New York Critics Break Boy George's Taboo

Boy George entered into a war of words with US theatre critic Michael Rider this week after the New York Post tastemaker branded George's musical Taboo a 'turkey'.

"I am aware of the snobbery and contempt the theatre world has for so-called outsiders," said the Culture Club singer in a letter to the tabloid.

"In London, there was a stink of, 'Who do these upstarts think they are-' No surprise to get the same feeling on Broadway."

The New York Times also tore into Taboo's opening night performance, branding it 'a disastrously overcrowded tableau of a show'.

"When he's singing (though not, alas, when he's talking), he generates that mixed magnetic charge of attraction and repulsion that is what the show is presumably meant to be about," Ben Brantley sneered.

"Otherwise, 'Cats' had more teeth."
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