Threaded Order Chronological Order
| re: Casting of Hamilton | |
| Posted by: jbronsto 09:05 pm EDT 07/03/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Casting of Hamilton - claploudly 08:47 pm EDT 07/03/20 | |
|
|
|
| The show wasn’t written without ethnicity in mind. It was conceived to be performed by principle actors of color (except for King George). You aren’t allowed to produce Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf with a George and Martha who are black and going forward, all white productions of Hairspray aren’t allowed. Community theatres and colleges sign a contract when they license a show and it would be as illegal for them to make an unauthorized change in the way the show is to be cast as it would be for them to insert unapproved songs. | |
| reply to this message |
| “Virginia Woolf” and Black actors | |
| Posted by: kieran 09:23 pm EDT 07/03/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Casting of Hamilton - jbronsto 09:05 pm EDT 07/03/20 | |
|
|
|
| nm | |
| Link | “Virginia Woolf” |
| reply to this message | |
| re: “Virginia Woolf” and Black actors | |
| Posted by: whereismikeyfl 08:56 am EDT 07/04/20 | |
| In reply to: “Virginia Woolf” and Black actors - kieran 09:23 pm EDT 07/03/20 | |
|
|
|
| Interesting article. The requirement that rights would not be granted until after casting was done and headshots submitted to Albee's agent, scared off a few theaters in my largely hispanic community. I do not know any other writer who maintained such control over casting, which may be why Albee had the reputation for intractability regarding race. |
|
| reply to this message | reply to first message |
Time to render: 0.010406 seconds.