The Notebook Ethics

[MollyJeanneMusic]

Posted: 6/19/19 at 11:21am

I noticed people talking about this in another thread, so I wanted to start a conversation about it. With the revelations, past and present, about Nicholas Sparks, is the Notebook adaptation in theatre's best interests?

(please give textual evidence and organize your thoughts in the standard conventions of written English)

(just kidding I took my English final the other day and thought it was funny)

[JSquared2]

Posted: 6/19/19 at 12:22pm

Give it a rest, and please stop trolling.

 

[haterobics]

Posted: 6/19/19 at 12:36pm

How can I get tickets to the reading?

[Owen22]

Posted: 6/19/19 at 12:37pm

No, I think it needs to be discussed here as well. On as many pages that Broadwayworld.com allows until it is picked up by the New York Times and the producers are shamed into disbanding. 

Especially since they just got together and sent out this response:

" We are encouraged that Mr. Sparks has made a strong statement of support of the LGBTQ+ community today. The Notebook musical team has been given complete freedom to create a very new piece of art from the source material of the book and our mission for the past 3 years has been and continues to be to create a story of love and humanity that reflects our core values of diversity and inclusion."

This was posted by: Kevin McCollum and Kurt Deutsch, composer Ingrid Michaelson, book writer Bekah Brunstetter, and director Michael Grief.  Some who are gay, some who are strong gay allies!!

Aren't we all so woke until it gets in the way of us making money, uh, excuse me "art".  Disgusting.

[Owen22]

Posted: 6/19/19 at 12:40pm

Incidentally, he only apologized about the homophobic (and they were VERY homophobic) emails and not about the racist ones.

[Pose2]

Posted: 6/19/19 at 2:43pm

Yeah, he's the worst.  I guess people just really need to see a musical version of one of the most pedestrian movies of all time.