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Back in 2006 my daughter (a little blond white girl) played one of the King’s children in the community theater, which naturally considering the area the talent was drawn from, featured a lot of white people. I loved it. Thought nothing of it. Several years later when I decided to watch the videos of shows she was in to see how much she’d grown up, it didn’t take long after watching local people made up with slanted eyebrows, black dye jobs or wigs, and speaking broken Engli

adamgreer said: "If he hadn’t been on since mid-February, were they putting an understudy on or had the actor playing the role (R. Lowe I believe) simply not missed a show in 4 months?"

You’ve made me think that maybe his lack of being on stage for four months fed into the psychology behind the producers’ actions and its timing.  If he had been periodically going on, that might have been one thing, but they now perceived (spitefully and il

Impossible2 said: "ladypresent said: "why would they care about 35k (or so)?
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How do you think they became millionaires?"

You would also think that millionaires would be capable of conducting a cost/benefit analysis and understand the  concept of penny wise and pound foolish.  But something Mosaic Owl said in any another thread (although I’m not sure how his/her gpa figures into it) and now recall

I was trying to avoid making the connection between the incident and its potential outcome that got the other thread shut down. I was wondering what could possibly be worth it on the production side to even risk such turmoil over a simple decision and a relatively paltry amount?

 

Added to reflect adamgreer’s quick response:  Hah...well, there’s a picture of my father in law in some dictionaries next to the definition of cheap... I guess maybe

Without rendering a judgment on what prompted this man to take his life....if what I’ve read elsewhere is true and he could have been bought out of his contract for $30,000...big bucks to me but it seems like small potatoes in the world we’re talking about. Why even risk the bad publicity, the possibility of a lawsuit, or make the effort to make someone miserable enough to quit...why not write the check and show him the door? Aren’t contract payoffs a cost of doing business

Does there even have to be subtext at all - considering that there have been "citizens of Oz" and other lead roles who have been people of color in the past?  It's as simple as the prevailing culture shunning Elphaba, not because she is of color, but of the wrong color, "wrong" being arbitrarily decided at some point in the past when the culture divided into "us" and "them."  It would be like that old Star Trek episode -

My children are 23 and 16 and I would be totally destroyed if I lost either of them and I doubt my marriage would survive it. Yet if there is a ideal situation to drag oneself out of such hell for an actor, this seems like it... a familiar role where you don’t have to learn something new, familiar people, but in a totally new location where every place won’t have a haunting memory....but still, to be constantly surrounded by laughing, smiling small children as one would be in this

I came in with very modest expectations and was still disappointed because it was just a chore to sit through.  Briefly, since so much has already been written on it, my issues were:

The chants to bring in the forest people took me out of the world of Frozen right away and made me think "Lion King."

The story's pace seems to be - blah, blah, blah...SONG FROM MOVIE...blah blah blah...SONG FROM MOVIE, without the story naturally leading into th

I have stagedoored occasionally and saw Wicked this time around in New York and really wanted to say hi to Jackie, compliment her and get her autograph. I thought she was great that night and there’s a YouTube video of her killing No Good Deed that I absolutely love. But when the show got out, it was quarter till 11, cold, and I thought “aw man, just let the poor woman go home”and left. As I get older I’m amazed anyone stagedoors anymore, particularly someone like Idin

dmwnc1959 said: "BenjaminNicholas2 said: "Last time I saw it, it was a joke of a tour. Very, very non-eq feeling."

GoblinKing2 said: “I told her to go in with low expectations because it was non equity.

bwaylvsong said:“That's silly- in this day and age, the only difference between young Equity and non-Equity performers is that the non-Eqs haven't lucked into getting union membership yet. The only difference wo

My daughter saw the production in Cleveland last week. She’s 23 and was in several school musicals and in community theater, and would probably have been in the local production of Rent a few years ago had she not opted to get paid as a choreographer on another project. I told her to go in with low expectations because it was non equity. That all said...she thoroughly enjoyed it. She raved about mark and roger and thought Joanne was excellent as well. She had a number of issues with Mim

Finally being back in New York after a couple of years, I had to see Jackie to continue my string of seeing the longest running Elphabas (my last two trips I've seen Ms. Verkaik and Tucker).  She was terrific and the crowd loved her.  Admittedly my experience is limited compared to others, but based on what I saw, she deserves her status as Broadway's longest running Elphaba.  If she's still with the show when I come back in April, I plan to see her again, alth

Hollywood's tolerance of deviant and criminal behavior seems even more inexplicable in the case of Spacey than Weinstein.  I live in the Midwest with no connections to the entertainment industry outside of an interest in pop culture, but had heard the Stacey rumors, as opposed to Weinstein, of which I knew nothing (although wasn't surprised).  With Weinstein, the conspiracy of silence, while not excusable, was almost understandable considering how much power the ma