| re: Protest during St. Louis "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 10:22 pm EDT 06/20/18 |
| In reply to: re: Protest during St. Louis "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" - wisebear 06:01 pm EDT 06/20/18 |
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Others will have their own answers, but .I'd say that you're fine performing those songs in a revue, as long as you aren't representing yourself as a person of color. If you darkened your skin or changed your voice to sound more black, then I would say you were being inappropriate.
The issue here is that they were performing the material as it is seen in the original show, with a white woman playing Asian. I'd be curious to see if there would have been the same reaction if all three leads in this scene had been Asian (or even non-white), with the dancing ensemble fully diverse. |
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