
By Romeo San Vicente
Can't Stop the Music: The Musical?
If Saturday
Night Fever, Urban Cowboy, Footloose, and Xanadu
could all make it to Broadway, why not Can't Stop the Music, the
deliciously inane 1980 fiasco that tells a not-exactly-gay version of how
the Village People - the gayest vocal group ever - came to be?
New Yorkers may soon be shimmying in the aisles to "Y.M.C.A." and "Macho
Man," since plans are indeed afoot to turn Music into a Broadway
musical.
The
original movie completely heterosexualized the band that sang songs about
Fire Island and San Francisco and released an album called Live and
Sleazy, but maybe a contemporary stage version could acknowledge how
very, very gay the Village People actually were.
If nothing else, maybe it will make straight people think twice about
singing "Y.M.C.A." at weddings and sporting events.
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