get by heart READY FOR A RUSH of the new--OK the `80s--as gay icons forward two continents spice up that time-honored homo art form.

get by heart READY FOR A RUSH of the new--OK the `80s--as gay icons forward two continents spice up that time-honored homo art form, the musical. male child George's autobiographical Taboo is rocking London with its re-creation of Taboo, the London society that spawned such pop phenomena as drag artist Leigh Bowery, Marilyn, and, of course, M George herself.

And advance figure: Taboo, written by goodnes knows by what mode many queers, centers on a hetero be in love with story. Meanwhile, in Australia, a gay be enamoured of story plays out to the music of straight detonation diva Kylie Minogue. She prepares the Mamma Mia! treatment with I Should Be in this way Lucky, which serves up 25 Minogue hits, including the brand-new "Can't obtain You Out of My Head."

After seeing Taboo, George was candid about watching actor Euan Morton play him onstage: "The first time I saw him in makeup, that was spooky"

Spookier still, Robert De Niro's company is planning a musical onward Freddie Mercury. What's next? A Mid-Jimmy-Somerville-night's Dream?

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