| re: The Life...utterly shameful. |
| Last Edit: Delvino 09:49 am EDT 03/20/22 |
| Posted by: Delvino 09:46 am EDT 03/20/22 |
| In reply to: re: The Life...utterly shameful. - KingSpeed 02:54 am EDT 03/20/22 |
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As an old white guy, I try to stay out of what's accurate and what's less so in pieces like The Life. But I do know more than a few people of color, in and out of the industry, who are bone weary with so much attention paid to shows celebrating the white prism on "street culture," tired of seeing material that examines sex work, pimps, and abject criminality among African-American characters. Especially when performed for a predominately white audience. Which is still the case. So for those folks, Porter is issuing corrections to a milieu-specific story some would prefer to live on (only) via concerts and recordings.
Has anyone introduced The Capeman into these many Life threads? Remember what happened when talented Latinx hands tried to fix the work of two accomplished white men? The show still didn't work. Nor did Flower Drum Song for that matter, at least for most (it was not successful, artistically or commercially). I mention those two musicals because they are precedents from a previous error of retro-fixing. If the practice were more generally successful, we'd perhaps be more willing to view The Life and Tap Dance Kid as outliers. |
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