Billy Elliot The Musical

NOW Magazine, an independent weekly entertainment paper in Toronto, recently ran a rave review of the above-titled show.  It gushed:

BILLY ELLIOT IS ONE OF THE BEST NEW MUSICALS OF THE MILLENNIUM

The review begins:

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Crossdressing as a Form of Chauvinism

Many male-to-female crossdressers assert that their crossdressing is the highest form of love of women.  But is it possible that instead it may just be a form of chauvinism or closed-minded thinking?

Mea Culpa

I am not sitting in judgment of others so much as contemplating my own existence here.

Maybe I overthink these things, but it occurs to me that part of the attraction to being female might be related to somewhat rigidly defined ideas of what is feminine behavior and what is masculine.

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High Cheekbones

One way to feminize your face is to give the illusion of high cheekbones – a surprisingly easy thing to do.

The trick here, like with many other techniques, is about creating the illusion of shadows where you want valleys and highlights where you want peaks.

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Painting Outside the Lines

(…continued from The Answer to My Prayers)

Old habits die hard.

I have talked about wanting to change the focus of my lifestyle from the safe and conservative, middle of the road to something more interesting and beautiful and sublime – painting outside the lines if you will… and that Janie’s appearance in my life helps move me in that direction.

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The Answer to My Prayers

I am, at times, very confused about who or what I am, and where this is taking me and my life. One minute, I can be ecstatic about being Janie, loving my femininity and my sexuality, tingling all over at the sheer energy I get from being her… and the next minute, I am wondering what kind of freak I am, why I pretend to be a woman when I am a man, how much of a destructive distraction all this is: harming my future, undermining my ambitions, risking my reputation, messing with my sexuality and threatening my relationship.

I think that one of the main impelling forces toward Janie’s emergence was sheer boredom with my life.

In some measure, I had worked all my life to achieve this so-called boredom.

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