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"I was always moving toward theater," says downtown-turned-uptown choreographer Mark Dendy, with the air of someone accustomed to negotiating side roads and switchbacks en route to his destinations. After all, it's not every day that a guy whose resume includes performing in platinum wig and high heels and impersonating both Martha Graham and Vaslav Nijinsky winds up in charge of a Broadway chorus line.

On the other hand, if ever there were a show begging for someone with precisely those credentials, it's Taboo. First presented in London in January 2002, Taboo traces the 1980s transformation of a misfit teenager named George O'Dowd into that international icon of cross-dressing fabulosity, "Boy George." O'Dowd came up with the idea for the show with the director, Christopher Renshaw, and stars not as himself but as the larger-than-life bohemian celebrity Leigh Bowery, who served as his friend and guide through the excesses of London's frenzied 1980s club scene. Using the songs Boy George wrote for his group, Culture Club, Taboo re-creates the heyday of Club...

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