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Casting Demographics

Casting Demographics

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Dave28282
#1Casting Demographics
Posted: 7/15/17 at 6:59am

I was just reading the article posted on BroadwayWorld about casting demographics.

"A recent study from Actors' Equity concluded: "Caucasians make up a majority of all onstage contracts - principal in a play (65 percent of contracts ) principal in a musical (66 percent of contracts ) and chorus (57 percent of contracts)."

And this is presented as an issue.

This is not about racially authentic casting, because different shows ask for different casting, but purely about the amount of contracts. 

Here is a list of the percentage in US population:

White American223,553,265                                72.4 %

Black American38,929,319                                  12.6 %

Asian American14,674,25                                    24.8 %

American Indian or Alaska Native2,932,2480.     9 %

Native Hawaiian/other Pacific Islander540,0130. 2 %

Some other race19,107,3686.                                2 %

Two or more races9,009,0732.                              9 %

 

Even if you would only count non-hispanic white, it's still 64% of the population so even that matches the contracts. In chorus contracts it's even much lower. Also, "Caucasian" covers all whites, including hispanic whites, so if you look at it that way, the work opportunities/amount of contracts for caucasians are about 10% too low.

So the real question here is; What is fair?

Updated On: 7/15/17 at 06:59 AM

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dramamama611
#2Casting Demographics
Posted: 7/15/17 at 7:34am

Yawn.


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Dave28282
#3Casting Demographics
Posted: 7/15/17 at 7:46am

That's what I thought too when I read the article.

mar6411
#4Casting Demographics
Posted: 7/15/17 at 7:55am

Yawn

Dave28282 = Dave19

Yawn

fb1123
#5Casting Demographics
Posted: 7/15/17 at 11:39am

and what about audience demographics?

carnzee
#6Casting Demographics
Posted: 7/15/17 at 12:40pm

Percentage of Americans who think Amanda Seyfried is the new Julie Andrews: 0.00%.

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temms
#7Casting Demographics
Posted: 7/16/17 at 10:54am

Your chart gives a total of 131.8%. 

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GeorgeandDot
#8Casting Demographics
Posted: 7/16/17 at 11:41am

You do know that you're a white supremacist, right?


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