Side Show in German.... Oh, my!

#1Side Show in German.... Oh, my!
Posted: 1/11/15 at 6:14pm

Check out Jake.... um.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQcj0v83acA

I am not remembering the "thugs" at the end of the number form the original Bway cast.

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haterobics
#2Side Show in German.... Oh, my!
Posted: 1/11/15 at 6:25pm

They also posted I Will Never Leave You:

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SNAFU
#2Side Show in German.... Oh, my!
Posted: 1/11/15 at 9:17pm

Why ,oh why, are the mics on the sides they are on? Wouldn't it serve the show better in it's entirety for them to be on the other side?


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jjohnson5
#3Side Show in German.... Oh, my!
Posted: 1/11/15 at 9:36pm

...is Jake really in blackface?

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#4Side Show in German.... Oh, my!
Posted: 1/11/15 at 10:22pm

Yeaaaah


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#5Side Show in German.... Oh, my!
Posted: 1/11/15 at 10:38pm

I've heard it said that in Europe blackface doesn't carry the same negative connotations as here in the States because there isn't such a history of rabid racism/slavery/minstrel shows and such.

Not that it's right, but just for some perspective before any attacks.


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#6Side Show in German.... Oh, my!
Posted: 1/12/15 at 1:03am

God awful both clips...ugh!


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#7Side Show in German.... Oh, my!
Posted: 1/12/15 at 9:07am

The reason blackface carries such a negative connotation in America is because of minstrel shows, which is almost exclusively an American form of entertainment. So no, blackface in Europe is not considered as "wrong" as it is in the US.

As Mr. Nowak says, it doesn't make it right, but that's why it still happens from time to time there. I remember someone posted a clip from a few years back of a production of Ragtime where someone was in blackface.

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#8Side Show in German.... Oh, my!
Posted: 1/12/15 at 10:15am

Daisy looks like Baby Jane Hudson*, Jake like Greg Brady playing Porgy. Not that either of those things are wrong; just sayin'.

*Or rather, the Baby Jane Hudson Doll




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#9Side Show in German.... Oh, my!
Posted: 1/12/15 at 10:35am

HA! Auggie, I just spit out my coffee!!!

Anyone remember the amazing white girl playing Effie in Dreamgirls in some high school production? Can't find the Youtube clip

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#10Side Show in German.... Oh, my!
Posted: 1/12/15 at 11:27am

I liked him better than David St. Louis.


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#11Side Show in German.... Oh, my!
Posted: 1/13/15 at 5:01pm

WOW. So I was going to say something about it being the 20s and maybe they were going with the whole "blackface" look as it was acceptable at the time but alas no it was not what I thought of as blackface. #yikes


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#12Side Show in German.... Oh, my!
Posted: 1/14/15 at 3:54pm

Wonder where this played and how long it ran?