying....

[ailis_fictive]

I saw a fairly terrible production of Henry V in a set that looked like a London Underground station, and immediately conceived the idea of a production set as though it's being put on in an air raid shelter in WWII. Women, children and old or disabled men only with scratched-together costumes and props.

[adiva_calandia]

For real, though, for real, if I lived in proximity of any of y'all I would be on this like a shot. This is everything I want in theatre: fun classics with genderplay.

[musesfool]

Gina Torres for Sky? She can sing, anyway.

[skygiants]

I FORGOT GINA TORRES COULD SING, omg. *___*

[evewithanapple]

I maintain that every musical would be improved by turning some of the straight men into lesbians, and that goes triple for anything involving suits and fedoras.

(Lucy Liu was in the Chicago movie! But she didn't sing. Personally I would go with Patina Miller since we know she can pull off pinstripes)

(Also consider: LESBIAN HAROLD HILL.)

[skygiants]

How could I forget Patina Miller?! Patina Miller is PERFECT. She oozes exactly the right amount of suave!

(skdjf;ldsYES PLEASE)

[ceitfianna]

Yes!! I want to see this production since I adore Guys and Dolls but this would just make it better. And I think Damon Runyon would like the idea too as he enjoyed women in control.

Scarlett Johansson, she has that right amount of suave and danger exuding off of her and I think she can sing. Though Gina Torres and Lucy Liu would be amazing, so many choices.

[skygiants]

Obviously we'll just have to make this a standing tradition so EVERYONE can play Sky Masterson! WE COULD HAVE IT ALL.

[allchildren]

I am proud to call you friend.

[skygiants]

LIKEWISE.

[sanguinity]

LUCY LIU AS SKY MASTERSON I WOULD GIVE SO MUCH FOR THIS

[skygiants]

This would probably be my Faustian bargain. Like, who needs a soul when you COULD HAVE Lucy Liu singing "Luck, Be A Lady"?

[tree]

i love everyone in this bar.

just yesterday i was thinking about how long it's been since i saw guys and dolls and how much i wish someone would put it on again here and NOW THIS GLORIOUS IDEA EXISTS IN THE WORLD.

[skygiants]

I super want to rewatch the old one now except I know it's just going to be a disappointment to me now! PLEASE, WORLD.

[rymenhild]

"Luck Be A Lady," sung by lesbian Sky Masterson? Yes. Please.

[adiva_calandia]

STOP. I'm already on the floor over lesbian Sky Masterson in her sharp suits. HELP.

[ladymondegreen]

I totally volunteer to help work on a production of Guys and Dolls with an explicitly female Sky.

[skygiants]

We've got enough volunteers in this post! We could have a heartwarming, plucky montage of putting together an unlikely success of a production ANY DAY NOW.

[alias_sqbr]

I know almost nothing about Guys and Dolls but still wish to be signed up for your newsletter.

[skygiants]

All you need to know is lesbian gambler, in a suit, seducing Lady Luck by the sheer power of panache. That's it. That's what you need.

[umadoshi]

This sounds GLORIOUS. Yes, please!

[skygiants]

COME ON, WORLD

[opusculasedfera]

Oh my god, I need to see this immediately and at once.

[skygiants]

Right?! If we all wish hard enough then maybe we can warp reality so that it appears!

[qian]

I think I dozed through a film version of the musical, but this is all making me feel like rereading Damon Runyon. :D (And then ... lesbian Sky Masterson fanfic in Runyon prose? YES.)

[skygiants]

OH MY GOD YES. (Runyon prose! *__*)

[rymenhild]

I am here to alert you and genarti that this just happened on fail_fandomanon. (None of the good stuff is mine.)

[skygiants]

HA! I bet I know who started that thread, too. Also: YES PERFECT >:D >:D >:D