Most offensive production you've seen/heard about?

There's an amateur production of Avenue Q opening this weekend that has a white actress playing Christmas Eve because rumor has it they couldn't find an Asian actress to play the role.

Also last year I saw a production of a straight play of Peter Pan where all of the Indians were in full-on redface. It was... uncomfortable.

I heard Lindsay Lohan did a David Mamet play.

But there was also this show where Eden Espinosa lived in a garbage can or something and would poke her head out of it and scream at the audience for 2 hours.

Jordan, that post almost made me spray coffee on my computer.

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Side Show. They couldn't find conjoined twins to play Violet and Daisy? Outrageous.

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I remember that, taz! They all staged a march in protest. Of course, they all died in the street two blocks in, but supplied Top Chef with enough ingredients for their restaurant wars. Angry ceviche is actually really tasty.

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When I saw Lombardi a few years ago, they talked a lot about how great his teams were at running, passing and scoring but hardly anything about them as defenders and preventing the other team from scoring so yes, I would have to say that was the most offensive production I've seen.

I heard about this musical where the girl's mother is supposed to be really fat, and they had a skinny guy in a fat suit play the part!

Not necessarily an offensive production, but along the same lines as the Avenue Q casting in OP's post: I once saw a community theater production of A Chorus Line, and the part of Connie Wong was played by a white actress. That would've been fine if they couldn't find an Asian actress, but one of the dancers who was cut at the very beginning was Asian. Her nondescript character is the first to sing ("I really need this job / Please, God I need this job / I've got to get this job!") and the Asian chick had a pretty good voice, judging by that bit, and she was petite. I kept wondering why she wasn't cast as Connie. It was weird.

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