Elton has spoken with the New York Post about his reasons for getting involved with Next Fall.
He said his partner first saw it and told him, 'I've just seen a spectacular piece of work. It's wonderful.'
Elton continued:
''Our Billy Elliot director also loved it. And a friend with whom I'm involved in another project wrote it. So they asked us to get involved."
Asked if he and David Furnish contributed financially, Elton said, "Yes. And it wasn't all that cheap."
The subject matter spans a five-year relationship between two gay men. One young, a Southern Christian; the other, a nonbeliever. Although what they deal with could be in any relationship -- even between a man and woman -- one then has an accident. The parents didn't know he was gay. The partner is excluded from seeing him.
Elton said: "David saw it several times. I read it several times. There's some of us in it. Years back I had a relationship, and I had absolutely no idea in the world he was going to do this . . . he threw himself under a truck. There was so much grief . . .
"Look, we all need love. We all have the same fears and insecurities. We should all be allowed to be free."
"It's also the right timing for this," explained Furnish. "The religious divide between right and left has gotten wider, and so the rights of gay people never got back to where it was heading."
