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With the original production of A Chorus LIne was there every a movement to get a black actress cast?
Posted by: bobby2 04:49 pm EDT 08/14/17

Seems so odd that for all those years and all those productions there was never an African American woman in any. All those talents wasted. (I suppose Bennet made up for it with Dreamgirls) Was the thinking that it took away from the joke of Richie announcing that he was black?
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Thread:	re: With the original production of A Chorus LIne was there every a movement to get a black actress cast? - Greg_M 05:21 pm EDT 08/16/17 re: With the original production of A Chorus LIne was there every a movement to get a black actress cast? - Alcindoro 02:56 am EDT 08/15/17 (2) re: With the original production of A Chorus LIne was there every a movement to get a black actress cast? - bobby2 03:18 am EDT 08/15/17 (1) re: With the original production of A Chorus LIne was there every a movement to get a black actress cast? - MikeR 12:03 pm EDT 08/15/17 re: With the original production of A Chorus LIne was there every a movement to get a black actress cast? - PlayWiz 08:47 pm EDT 08/14/17 (3) re: With the original production of A Chorus LIne was there every a movement to get a black actress cast? - Delvino 11:49 pm EDT 08/14/17 (2) re: With the original production of A Chorus LIne was there every a movement to get a black actress cast? - PlayWiz 12:26 am EDT 08/15/17 re: With the original production of A Chorus LIne was there every a movement to get a black actress cast? - bobby2 12:02 am EDT 08/15/17

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