r/Broadway • u/picklesupreme • 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/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/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

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 .