Anybody hear about this story? A high school in Ithaca, NY cast a white student as Esmerelda in Hunchback of Notre Dame. Some actors quit in protest and now the production is shut down. To be fair, they've replaced it with a new TBD "collaborative project." Not sure if that means another musical or some sort of installation or performance.
Curious what others think. Part of me applauds the student protestors (apparently the faculty director refused to meet with the concerned students), the other part of me thinks it was perhaps taken a bit too far. But Fox News just picked up the story so now the MAGA crowd is attacking the high school. It's all Obama's fault, somehow.
Anyway, not to stir things up but it's an interesting debate. And it's one that Broadway was having just last season with The Great Comet. |
