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#50HUNCHBACK high school production casting controversy
Posted: 2/9/18 at 7:34pm
Just another example of pulling the race card whenever you can. The real situation here is a frustrated girl not happy with her ensemble part, wanting the lead.
I wonder if she would apply the same principles if it was a POC playing Maria in the Sound of Music at her highschool. Would she then leave the production too? If not, double agenda and racist mindset.
It's even worse if you want a poc to play a role in a highschool production, even when that person's talents are inferior, you clearly think in race too much.
#51HUNCHBACK high school production casting controversy
Posted: 2/9/18 at 7:41pm
I'm glad Demi Moore and Heidi Mollenhauer were cast on talent.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#52HUNCHBACK high school production casting controversy
Posted: 2/9/18 at 10:27pm
This idea that people "earn" a role instead of deserve it is terrible. I teach in a mostly white school, and while we have some POC, VERY few audition (or work crew). I had a person last year practically ruin the entire club because she didn't get the lead as she so felt she deserved. (and of course, everyone assured her she was robbed). Made my life a living hell. A talented girl, but not right for the leading role. Still feeling the effects.
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#53HUNCHBACK high school production casting controversy
Posted: 2/10/18 at 12:57am
To me, this sounds like an entitled kid who was just upset that she didn't get the lead, so she immediately grasped the nearest excuse she could to justify her anger and get revenge. I'm astounded that her mother encouraged this, especially since it's just plain ignorant to act like all POC need to be lumped into one collective group like this girl did by claiming Esmeralda was "written for her," an African American, just because Esmeralda isn't white in the Disney film. You can't scream, "RACISM!!!" at every little thing that doesn't go your way in the real world.
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Updated On: 2/10/18 at 12:57 AM
#54HUNCHBACK high school production casting controversy
Posted: 2/10/18 at 5:41am
Her mother probably raised her that way, scream "racism" as often as you can to get your way. It seems like the whole character and personality of people like this is built around that, as they seem to have lost all sense of reason, insight and sense of relativation. From an early age that is the thing to hold on to. She wanted a part, and this way of reasoning is all she knows and is a perfect way to emotionally blackmail the director to eliminate the competition and get your way.
The reality is that if it her (and her mother's) point would have been slightly sincere or reasonable, then she would have insisted on leaving the production too if it was about a poc Maria in the sound of music. Would she have done that? No. And I will go even further, Esmeralda was not black, so if you are after historical accuracy in a highschool production you would be against that. This girl and her mother have a very racist, manipulative agenda and this needs to stop.
Seriously, the government needs to treat this as a serious problem and make rules for this, because this constant selective separation of people like this girl and her mother ruin society as it maintains an immense race gap.
VintageSnarker
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/30/15
#55HUNCHBACK high school production casting controversy
Posted: 2/11/18 at 4:29pm
dramamama611 said: "This is important It's NOT just the number of students in the school, but how many of them are part of the show....and particularly how many actually auditioned. I dont have a 30+% POC rate (much less) and I had exactly ONE person of color audition for the musical. ONE. He is not "lead" material. (But I'd also never choose to do a show that required POC leads, and I DO believe in color blind casting, however)"
This. If the person doing the casting is familiar with the general talent pool of the school (and they do, except for the incoming class... and the youngest students rarely get the leads anyway) why would you choose a show that doesn't play to the strengths of the students or that you would have difficulty casting? As other people have said, girls usually outnumber boys so it makes sense to pick shows with more female characters or at least lots of crowd scenes. Unless you've got great talent in mind, it makes less to choose Ragtime and more sense to just do Guys and Dolls and then do colorblind casting if a talented non-white student auditions.