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| re: Wow, actual theatre NEWS: Dustin Hoffman in Our Town on Broadway | |
| Posted by: huskyital (huskyital@yahoo.com) 07:54 am EDT 07/01/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Wow, actual theatre NEWS: Dustin Hoffman in Our Town on Broadway - kess0078 08:21 pm EDT 06/30/20 | |
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| What happened to artistic control? I am so tired of complaints about the lack of diversity in the theater. The lack of diversity is in the audience. Often there are more black actors on stage than in the audience and that is the shame that the Broadway League should be concerned with. | |
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| re: Wow, actual theatre NEWS: Dustin Hoffman in Our Town on Broadway | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 02:43 pm EDT 07/01/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Wow, actual theatre NEWS: Dustin Hoffman in Our Town on Broadway - huskyital 07:54 am EDT 07/01/20 | |
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| Audiences tend to be predominately white when the work on stage tends to be predominately white, the production has not made efforts to engage with non-white communities, and ticket prices are too damn high. The "artistic control" you prize goes hand in hand with lack of diversity on stage and in the audience. That said, Rudin's brand is White People Theater (Highbrow and/or Populist), so I wouldn't look to him to bring in diverse production teams or even cast Black, Latinx, and other BIPOC artists in prominent roles in his musicals. So I wouldn't look to him to provide a path forward, and I can imagine a lot of people right now (predominately white) could use a nice piece of Nostalgia Pie, which "Our Town" delivers (though I think it's a much darker and cynical play than tends to be acknowledged). |
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| re: Wow, actual theatre NEWS: Dustin Hoffman in Our Town on Broadway | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 06:31 pm EDT 07/03/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Wow, actual theatre NEWS: Dustin Hoffman in Our Town on Broadway - Singapore/Fling 02:43 pm EDT 07/01/20 | |
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| I think it's pretty widely recognized nowadays that Our Town is not a nostalgic valentine but is a rather dark and despairing play. I wouldn't call it cynical myself, but certainly dark and upsetting. Even when I first read it, at 10 or 12 or so, I felt that way about it, and I never understood why people described it as sentimental or affirmative, but I've seen that less and less over the last 30-35 years. | |
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| re: Wow, actual theatre NEWS: Dustin Hoffman in Our Town on Broadway | |
| Posted by: FinalPerformance 09:16 am EDT 07/01/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Wow, actual theatre NEWS: Dustin Hoffman in Our Town on Broadway - huskyital 07:54 am EDT 07/01/20 | |
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| The silent majority tend to agree with you. | |
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| re: Wow, actual theatre NEWS: Dustin Hoffman in Our Town on Broadway | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 02:44 pm EDT 07/01/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Wow, actual theatre NEWS: Dustin Hoffman in Our Town on Broadway - FinalPerformance 09:16 am EDT 07/01/20 | |
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| If the majority is silent, how do you know what they're thinking, or even that they're the majority? | |
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| re: Wow, actual theatre NEWS: Dustin Hoffman in Our Town on Broadway | |
| Posted by: huskyital (huskyital@yahoo.com) 08:06 am EDT 07/01/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Wow, actual theatre NEWS: Dustin Hoffman in Our Town on Broadway - huskyital 07:54 am EDT 07/01/20 | |
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| P.S. There are more Hispanics in the United States than Blacks so why don't they get their fair share of roles? Maybe because they don't protest all the time. Audra McDonald who is great received 6 Tony awards so I think the lady doth protest too much. Casting should be open to everyone and I do believe that the theatre recently has been more open than any other part of society. So let's work on equality on the street and in American society and let the creative forces work it out themselves. | |
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