| re: Tony Winner Ivo van Hove to Direct 'West Side Story' on Broadway | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 02:43 pm EDT 07/12/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Tony Winner Ivo van Hove to Direct 'West Side Story' on Broadway - lowwriter 01:47 pm EDT 07/12/18 | |
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| On one hand I agree with your point - I said the same thing when Michael Arden was announced to direct OOTI. But on the other hand I just wanna say I'm tired of this argument when it comes to art. I mean were Bernstein, Sondheim, Laurents and Robbins the "right white men" to write the very show we're talking about? And let's not forget that the show isn't *about* Latino culture... it's about a situation, a conflict, a love story... and a time. And it's about both a group of latino people AND a group of white people. Yes, it would be more than about time for a latinx person to direct a major revival of this show, since white people have done it every time. But Ivo is not your ordinary run of the mill white director... it's not like Rob Ashford got the job, or Michael Grandage, or even Joe Mantello. I am VERY excited to see what Ivo and his choreographer do with this. Why don't we start with getting the people who must actually represent the Puerto Rican people, the CAST playing them, to be ALL hispanic people... and I know they did this for the last revival and made a big deal about but, but... I hate to say this, I think as lovely as Josefina Scaglione's voice was, hiring a pale light skinned Argentinian actress to play Maria in the revival seems like a bit of a racial cop-out. Puerto Ricans are generally not that light skinned, and to make a whole show of casting actual hispanic people for that revival and then finding the lightest one they could seemed besides the point since all the pictures and videos promoting the show would still show the world another white-looking Maria. I don't know who is whiter looking between them, Josephina or Matt Cavenaugh. I know in reality that isn't relevant racially since she is not "white", but for the image of the show, and for anyone who doesn't know she is from Argentina, she appears white, like most other Marias in the history of the show. |
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