The debate over the causes of homosexuality – and whether it’s a matter of nature or nurture – has long raged, but sometime playwright, theatre critic and writer Toby Young has just thrown his hat (or maybe that should be jockstrap) into the ring that suddenly discovering a love of musicals may be turning him.
In his Spectator review of the Menier’s production of Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George, he declares that watching it, he “felt like the luckiest man alive” and that he “loved every second of it.” He concludes, “I’ve spent the past week hunting down the original Broadway cast recording.” (If only he’d asked me: a quick trip to Dress Circle might have saved him a lot of time). “Who knows,” he concludes, “by this time next year I may even have turned into a fully fledged homosexual”.
If only it were that easy, I’d be rushing to recommend visits to the Menier to Robbie Williams and David Beckham, too. It’s a pity that he’s undermined an otherwise appropriately laudatory review with such an inappropriate assumption that a love of musicals is inherently evidence of gay tendencies.
Liking musicals makes you gay?
Guess I have more in common with my parents than I thought...