Boy George is engaged on a “new model” of Taboo.
Boy George at Blitz: the membership that formed the 80s exhibition launch at The Design Museum
The musical tells a love story set in opposition to the inventive backdrop of the New Romantic interval in Eighties England, and it weaves in autobiographical components from the lives of the Tradition Membership frontman and the late efficiency artist-and-fashion designer Leigh Bowery – who died of AIDS in December 1994 aged 33.
Boy George, 64, completely advised BANG Showbiz at Blitz: the membership that formed the 80s exhibition launch at The Design Museum, London, on Wednesday (17.09.25): “I am really engaged on a brand new model of Taboo proper now, that’s the subsequent massive factor I am doing in October.
“I am doing a brand new workshop with new writers, and we’ll redo it.”
Taboo – of which its title got here from a weekly occasion of the identical identify that Bowery created on the Most nightclub in London’s Leicester Sq. from 1985 to 1986 – acquired a three-week workshop earlier than it opened at The Venue within the West Finish in January 2002 and led to April 2003.
The present – which was nominated for 4 Olivier Awards – went on Broadway on the Plymouth Theatre in November 2003 earlier than it was revived once more on the Brixton Membership Home in London, from September 2012 till March 2013.
Boy George – who performed Bowery within the Broadway model of Taboo in 2003 – turned some of the well-known faces on the short-lived Covent Backyard, London, nightspot The Blitz Membership.
It was an necessary landmark in youth tradition, and the place the New Romantic Scene started.
Boy George – actual identify George O’Dowd – labored because the cloakroom assistant within the membership, which was co-founded by Rusty Egan, 67, and the late Steve Unusual.
Nevertheless, Boy George discovered the job “irritating”.
He defined to BANG Showbiz: “The factor about being within the cloakroom was like – clearly, I used to be put there to maintain me in my place, and it was annoying as a result of it was a job, however then you definately could not go away it fairly often, and it was irritating.
“I favored the truth that everybody needed to come and see me after they arrived, however then there was the large hole the place I used to be doing nothing.
“So, I used to be all the time leaving my put up and getting in bother.”
Blitz: the membership that formed the 80s opens at The Design Museum on September 20, 2025, and runs till March 29, 2026.
