| I wouldn't recommend auditioning with "Waitin' for the Robert E. Lee" these days either |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 05:19 pm EDT 08/17/17 |
| In reply to: even with the right star it probably can't be done! - Chromolume 05:08 pm EDT 08/17/17 |
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though folks like Judy Garland and Al Jolson recorded or filmed musical numbers with it. Things are really shaking up. I feel very troubled and am somewhat unsure what is the right thing to do, what with some of these statues being taken down in a way, since aren't they considered art, someone's handicraft? It's not like a current president or dictator's statue is being taken down like Saddam Hussein, but these Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, etc. have been up for years as a marker of history. Histories are written down and their artifacts are studied and put in museums to remind people of what came before them, good and bad. I just think things are happening so fast -- who decides what is worthy of being taken away? Al Sharpton actually played into Trump's hands by saying (I hope he wasn't serious) that they shouldn't maintain the Jefferson Monument because he owned slaves. Yes, but he also wrote the Declaration of Independence (musicalized in "1776" to help keep on theater track). These things are all troubling.
"Mame" will keep. |
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