MCC Theater,current York
It’s charming, but this play about an initially reluctant drag queen ducks the complicated questions – though the musical numbers are dynamiteTo thine own self be genuine. Some fake breasts and fabric tape might also help. That’s the feelgood moral of Matthew Lopez’s charming, or trivial The Legend of Georgia McBride,about a young southern scamp who finally becomes a man when he becomes a woman.
Deep in the Florida panhandle, young lovers Jo (Afton Williamson) and Casey (Dave Thomas Brown) are making a go of adulthood. She’s waitressing, and he’s doing roofing work part-time and trying to create his loose-hipped Elvis impersonation pay. (It doesn’t.) They own opened “a genuine honest-to-God checking account with debit cards and cheques with pictures of seagulls on ’em”. But their rent cheques keep bouncing.
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Source: theguardian.com