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| re: NYT: Yes, Some Musicals Are Unwoke. That’s Not a Writ to Rewrite Them. | |
| Posted by: richmurphy 10:44 am EST 02/16/22 | |
| In reply to: NYT: Yes, Some Musicals Are Unwoke. That’s Not a Writ to Rewrite Them. - MockingbirdGirl 09:14 pm EST 02/15/22 | |
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| Why doesn’t it suffice to make clear, perhaps with a disclaimer in the program, that the Encores! team does not endorse certain attitudes of earlier times but still thinks that the revived piece is worthy of a revival that hews as closely as possible to the original? Exactly. Warner Bros. does something similar with its "politically incorrect" cartoons of the past, without censoring them. Why can't Encores? |
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| re: NYT: Yes, Some Musicals Are Unwoke. That’s Not a Writ to Rewrite Them. | |
| Posted by: singleticket 06:33 pm EST 02/16/22 | |
| In reply to: re: NYT: Yes, Some Musicals Are Unwoke. That’s Not a Writ to Rewrite Them. - richmurphy 10:44 am EST 02/16/22 | |
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| Warner Bros. does something similar with its "politically incorrect" cartoons of the past, without censoring them. Why can't Encores? Perhaps because Encores isn't owned like those Warner Brothers cartoons by a $20 billion a year corporation like AT&T. If corporations owned all those Confederate monuments that have been taken down I wonder if they'd still be standing with explanation plaques. American questions. |
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| re: NYT: Yes, Some Musicals Are Unwoke. That’s Not a Writ to Rewrite Them. | |
| Posted by: richmurphy 08:06 pm EST 02/16/22 | |
| In reply to: re: NYT: Yes, Some Musicals Are Unwoke. That’s Not a Writ to Rewrite Them. - singleticket 06:33 pm EST 02/16/22 | |
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| Perhaps because Encores isn't owned like those Warner Brothers cartoons by a $20 billion a year corporation like AT&T. If corporations owned all those Confederate monuments that have been taken down I wonder if they'd still be standing with explanation plaques. American questions. So what do you suggest? Should Warner Bros. edit them to make them acceptable to 2022 sensibilities? Or should they be locked away, or maybe thrown in a bonfire? |
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| re: NYT: Yes, Some Musicals Are Unwoke. That’s Not a Writ to Rewrite Them. | |
| Posted by: singleticket 08:16 pm EST 02/16/22 | |
| In reply to: re: NYT: Yes, Some Musicals Are Unwoke. That’s Not a Writ to Rewrite Them. - richmurphy 08:06 pm EST 02/16/22 | |
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| So what do you suggest? If I were king of the world and if that cartoon was caricaturing my particular ethnicity or race? I don't know, I suppose it would depend on the cartoon. I'd definitely make them available to the public in libraries. I'm not sure if I'd put them to use as jolly money makers. |
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