| Addressing a couple of factual points in the letter | |
| Last Edit: AlanScott 05:17 pm EST 11/12/22 | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 05:16 pm EST 11/12/22 | |
| In reply to: Tonya Pinkins: Open Letter To Jesse Green of the New York Times - standingO 01:50 pm EST 11/12/22 | |
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| Ms. Pinkins wrote: “This is the first off-broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s play in history.” In August 1986, a Roundabout production of the play opened. This was when the Roundabout was at 100 East 17th Street, before the Roundabout had a Broadway theatre. The production restored about 10-15 minutes of previously cut text, although not the scene with Mrs. Johnson. That scene was restored in the 1989 American Playhouse production of the play, which featured most of the Roundabout cast, but replaced Olivia Cole (who had played Lena Younger at the Roundabout) with Esther Rolle, and replaced James Pickens, Jr. (who had played Walter Lee Younger at the Roundabout) with Danny Glover. Ms. Pinkins wrote: “There is zero irony in the fact that this first production of Lorraine’s play to be done as a protest play which centers the women as Lorraine intended would be misunderstood and panned by the New York Times.” There have been thousands of productions of this play. Probably tens of thousands. How can anyone assume that no earlier productions did it “as a protest play which centers the women”? |
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