Theater2.NYTimes.com – By Charles Isherwood
If you had imagined that the follies of governors were a feature exclusive to the new century, a visit to the Hudson Guild Theater, where the rambling comic romp “Cornbury: The Queen’s Governor” is installed, will set you straight.
Well, perhaps straight isn’t the word. Three centuries before Eliot Spitzer was brought down by liaisons with a prostitute, a governor of the territory encompassing New York and New Jersey was scandalizing the populace by publicly appearing in drag, according to some accounts from that period.