Disney employs the most amount of minorities on Broadway
Disney employs the most amount of minorities on Broadway
#1Disney employs the most amount of minorities on Broadway
Posted: 5/20/16 at 9:58am
Just realized this.
In our millions, in our billions, we are most powerful when we stand together. TW4C unwaveringly joins the worldwide masses, for we know our liberation is inseparably bound.
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Updated On: 5/20/16 at 09:58 AM
#2Disney employs the most amount of minorities on Broadway
Posted: 5/20/16 at 10:01am
When were they involved with The King and I?
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#3Disney employs the most amount of minorities on Broadway
Posted: 5/20/16 at 10:12am
I mean I guess between the Lion King and Aladdin they do cast a lot.
#4Disney employs the most amount of minorities on Broadway
Posted: 5/20/16 at 10:15am
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Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
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Updated On: 5/20/16 at 10:15 AM
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#5Disney employs the most amount of minorities on Broadway
Posted: 5/20/16 at 10:16am
Do you have any data or studies? What is this thread?
#6Disney employs the most amount of minorities on Broadway
Posted: 5/20/16 at 10:17am
Disney has 2 shows on Broadway that are primarily people of color. Those casts combined would outnumber Hamilton or The King & I.
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#7Disney employs the most amount of minorities on Broadway
Posted: 5/20/16 at 10:23am
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/diversity-representation-hits-record-high-889685
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#8Disney employs the most amount of minorities on Broadway
Posted: 5/20/16 at 10:24am
backwoodsbarbie said: "Disney has 2 shows on Broadway that are primarily people of color. Those casts combined would outnumber Hamilton or The King & I.
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The King and I has (I believe) the largest cast on Broadway at the moment, and all but a few of the cast members are actors of color. Factoring in covers, it is the largest cast of nonwhite actors on Broadway at the moment.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
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Updated On: 5/20/16 at 10:24 AM
#9Disney employs the most amount of minorities on Broadway
Posted: 5/20/16 at 10:28am
And yet they can't bring themselves to cast any Arabic actors in Aladdin. Shame.
#10Disney employs the most amount of minorities on Broadway
Posted: 5/20/16 at 10:28am
I'm confused as to the point of the thread. Is it that Disney employs the most minorities of any producing organization? Or is that Disney employs most of the minorities on Broadway?
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#11Disney employs the most amount of minorities on Broadway
Posted: 5/20/16 at 10:30am
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The King and I has (I believe) the largest cast on Broadway at the moment, and all but a few of the cast members are actors of color. Factoring in covers, it is the largest cast of nonwhite actors on Broadway at the moment."
I agree. However, the OP said "Disney" so that covers 2 shows of mainly non-white actors.
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#12Disney employs the most amount of minorities on Broadway
Posted: 5/20/16 at 10:39am
Kad said: "I'm confused as to the point of the thread."
Well, considering who started it...
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
#13Disney employs the most amount of minorities on Broadway
Posted: 5/20/16 at 10:47am
I guess I'm trying to link this to Oak being cast as kristoff in the frozen lab.
In our millions, in our billions, we are most powerful when we stand together. TW4C unwaveringly joins the worldwide masses, for we know our liberation is inseparably bound.
Signed,
Theater Workers for a Ceasefire
https://theaterworkersforaceasefire.com/statement
#14Disney employs the most amount of minorities on Broadway
Posted: 5/20/16 at 10:50am
They/them.
"Get up the nerve to be all you deserve to be."
#15Disney employs the most amount of minorities on Broadway
Posted: 5/20/16 at 10:55am
Call_me_jorge said: "I guess I'm trying to link this to Oak being cast as kristoff in the frozen lab."
Because that counts as "on Broadway" right now.
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#16Disney employs the most amount of minorities on Broadway
Posted: 5/20/16 at 10:59am
yeah it's dumb me that there are no Arabic actors at all in Aladdin. I'm surprised there's no backlash for that at all but I guess there arent' enough Arabic actors in theatre.
Edit: This was sarcasm just to be clear
#17Disney employs the most amount of minorities on Broadway
Posted: 5/20/16 at 11:04am
Broadway Forever2 said: "I guess there arent' enough Arabic actors in theatre."
Please tell me this was sarcasm. Please.
They/them.
"Get up the nerve to be all you deserve to be."
#18Disney employs the most amount of minorities on Broadway
Posted: 5/20/16 at 11:06am
Broadway Forever2 said: "yeah it's dumb me that there are no Arabic actors at all in Aladdin. I'm surprised there's no backlash for that at all but I guess there arent' enough Arabic actors in theatre. "
OH lord
http://artsincolor.com/2013/10/casting-aladdin-middle-eastern-actors/
http://www.colorlines.com/articles/broadway-success-aladdin-underscores-need-arab-actors
http://jezebel.com/aladdins-broadway-debut-makes-it-a-target-for-controve-1545523784
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#19Disney employs the most amount of minorities on Broadway
Posted: 5/20/16 at 11:08am
LizzieCurry, or as I like to call them, LinkyCurry, is my favorite poster on this board.
They/them.
"Get up the nerve to be all you deserve to be."
#20Disney employs the most amount of minorities on Broadway
Posted: 5/20/16 at 11:08am
The King and I is responsible for half Asian actors employed on Broadway... Just fyi.
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#21Disney employs the most amount of minorities on Broadway
Posted: 5/20/16 at 11:08am
mm yeah it was sarcasm. I guess it didn't translate well. I read my post again and it sounded different in my head. I'm just saying that's the excuse they usually give when under scrutiny when it's not true.
#22Disney employs the most amount of minorities on Broadway
Posted: 5/20/16 at 11:09am
CindersGolightly said: "LizzieCurry, or as I like to call them, LinkyCurry, is my favorite poster on this board."
That's a new one. Thanks!
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#23Disney employs the most amount of minorities on Broadway
Posted: 5/20/16 at 11:23am
the Disney nonsense is an apples and oranges comparison. Every other show discussed is on its own bottom, so to elevate Disney based on its producing model is just silly. By that measure, it also has the most actors, the most stage managers, the most ushers, the most concessionaires and the most janitors.
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#24Disney employs the most amount of minorities on Broadway
Posted: 5/20/16 at 11:27am
Are there any statistics on the racial/ethnic breakdowns of students graduating from musical theatre/acting programs every year? Not that all of those graduates are necessarily great actors but it would be better evidence that there are actually actors of (insert ethnicity here) when this question inevitably comes up again.
Though I'm inclined to agree with you, Lizzie, those links don't actually say much. They argue that actors of Arabic descent should have been cast but not that there's a huge population of Arabic actors (who could do the requisite singing and dancing) that were passed over. In fact a lot of those articles talk in generalities about Asian, Middle Eastern, and Latino actors perhaps implicitly acknowledging the lack of specifically Thai (The King and I), Puerto Rican (WSS), etc. actors to fill out the entire cast. I'm not saying that diversity is not a problem in theatre but that you have to acknowledge the lack of diversity as something that dissuades a lot of prospective actors of color. The larger problem creates a symptom that reinforces the problem.
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#25Disney employs the most amount of minorities on Broadway
Posted: 5/20/16 at 11:33am
While it may have a been a joke to say "there aren't any Arabic actors," it would be completely accurate to say "there are virtually no Arab or Persian singer/actor/dancers auditioning for Broadway shows."
BTW, "Arabic" is a language, "Arab" is an ethnic identity.
