I want to take that dancer discussion a bit further and say: I miss the female dancers. I miss both the male-female as well as the female-female interaction. In the end, this dancing does very little for me if the quality is not there and the message is well, whatever it may be. For the most part I look elsewhere, obviously towards Adam preferably, occasionally on Terrence, because he does have a gorgeous bod. And of course I enjoy the singing and Adam's part of the performance.
What I am posting here is not about what he should do, that is his choice, but rather how I perceive, what he is offering up on stage. it's just an opinion.
My head is saying: This is good, he is traveling through many countries where homosexuality is less than accepted and in fact he will have to tone it down a bit and obviously he wants to push it as far as he can go in a mainstream international show...and that is all fine.
But I do admit, I miss that universal message that GNT had where straight and gay and lesbian and all colors of the rainbow were fine and playing together. Oh, the illusion of harmony. WAG, on the other hand, is much more of a gay show, but what is the message? Look, I am trespassing? Maybe, but what's the point?
If Adam is trying to teach me how it feels when the world constantly offers up the kind of sexuality that you happen to not be interested in, then he is succeeding, because Adam is the masculine tease (I don't care one bit that it is make-believe) and then the rest of the show is all gay. It is fine for what this short tour is, a celebration together with the Glamily, who obviously show up to his concerts no matter whether there are dancers or what these dancers are doing. But I do perceive this show as much more left-field than GNT was and he does corner himself a bit more than he needs to. In my mind he could give a little here and offer the illusion. It's theater and entertainment, after all.
I also think that Adam is not helped by somebody who quite obviously overtakes him on the Kinsey scale. And Johnny Rice does show it off too. Adam deserves the spot of proudly being the most colorful bird on the stage and J. is throwing shade, tbh. and he has no business doing so. This is Adam's show.
I miss both Sasha and Brooke, I miss the better execution of the dancing, whether it is free style or not, and I miss the message of universality of the GNT show. This tour may be called the we are Glamily tour, but I feel less connected or at home with this family than in the more diverse last one, where everyone had a place.
Obviously, Adam can pretty much do whatever he wants show-wise and I will gladly come to any one close enough for me to make it happen, and this small tour may be his one and only chance to do something outside of mainstream like this time, and I hold my breath that this goes ok in Russia and Co., but for future, I am sure going to be ready and hoping for a more inclusive approach again.
YMMV.
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