| 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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