ScottyDoesn'tKnow2 said: "You know...the term "progressive racist" isn't really a term used much except from one person and to see another poster use it is highly suspicious. Sock puppeting and so classic. Ignore and belittlethe majority of opinionsby POCsand use one that happens to agree with you and treat it as if their word is gospel even if you have to create one yourself."
Hold on there, friend - are you accusing me or anyone else of having cre
AlfredDrakeII said: "I'm a Black performer. The agent is correct. I disagree with Dave's assertion that quotas should be enforced by any means. But his broader point is one worth debating: how does one quantify "diversity", and what does it mean precisely, other than "fewer white people"? How do we know we've reached our "diversity" goals? IS there a chart or an equation??
At any rate I do have many hard-working and skilled white f
"Can we mass exodus from this site? I'm so sick of racist diatribes being left up for everyone to see while BroadwayWorld is deleting responses to it.
Disgusting.
Can we make a new message board? There are multiple sites to host message boards on. This site's moderators have long taken the bite out of this board."
Amusingly, people keep saying this and yet don't leave. This is not your message board - it is owned by th
ScottyDoesn't Know: I think what the moderator is saying is perfectly clear. You don't want to hear it is the problem. People are presenting points of view - all well and good. Others are absolutely attacking posters with whom they disagree in a personal way - those are the posts that have been removed.
Just to keep it real, here is a) what actually happened and where it was actually first posted, and b) what she actually meant, at least according to her. But it IS fun to take words out of context without including whatever else may have preceded or followed these particular statements.
Hamilton responded to the criticisms claiming she was “devastated” and that her comments had been taken out of context.
“I was actually trying to express how all actors s
I will never understand rehearsal videos and this kind of thing. Go do the show, do your work, try it out, preview it, but stop with this "peek" stuff - mostly it just backfires, unless they're trying to give everyone such low expectations that when they finally attend they all say "wow" thank goodness it's better than that crappy rehearsal video or music video.
henrikegerman said: "I've always had great affection for this play, which was so very popular at one time (1128 performances on Broadway in the original 1969-debuted run, the Goldie Hawn-Keir Dullea movie that won Eileen Heckart an Oscar) but now seems all but forgotten
Anyone else think a revival might work?
My dream cast:
Frances McDormand. She'd nail Mrs. Baker and it would be a much welcome change of pace from her recent high profile earth
Are people here really not understanding what the judge is asking for? Seriously? He is basically taking Mr. Rudin's suggestion of a staged reading and asking him to film it, i.e. put a camera up and shoot the reading - not make an actual film of it, for heaven's sake. I'm sure the reasoning is that the Lee estate might not like to go and sit at a staged reading where they cannot possibly take notes. Having a one-camera taped version allows them to to that.
ShowsInTheCity said: "Sierra Boggess made the absolute correct decision in sacrificing this role. Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to step aside while the 21st Century Theater-Makers do theirthing. Times have changed and so has art."
As others have said, the "blog" is a joke and the writer of it is a jerk. He is on some kind of weird power trip, with his "exposes" of the casting director or whoever he was, and then kind of stalking Javiar Munoz. I won't even give this nerd the click anymore.
Elfuhbuh said: "BroadwayRox3588 said: ""I'm white, and I'msoooooooooppressed. Oh, how ever shall I live in this anti-white world? WHY WON'T ANYONE THINK OF THE WHITES?""
Poor, poor white people being told we shouldn't have every single role in the universe and that we should give marginalized groups the chance to shine and tell stories about experiences that we have never gone through.
Dave28282 has it all right. And others, since Ms. Bogess did what she had to do due to boards like this, have all disappeared, presumably moving on to the next outrage. The few of us who have been making the same points repeatedly have been called names, made fun of, been castigated, but in the end the points about true equality are true and the knee-jerk reactions and the endless how dare a white girl play Maria (she wasn't playing Maria - a Proms concert is just that and thi
Tapping23 said: "wssinsider said: "Tapping23 said: "wssinsider said: "philly03 said: "Where was the outrage at Lea Salonga playing Mother in Ragtime, whichwas specifically written as a "White Anglo-Saxon Protestant"?
I am in the boat of the best singer/actor should get the job, regardless of race/etc."
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Let me take a wild guess... you are white. DING DING #privilege&quo
ksilver117 said: "RippedMan said: "Surprised Phantom isn't still going or Jersey Boys. They seem like such Vegas shows. Maybe the Jimmy Buffet show will make it to Vegas?"
From what I've heard, Jersey Boys just ran out of steam out there, but that was surprising. As for Phantom, Mackintosh pulled the rights so he could have the only non-Broadway production in the US be his new tour.
Elfuhbuh said: "John Adams said: "Elfuhbuh said: "Again, what difference does it make whether it's a concert or a full production? People keep screaming this "BUT IT'S JUST A CONCERT, GUYS!!!" excuse with no explanation, as if it's supposed to somehow solve the problem."
I'm starting to wonder if concert versions of musicals like Chicago and Sweeney Todd have eclipsed the defin
gypsy101 said: "Dave, we get it; you’re racist. you’ve been spouting off your weird theories about theater and race for years now. you still just come off as racist.
also the afforementioned studio cast recording of WSS with all kinds of different races and singers far too old for the roles was some kind of long-wanted operatic recording of the score, and it was actually 34 years ago, not 20. we’ve come along way in regards to casting since then.&quo
HeyMrMusic said: "Maybe it’s just me, but I would not want to see or hear a concert version of Porgy & Bess with white people just because they can sing the songs well."
And yet: Mel Torme and Francis Faye did just that.
Synecdoche2 said: ""Funny, on the studio album of Bernstein conducting WSS, no one seemed to take issue that Jose Carreras played Tony, that Kiri Te Kanawa played Maria, that Tatiana Troyos played Anita. Funny, no one seems to have an issue with Audra McDonald playing Lizzie or Carrie or Joshua Henry playing Billy B - each of thoseroles are Caucasian characters and of course we could go on and on. A concert is a concert - she's SINGING the songs, not playing the role. Al
NOWaWarning said: "This is a concert presentation... would people complain if they cast an East Asian as Tony, a black actor as Riff or a south Asian as Anita?
Yes, probably. The characters in West Side Story are specific races. It's important to the story. Casting someone Latinx in a Latinx role is not asking too much.If you can't cast it appropriately (which they easily could), then do a different show. Concert presentation or not.
