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| Posted by: whereismikeyfl 07:08 pm EDT 06/22/20 | |
| In reply to: re: It's unedited. - Singapore/Fling 03:53 pm EDT 06/22/20 | |
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| No one claims the piece is not accurate. Rather, the complaint is that Grissom’s stance of outrage allows people like your collogues to pretend they were not aware of any of this. He presents his nothing burger as a revelation, which situates him as the white crusader for justice. But anyone working in New York theater has known what Grissom describes. If they did not hear it as gossip, they read about it in other media outlets. And now they can be outraged with Grissom (even though for years they just pretended not to notice). Their self-disgust is histrionic. None of this bothered them a year ago. Suddenly they discovered that there is racism and injustice in the professional theater? Grissom decorates his points to make them seem new (and conceal the lack of new information). But here I have listed all his major points. You can use this as a check list with people to find out just what it was that the article revealed to them. --An actress was dropped for the move of a production and the playwright did nothing to help her keep the gig (in a production that will now probably not happen anyway). --Broadway caters to tourists rather than outreaching to its own region. --Artist lost income and now appear in mediocre streaming projects. --Jordon Roth is powerful, rich, ridiculous and oblivious to the economic hardship of others. --Off-Bway institutional theaters underpay artists while their top administrators make good money. --Bad seats cost too much money. --When New York was unpopular with tourists, no one got rich in theater, but the shows were better and more affordable. --Theaters want to get dollars from black patrons while making no attempt to understand those patrons. Black artists get exploited to make up the gap in understanding. --The Inheritance was a bad play for privileged people. --Slave Play got a lot of response. The script is analyzed. Broadway should do more plays like this. --George Floyd’s murder moved black artists to call out systemic racism in theater. --Griffin Matthews went public about his treatment by Second Stage. Diane Paulus apology was rote and unsatisfactory. --Theaters with all-white audiences hypocritically state that they are standing against racism. I should point out I am summarizing Grissom here. I do not agree with all his opinions, though I have heard similar thoughts from many other people. |
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