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| re: Query about Shipoopi | |
| Posted by: MockingbirdGirl 01:16 pm EST 02/12/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Query about Shipoopi - Chromolume 12:43 pm EST 02/12/22 | |
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| I am trying to ascertain if those who insist the show must "accurately reflect a period, its people and the ways they behaved and talked" believe the diversity of the cast to be objectionable by that standard. | |
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| re: Query about Shipoopi | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 01:50 pm EST 02/12/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Query about Shipoopi - MockingbirdGirl 01:16 pm EST 02/12/22 | |
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| Yes. The question I asked still applies. | |
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| re: Query about Shipoopi | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 01:23 pm EST 02/12/22 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 01:23 pm EST 02/12/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Query about Shipoopi - MockingbirdGirl 01:16 pm EST 02/12/22 | |
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| They didn't change the text of "Der Rosenkavalier" when they had black Sophies like Kathleen Battle or Barbara Hendricks and despite taking place in 1740s Vienna, it doesn't and shouldn't matter. Cast "Music Man" with whoever can do the roles, but don't tinker with a book and songs that Meredith Willson went through something like 35 drafts of to make it Broadway worthy, as well as writing plenty of songs along the way that he discarded to make the show "just right" for the River City he envisioned and was honoring, and not making a cartoon of or ridiculing, which some of the reviews seem to think this production has done. | |
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