| work by any combo of "nonwhite, nonstraight, non cisgender males" is valid also | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 05:01 pm EDT 03/17/22 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 04:48 pm EDT 03/17/22 | |
| In reply to: re: This could well be the death of Encores. - Phaedrusnyc 04:41 pm EDT 03/17/22 | |
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| It's exhausting this idea that unless all voices of all "types" of peoples are involved then work is automatically tainted and rotten at its core, and the only solution is to throw it into a vault of theater history or to have someone(s) who are specifically nonwhite, nonstraight, non cisgender males reinvent and repurpose and massively rewrite it. This is not the only way forward or only way to address the imbalance in Broadway creative and producing teams that has been so prevalent in the past and also the present. Musicals written and produced by white people don't need to be vilified, or even in most cases dismantled, to fix the balance. Acknowledging the intense imbalance, and lamenting the very lamentable fact of the whiteness and largely maleness of the people behind the majority of all of Broadway musical history (and I assume we are considering Jews to be "white", even though of course they aren't the same kind of "white" ethnically or culturally and were absolutely in a different position in society when the Broadway musical was born and raised, it's not as if Broadway musicals were the specific art form of white British Christians)... that doesn't mean that all the work done by those creators and producers is bad and wrong and toxic and violent etc, and any art created in a work where racism infected (and still infects) all aspects of our society is to be seen as racist. Some of it may be problematic, some of it may be racially ignorant or insensitive in its existence or some of the writing, and hey, even some may be racist and those shows don't need to be saved or need to be fixed if they're otherwise worth saving. But these blanket statements and applications of headlines to everything written before now or by white people or male people being bad ... isn't good. And the fact that for so long white people have been the vast majority writing and directing on broadway doesn't mean that what they wrote is automatically bad or racist, it means it was produced within a system that favored (knowing or unknowingly, respective to these creators of the past), whiteness (be it in the artist or the subject or the audience), and what is really bad is that we don't have more musicals written by people of all races, and directed and produced by people of all races. That is where the energy should be going to fixing. |
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