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re: NYT's Ethicist column: "Our Theater is Fighting About Diversity. Who’s Right?"
Posted by: Zelgo 02:45 pm EDT 05/17/23
In reply to: re: NYT's Ethicist column: "Our Theater is Fighting About Diversity. Who’s Right?" - TheHarveyBoy 01:23 pm EDT 05/17/23

Why not have Whites and Asians in Porgy & Bess, The Wiz, and Ma Rainey's?

We will live a multi-cultural society and theatre should reflect where we are today.

Does anyone expect Porgy and Bess produced in China to old have Black actors?
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re: NYT's Ethicist column: "Our Theater is Fighting About Diversity. Who’s Right?"
Posted by: showtunesoprano 01:40 pm EDT 05/18/23
In reply to: re: NYT's Ethicist column: "Our Theater is Fighting About Diversity. Who’s Right?" - Zelgo 02:45 pm EDT 05/17/23

"Does anyone expect Porgy and Bess produced in China to old have Black actors?"

As many people know, Gershwin's estate requires it to be performed by Black actors and I know a great many American Black opera singers who regularly travel to Germany to perform Porgy there. Unless it was unlicensed, or somehow exempted, I would think a production in China would have to do the same.
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re: NYT's Ethicist column: "Our Theater is Fighting About Diversity. Who’s Right?"
Last Edit: AlanScott 04:04 pm EDT 05/18/23
Posted by: AlanScott 04:03 pm EDT 05/18/23
In reply to: re: NYT's Ethicist column: "Our Theater is Fighting About Diversity. Who’s Right?" - showtunesoprano 01:40 pm EDT 05/18/23

Linking an Anthony Tommasini piece on whether Porgy and Bess should be restricted to black artists, with interesting quotes from Simon Estes, who felt it should not be so limited.
Link Porgy and Bess
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re: NYT's Ethicist column: "Our Theater is Fighting About Diversity. Who’s Right?"
Posted by: Billhaven 03:47 pm EDT 05/17/23
In reply to: re: NYT's Ethicist column: "Our Theater is Fighting About Diversity. Who’s Right?" - Zelgo 02:45 pm EDT 05/17/23

Forgive me for not feeling sorry for all the white actors denied access to perform in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Theses posts usually make a pitch for the white Raisin in the Sun, too.
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