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| Yes the casting notice said non-white, I believe but... | |
| Last Edit: KingSpeed 01:17 am EDT 07/04/20 | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 01:15 am EDT 07/04/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Casting of Hamilton - theaterbear 09:00 pm EDT 07/03/20 | |
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| ..I believe the casting notices now say all ethnicities. And that should be true for King George too, a role that I do not think has to be played by a white actor. As for high schools and colleges, it is a shame if a group can't work on this piece if the school is mostly white. If there aren't the black actors to cast, I think it's fine for a school to let their white students perform the piece. I would feel the same about say, The Wiz too. Not Dreamgirls, though. My opinion. | |
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| re: Yes the casting notice said non-white, I believe but... | |
| Posted by: ryhog 12:21 pm EDT 07/04/20 | |
| In reply to: Yes the casting notice said non-white, I believe but... - KingSpeed 01:15 am EDT 07/04/20 | |
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| I think this is an interesting question. Hamilton is not just about what it is about; it is about America then/America now and owning the history. That gets lost in a non-mixed cast but schools do lots of shows that lack verisimilitude. We shall see. | |
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| My only concern... | |
| Posted by: MockingbirdGirl 12:31 pm EDT 07/04/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Yes the casting notice said non-white, I believe but... - ryhog 12:21 pm EDT 07/04/20 | |
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| ... would be schools who see it as their duty to "restore" the historical figures for "authenticity." I have definitely seen ugly snippets of "how dare POC play white historical figures" in some less enlightened quarters this week. | |
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| re: My only concern... | |
| Posted by: ryhog 01:17 pm EDT 07/04/20 | |
| In reply to: My only concern... - MockingbirdGirl 12:31 pm EDT 07/04/20 | |
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| Yeah. I think the content of the show would make it hard to fully "restore" and I also think the show would prove substantively undesirable in those quarters but it is definitely something that they will need to monitor. | |
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