| re: This could well be the death of Encores. | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 06:48 pm EDT 03/17/22 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 06:42 pm EDT 03/17/22 | |
| In reply to: re: This could well be the death of Encores. - Singapore/Fling 05:50 pm EDT 03/17/22 | |
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| While I don't personally think at all that this is how it played out, if for no other reason than because Lear has made it CLEAR that Billy's designs for the show and his demand of rewriting it are very much in line with what she sees for producing at Encores... But I also do not think it's out of the line or out of the realm of reality that IF they had wanted Billy to direct The Life (assuming it would be clear they meant the show written in 1997, or even the version revised by the authors after that -- since that is the normal way of it at Encores) and he said yes but only if he can massively change it *because* he thinks it's the big magic P word, problematic, that they would feel worried that to then take their offer back (because they weren't intending to or prepared to be producing a huge reimagining of the show, which is quite a reasonable issue) would risk Billy saying publicly on his enormous platform that Encores wants to do show with many black sex worker characters, and offered for him to direct it, but when he said he'd need to make it un-problematic and his new better vision, that they rescinded their offer ... yes, that would look very bad to the woke social media warriors and probably even non-warriors. That doesn't mean Billy wouldn't be in his rights to say that, or that Encores wouldn't be in their rights to take back their offer (since he didn't want the job they were actually offering) and to hire a director interested in doing the score as written ... and it doesn't mean that "wokeness" is bad. But all those things combined, in that situation... could certainly scare a producer who wishes they'd never offered it to someone with that platform who now is unhappy with their revival happening and sees it as problematic. I don't think acknowledging this potential reality is the same as a racist bemoaning a black gay person using their voice (as a black person or as a gay person or both). Also, in the age of social media, if you have a lot of eyes on you and what you say there, anything you said is said, for all intents and purposes, "loudly"... it's like whispering into a megaphone. It doesn't matter if you "whispered" or yelled... it will echo far and wide and have a lot of eyes on it... eyes who often (not always or exclusively but often) love headlines. Lots of things, good and bad things, get taken out of context or misunderstood this way as well. It's the reality of social media, and media in general, regardless of racism issues or wokeness etc. That being said, you're certainly within your rights to address how the poster's post read to you, and why. And I am not the poster nor do I know them, so I can't speak to their real intentions, but the post didn't read quite the same way to me. |
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