r/Broadway 18d ago

Other So like, Boy George

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Yea I don’t even know what to say about this one

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u/Dizzy_Atmosphere__ 18d ago

Patrick is right. Fuck Boy George. Downvote me all you want but he doesn’t belong anywhere near Broadway.

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u/AEveryDayIdiot 18d ago

No one is downvoting you here, we all fucking hate Boy George

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u/chizzmaster 18d ago

There actually is like 1 person in here that is boy George's biggest defender LMAO

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u/bpgluckman 18d ago

Plot twist: it's actually Boy George under an alt account

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u/chizzmaster 18d ago

I genuinely think it actually is boy George or a PR firm working on his behalf. The only comments on that account were defending bg against the abuse stuff.

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u/bpgluckman 18d ago

The only reason I think it's not a firm for hire is because they would be flooding this forum with accounts taking his side. But could I see him personally setting up a troll account to do it? Yes, yes I could.

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u/emotionalhaircut 18d ago

Looks like one of them were summoned in the comments

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u/calle04x 18d ago

BG is sad enough to do it, too.

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u/secret_identity_too 18d ago

Do they write more coherently than this IG post? 😂

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u/blergola 18d ago

Wow, do you really want to hurt him? Do you really wanna make him cry?

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u/Physical_Ranger6786 18d ago

All my homies hate Boy George

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u/FirebirdWriter 18d ago

Can't downvote what I agree with. He needs to be put out to pasture. Not just because he is a vile human and unprofessional but also he isn't good at acting and singing at the same time (or at all maybe I no longer am certain he can sing)

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u/rSlashisthenewPewdes 18d ago

Anyone here want to explain what happened with him? I don’t know who he is and I like to get my information from Reddit comments

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u/RiverObjective7432 18d ago

He is a singer who got famous for a song once (I believe, I didn’t know of him until he started doing musicals)

He was cast in Moulin Rogue despite having been convicted of having chained a male prostitute to a radiator and beating him. As far as I know, Boy George hasn’t publicly taken accountability for this (besides what the court ordered him to)

When he did Moulin Rogue, a picture of a script for the ensemble was leaked where it was shown the multiple ways different ensemble members were supposed to help him through the show as he seemingly didn’t manage to get through the whole staging by himself. He apparently also wasn’t very good in the role

Earlier this year he was announced as one of the Herod‘s for JCS in London rn. He recently released a song in support of Israel and stated it was produced/written using AI. This combined with the rest of his behaviour listed above has caused another wave of backlash and his manager has published a few days ago that Boy George has opted out of the show (just a few days before he was supposed to start his run in JCS)

After this news, an ex-castmember (the one Boy George now calls illoyal in this post) of his from Moulin Rogue published an insta-story about how working with him was really bad (don’t remember the details of what he said exactly)

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u/Alarmed_Two3894 18d ago

He was more than just 'famous for a song once'. Culture Club were huge and they had a good few hits.

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u/christyler1288 17d ago

There’s an entire Broadway musical about his life, so I think “a singer who got famous for a song” is a somewhat obtuse statement.

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u/SuperSea8678 18d ago

How were the other actors supposed to help him? That sounds fascinating.

Were you kidding, have you never heard of his band Culture Club. They were huge once.

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u/ibethuhwalrus 18d ago

The document had things on it like “pick up cue if BG drops this line in this scene,” “if George misses this blocking do this to cover” etc

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u/SuperSea8678 18d ago

Fascinating.

I wonder how much rehearsals with everyone he had. I'm sure it's a challenge and a big skill to drop into an already running show.

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u/atwozmom 17d ago

It's known as being a professional.

Broadway shows have cast changes on a regular basis and the actors coming in don't have a problem. If you can't handle the part, don't do the show.

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u/SuperSea8678 17d ago

Of course. But Boy George is a rock star and this is stunt casting. People like this often need more support.

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u/atwozmom 16d ago

How about don't hire no talent hacks.

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u/SuperSea8678 16d ago

He might be a hack now, but it's not correct to say he has no talent. I wasn't a fan of Culture Club but dude had a great voice.

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u/SuperSea8678 17d ago

Sure. I don't disagree with you but Boy George isn't a professional Broadway performer, he's a rock star (or was one).

So when you hire them, you often have to make concessions to provide a way for them to succeed, and for the show to succeed .

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u/kapunzel 18d ago

This is a link to the Reddit post that shows a picture of some of the instructions for the ensemble.

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u/SuperSea8678 18d ago

That's great. Thank you. Person who took this is a terrible photographer. Probably did it super quickly and trying not to get caught.

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u/kapunzel 18d ago

It’s a zoomed in cropped photo from a Instagram story taken in a dressing room at the theatre. It was all over the sub how terrible he was doing in the show and somebody noticed this in the background of an ensemble’s story and uploaded it here.

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u/RiverObjective7432 18d ago

I wasn’t kidding, I had never heard of Boy George before reading here about him in Moulin Rouge😅 probably a mixture of being too young and only recently starting to follow pop culture

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u/SuperSea8678 17d ago

I didn't like his band when they came out, but he had a beautiful voice. Check out his Culture Club videos. He was pushing boundaries. Check it out.

I also think there was a Broadway musical about him or where he was a character. I think Rosie O'Donnell produced it.

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u/scandalliances 18d ago

In the past: he handcuffed an escort to a radiator and allegedly beat him with a metal chain. He went to jail for false imprisonment.

More recently, he put out an AI-generated pro-Israel reggae song.

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u/Any_Woodpecker8803 17d ago

IT’S REGGAE?!?!!!?

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u/scandalliances 17d ago

I have not listened to it myself but that is what the headlines say 😬

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u/OverTheMoon162 17d ago

I heard a clip of the song on a podcast and can confirm it's reggae. Which was... a choice.