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| Want diverse casts? Go to Ashland, Oregon | |
| Posted by: BillEadie 01:29 am EDT 10/26/17 | |
| In reply to: Reality check: the out-of-work Broadway casts of SHUFFLE ALONG, THE COLOR PURPLE, MOTOWN, PORGY & BESS, ALLEGIANCE... - GrumpyMorningBoy 12:52 pm EDT 10/25/17 | |
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| Under Bill Rauch’s leadership, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival has probably hit a high water mark for diverse casting, with a 100-person, mostly Equity, company playing 11 shows in repertory across a ten-month season. And, the company gives its actors unique work to perform, including this past (almost) season’s musical made from August Wilson’s poetry and a wildly popular take on Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure” performed against a backdrop of a school designed to “beat the Indian” out of its Native students. (Very funny and surprisingly upbeat.) The only thing that OSF is still missing is a diverse audience (though, you have to give its audience credit for supporting a company located halfway between San Francisco and Portland). Next season, OSF stages “Oklahoma,” and they’ve got R&H’s permission for Curly and Laurie to be a lesbian couple and Will Parker and Ado Andy to be a gay male couple. Bill, in San Diego |
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| re: Want diverse casts? Go to Ashland, Oregon | |
| Last Edit: BroadwayTonyJ 02:37 pm EDT 10/26/17 | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 02:36 pm EDT 10/26/17 | |
| In reply to: Want diverse casts? Go to Ashland, Oregon - BillEadie 01:29 am EDT 10/26/17 | |
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| Sounds like the Lynn Riggs' gay subtext coming to fruition. Will OSF then make Ali Hakim bisexual or will Gertie just be his beard? Does Will Parker really go to a Kansas City "burleeque" or was it actually a gogo boy club? It's hard to imagine them pulling off their version unless they are going for some kind of farce or satire. In Chicago, there's a small theatre group called Hell in a Handbag which specializes in drag spoofing of well known old movies and plays that lend themselves to it. Isn't there a line in Zanna, Don't about one of the guys being an Okla homo or is that from a different show? |
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| Here is what the director has to say about it... | |
| Last Edit: garyd 07:49 pm EDT 10/26/17 | |
| Posted by: garyd 07:48 pm EDT 10/26/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Want diverse casts? Go to Ashland, Oregon - BroadwayTonyJ 02:36 pm EDT 10/26/17 | |
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| interesting. Scroll a little way down to "interviews". |
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| Link | https://www.osfashland.org/on-stage/2018-season-playbill.aspx#lightbox |
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| re: Here is what the director has to say about it... | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 10:47 pm EDT 10/26/17 | |
| In reply to: Here is what the director has to say about it... - garyd 07:48 pm EDT 10/26/17 | |
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| First of all, I am gay. I love musical theatre. This director is gay and has a fantasy about Oklahoma! and wants to stage his fantasy. He's friends with Chapin so Chapin says OK. What the hell, it's Oregon. Who cares? Everything else he says is bullshit. I have no doubt there were same sex couples back in 1906 Oklahoma. But they lived closeted lives. To do otherwise, would have meant shame, non-acceptance, perhaps violence, even death. If this guy wants to direct a musical about two same-sex couples in 1906 Oklahoma, he should write his own play. | |
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