BIGOTRY AT THE BURLESQUE Some swan songs will never sound sweet. Take the fade-out of female impersonators in Elizabethan drama. Or the final white thespian to wear blackface. Or"well, witness the demise of the "nance," an effeminately nelly, stereotypically gay travesty (often a self-mocker like the African-American entertainers who "corked up" in minstrel shows). Every […]
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:48PM on July 7, 2017