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| Posted by: kidmanboy 08:06 am EDT 04/01/18 | |
| In reply to: GET OVER IT! - TheHarveyBoy 07:15 am EDT 04/01/18 | |
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| This creative team was clearly procured to make a bankable product. This wasn’t a story that this all-male creative team just NEEDED to tell. And with nary a theatrical credit amongst the four writers, nearly any female writer or composer would have been just as qualified. And with the creative team openly discussing their attempts to make this show a bit more feminist, the lack of a female brain in the mix is extremely glaring. |
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| re: Oh, please | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 08:15 am EDT 04/01/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Oh, please - kidmanboy 08:06 am EDT 04/01/18 | |
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| So a woman should've been hired for being a woman? Which woman? | |
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| re: Oh, please | |
| Posted by: BruceinIthaca 11:37 am EDT 04/01/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Oh, please - KingSpeed 08:15 am EDT 04/01/18 | |
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| Not for being a woman, but maybe hire a talented creative woman to work on a project that, in its original form, prettifies and sentimentalizes the sexual exploitation of women. I bet Julia Roberts' teeth are better than those of any other street pros (excuse me, sex workers). And we see she is responsible about her health because she flosses! | |
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| re: Oh, please | |
| Posted by: AlexandraBee 09:25 am EDT 04/01/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Oh, please - KingSpeed 08:15 am EDT 04/01/18 | |
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| Across the board the entire creative team is male - not just writers & composers, but director, choreographer, set designer, costume designer, lighting designer, sound designer - all male. There are numerous women who could have been brought on board; but it's the same go-to names. Seems so often to be a boys club. | |
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| re: Oh, please | |
| Posted by: kidmanboy 08:44 am EDT 04/01/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Oh, please - KingSpeed 08:15 am EDT 04/01/18 | |
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| Do you really need us to name all of the women playwrights and songwriters that have numerous more theater credits than these four writers? They should have been chosen because they are qualified, not because they are women. And probability on an equal playing field would put the creative team at half women. |
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| re: Oh, please | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 01:10 am EDT 04/02/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Oh, please - kidmanboy 08:44 am EDT 04/01/18 | |
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| You didn't answer the question. Saying I think Tessori would've been a nice choice for score is one thing. Saying More Women!! is another. Discussions shouldn't be so vague. Be more specific. Is Bryan Adams a bad choice for a score that evokes the 80s? If not, who is better? THAT is the discussion we should be having. |
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| re: Oh, please | |
| Posted by: sf 09:11 am EDT 04/02/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Oh, please - KingSpeed 01:10 am EDT 04/02/18 | |
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| " Is Bryan Adams a bad choice for a score that evokes the 80s? If not, who is better?" Cyndi Lauper? That's beside the point, though. For each of the creative roles on this production, there's a list of women who are just as qualified as the men who were hired. In 2018, the all-male creative team - like the all-male panel - no longer flies. We should, by now, have evolved to a point where the days of the industry being a boys' club are over. SOME of us have; apparently you haven't. |
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| Posted by: Ann 09:26 am EDT 04/02/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Oh, please - sf 09:11 am EDT 04/02/18 | |
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| Great post. I'm hoping it's because a lot of women turned it down, but that's hard to believe. Amazing it's hard for some to see that a woman's take on this story about a woman might have been a good thing. | |
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| re: Oh, please | |
| Posted by: whereismikeyfl 08:56 am EDT 04/01/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Oh, please - kidmanboy 08:44 am EDT 04/01/18 | |
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| The stupidity is claiming to be feminist without any women on-board. | |
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