Profile for The Distinctive Baritone

The authors’ Instagram post makes me feel bad for them, but it is still a bit “cringe.” They clearly want to have their cake and eat it too – to have made it to Broadway and won major awards partly because of the show’s Asian representation, but now they want to be able to live off of the royalties for the rest of their lives, which will be a lot harder if all regional and educational productions are limited to Asian performers - who still

jakethesnake said: "I’m curious how many of the people posting on here also posted their concerns when a non-Jewish Latine woman was cast as Fanny Brice."

Yeah, there wasxa HUGE social media backlash when Katerina McCrimmon was cast in the tour. I really thought she was going to drop out. But she stayed with it, and once the tour opened and it was clear that she was fantastic in the role, everyone just kind of moved on. I guess the same thing will happen here.<

Hey Sutton: chill. I admitted I was wrong about the person who was quoted in the Playbill article. I am happy to be proved wrong. Being right all of the time would be quite boring, I imagine.

Additionally, I was not telling Wayman to chill about the MHE casting issue, I was telling him to chill towards me about misattributing the Jose Llana quote. Wayman has every right to be pissed about Andrew Barth Feldman taking on a role that really should have gone to an Asian man. So your venom

Wayman_Wong said: "''Ricamora’s statement that he is too old for the role of Oliver I think is his way of making the disclaimer of “For the record, I am mad about not because I wanted the role, but because some of my younger friends did.” Of course, had hebeen offered it, I’m sure he would have said yes.''

Get your facts straight. The actor who said he is too old to play Oliver wasn't Conrad Ricamora; it was Jose Llana. You have

FolliesCabaret said: "I saw this show in previews, so something could have been added, or maybe I just don't remember, but are there any lines or reasons these characters can't be older? If I'm suspending my disbelief to watch singing robots, there's no reason those robots have to be in their 20s. Isn't the whole point that Claire is breaking? I could see that working just as well with someone in their late 30s, early 40s, whatever age honestly. If the helperbots

My take is that the creators and producers want to open the show up to non-white casting so that there can be more regional and school productions in the future. They don’t want to lose money on residuals by making the show harder to cast outside of major cities. If they set the “white actors in these roles is okay!” precedent while the show is on Broadway then it sends a message for the future that their show is not hard to cast and you should absolutely do it at your

The reviews in Chicago were mixed, leaning negative. From what I remember, the consensus was that by putting so much focus on the supporting role of Lady Chablis (G. Harrison Ghee), the main storyline of Jim Williams became secondary and the whole show was too much of a hodgepodge. I think they were trying to capitalize on our newfound celebratory attitude towards transness (as well as Ghee’s recent Tony win), and ended up telling too many stories at once. I have actually been slowly ma

Watching the whole clip where he also reveals his nonsensical “backstory” for his version of the Emcee as an American fleeing the Jim Crow South of the 1930s leads me to believe that he really has no actual “take” on the character - at least not one that is based on the text or the much documented history of how Hal Prince came up with that character and why. As a result, he is unable to answer the interviewers’ questions with any clarity or depth, and his statem

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "I like the design of the Beast and losing some of those theme park-style prosthetics to really let the actor shine. Is it weird from a race standpoint and would they be doing the same for a white actor as the beast? I don't know, it's Disney I'd rather not think that hard...”

That occurred to me me as well. The optics of a black Beast and white Belle are a little iffy to begin with, but here it seems they were like, &ld

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "Would love to see a big, lavish, period-setBroadway revival of AMADEUS someday!"

A few years ago, Anthony Ramos announced he was playing Mozart in a Broadway revival of Amadeus, but it never materialized. I imagine that part of the reason is that it is not cheap to mount. Salieri is also a mammoth role (the film cut/trimmed some of his very long speeches), and in Broadway's modern economy, would not only requ