I wouldn’t put it past a Hollywood stage version to inject
a same-sex marriage scene in there somewhere.
Please tell me I’m wrong.
You're wrong.
Checking the book, the marriage happened on Mardi Gras day, and the stage play appeared to be like a Mardi Gras celebration; but I'd forgotten the Mardi Gras touch. The book had said it all (to me) with two post-wedding lines: "The best way to worship God is to love your wife" and "A little after midnight, the Gillenormand house became a temple."
I was just joking-—but can same-sex marriage scenes injected into one or another “updated” classics be too far off?
Think of all the muggings Shakespeare’s plays have taken over the years as a way to make them more ‘relevant’.
There were some ambiguously shady people at the inn during Master Of The House.
-PJ