Casting call for a real live doll to play Barbie in musical tour
Posted: 6/26/05 at 3:38am

what about ken? i wanna play ken!
Posted: 6/26/05 at 3:44am
"You know how the film stars do it, where they get successful and then go back to do a play -- she's just following in that same tradition."
Because...doing theatre is SUCH a step down from success and doing solely theatre isn't really success, now is it?
(Sticks finger down throat- much like Barbie.)
Posted: 6/26/05 at 3:49am
Updated On: 2/15/14 at 03:49 AM
Posted: 6/26/05 at 3:56am
Posted: 6/26/05 at 3:59am
But after that comment- I'm going on strike. And my little Asian-adopted child will not play with them.
Instead we'll buy double the Legos.
Posted: 6/26/05 at 7:51am
New Ad campaign for Q-
Lucy T Slut will be away auditioning for the Barbie Tour.
Lucy T Sluteralla will be back after the tour.
Open call for Sluteralla.
This little venture proves what a sick society we live in.
Barbie has and always will be a bad role model for little girls.
How many tall skinny blondes are there really. And Barbie makes children unhappy with themselves if they don't look like that.
Barbie creates anorexic, eating disorders and unhappiness with many young girls. I think the world should not embrace plastic.
There should be Kate Monster dolls because most of the world are not Barbie.
Thank G-d, my parents took me to real theatre at age 3.
I think a show about Barbie is repulsive.
Maybe Tracy Turblad dolls would be the answer.
This thread makes me sick.
Updated On: 6/26/05 at 07:51 AM
Posted: 6/26/05 at 8:13am
With that said, I think it's a stupid idea for a show and that comment about film stars going back to do a show was really really wrong =/
Updated On: 6/26/05 at 08:13 AM
Posted: 6/26/05 at 9:15am
"'She cut her teeth in movies, now she's ready to tackle Broadway,' hooted Chris Byrne, a New York City-based toy consultant."
I don't think an 80 city tour of Fairytopia counts as Broadway.
Posted: 6/26/05 at 9:29am
Posted: 6/26/05 at 10:00am
~Jessica
Posted: 6/26/05 at 10:09am
Posted: 6/26/05 at 11:29am
Didn't you forget that Barbie was remodeled to more realistic proportions? They even re-designed the face for the very reasons you pointed out in your post.
From reading your post I gather your anger goes much deeper than just a Barbie doll.
Your suggestion of a Kate Monster or Tracy Turnblad leads me to believe you may be overweight. I may be wrong though.
Anyway the reverse isn't right either. If we tell kids it's "okay to be fat" what will happen then? Will we wind up raising a nation of overweight kids? Being overweight and saying it's "okay" isn't necessarily healthy either.
Those who let themeselves be guided by images of dolls, etc have much more deeply rooted problems IMO.
Updated On: 6/26/05 at 11:29 AM
Posted: 6/26/05 at 11:43am
Posted: 6/26/05 at 12:03pm
Posted: 6/26/05 at 1:28pm
Besides...growing up fat is no picnic (no pun intended). While I know skinny kids sometimes get teased too, which is not cool, growing up in this society, there is no way you could possibly grow up with the message that it's ok to me fat (unfortunatly).
Geeze, I wish people could embrace all body types.
Posted: 6/26/05 at 1:35pm
Posted: 6/26/05 at 1:37pm
Posted: 6/26/05 at 1:46pm
Kay, the Thread-Jacking Jedi
Quando omni flunkus moritati (When all else fails, play dead...)
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Posted: 6/26/05 at 1:58pm
Posted: 6/26/05 at 2:16pm
That's not where i was coming from. I meant that being over your weight or obese is not healthy. Then again being emaciated isn't healthy either. That's why they're called OVERweight and UNDERweight respectively. I don't expect everyone to be tanned and buffed either, let's be realistic.
Posted: 6/26/05 at 5:23pm
This Fairytopia thing sound like it would be a kid's show like "Sesame Street Live" or those Blue's Clues shows, and the closest those got to Broadway was Madison Square Garden.
Posted: 6/26/05 at 7:33pm
Posted: 6/26/05 at 9:29pm
Posted: 6/26/05 at 9:39pm
NOW that being said, I'd probably think very differently if I were 6.
However, I really don't think there's as much of a problem with Barbie as a role model as people think there is. Seems to me it's more like "I want to be a doctor becuase I have Doctor Barbie" and frankly, it's not the best reason, but it's certainly not bad either. As a kid, I never gave looking like Barbie a second thought. My Barbies were fun dolls with lots of clothes to change into and hair that I could style.
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