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[satisfiied]

Posted: 12/13/17 at 2:16pm

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[QueenAlice]

Posted: 12/13/17 at 2:17pm

Should the Nazi's be played by people of color too?

[BwayLB]

Posted: 12/13/17 at 2:41pm

How about Audra McDonald graduating from Mother Abbesses to Maria.

[satisfiied]

Posted: 12/13/17 at 2:44pm

BwayLB said: "How about Audra McDonald graduating from Mother Abbesses to Maria."

Honestly I'm up for Audra McDonald to do any and all roles on Broadway. So that's a yes for me.

[haterobics]

Posted: 12/13/17 at 2:46pm

satisfiied said: "most productions are white as hell. Any ideas?"

You look up how racially diverse Austria was in 1938, not to mention the Nazi party?

[newintown]

Posted: 12/13/17 at 2:54pm

Maria                        Nicki Minaj
Mother Abbess        Tina Turner
Nuns:                       Various personnel from En Vogue, The Pointer Sisters, The Three Degrees, The Supremes, etc.
Captain von Trapp   Snoop Dogg
Liesl                          Ariana Grande
Rolf                           Bruno Mars
Friedrich                   Hudson Yang             
Kurt                           Miles Brown
Brigitta                      Chloe Bailey
Marta                        Halley Bailey
Gretl                          Quvenzhané Wallis
Elsa Schraeder         Ann Harada
Max Detweiler           George Takei
Frau Schmidt            Alma Cuervo
Herr Zeller                Danny Trejo

[ms_joaquin]

Posted: 12/13/17 at 2:55pm

Cynthia erivo loves this thread!

[newintown]

Posted: 12/13/17 at 3:00pm

And then cast A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, and the entire oevres of A.R. Gurney, Noel Coward, and Somerset Maugham with only actors of color. Fun!

[GeorgeandDot]

Posted: 12/13/17 at 3:08pm

How about us people of color write our own new musicals that share our stories, instead of trying to create some BS like this?

Also, Audra Mcdonald is 27 years too old for Maria, who is supposed to be a very young woman.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 12/13/17 at 3:10pm

Denee Benton wouldn’t be a bad Maria.

[satisfiied]

Posted: 12/13/17 at 3:11pm

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[Itonlytakesajourney]

Posted: 12/13/17 at 3:15pm

I am all for colorblind casting but this is a tad extreme. Colorblind casting shouldn’t bother anyone if if doesn’t necessarily interfere with the story, but in this case casting the Nazi’s as POC would be all kinds of wrong.

[JSquared2]

Posted: 12/13/17 at 3:17pm

satisfiied said: "I would love for there to be a revival of SOM but only with people of color as most productions are white as hell. Any ideas?


Sounds like a pretty racist production to me.

 

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[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 12/13/17 at 3:27pm

Wait can I just point out how ridiculous it is to say it’s wrong for people of color to play nazis when there are people of color playing slave owners in Hamilton.......

[lotiloti]

Posted: 12/13/17 at 3:28pm

James Earl Jones as Max

[newintown]

Posted: 12/13/17 at 3:30pm

I hope this thread goes on for ever.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 12/13/17 at 3:33pm

satisfiied said: "GeorgeandDot said: "How about us people of color write our own new musicals that share our stories, instead of trying to create some BS like this?"

I'm sorry. The Sound of Music is one of my favorite musicals of all time and it kills me to know I will likely never be able to be this show because of my skin color."

You don't need to be sorry....if one wrote their own musical here; we wouldn't be able to "cast" it as we wouldn't know the piece.   

[haterobics]

Posted: 12/13/17 at 3:33pm

Call_me_jorge said: "Wait can I just point out how ridiculous it is to say it’s wrong for people of color to play nazis when there are people of color playing slave owners in Hamilton......."

Hamilton is sort of turning something on its head through transgressive casting and storytelling. If you're a POC playing a Nazi in Sound of Music, you're just a POC playing a Nazi.

[newintown]

Posted: 12/13/17 at 3:49pm

It seems that satisfiied is not very satisfied...

[haterobics]

Posted: 12/13/17 at 4:03pm

newintown said: "It seems that satisfiied is not very satisfied..."

Shh.... this thread is deleted.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 12/14/17 at 12:53am

Call_me_jorge said: "Wait can I just point out how ridiculous it is to say it’s wrong for people of color to play nazis when there are people of color playing slave owners in Hamilton......."

It isn't ridiculous because the two shows are written in
very different styles. SOM is highly representational;
HAMILTON is deliberately not.

I'm not convinced Broadway actually has a diversity
problem when it comes to supporting and ensemble
roles. (African-Americans make up 10% of the national
population. Is there a study that shows how many
Equity roles go to black people? The situation seems
quite different when it comes to stars, management
and design personnel. There diversity remains very
much an issue, I think. (Again, I've seen no formal data.)

But assuming we need more roles for African-Americans,
the solution is to stop doing representational productions
of shows such as SOM, maybe to stop doing SOM at all.
There are plenty of shows that can be cast "color blind"
without violating the style of the text. OKLAHOMA!, to
take the example of another R&H show. The West was
all-white only in Hollywood's imagination; black people
made up a large percentage of people who went west
after the Civil War. A color-blind OKLAHOMA! would
make perfect, even realistic, sense. We seem to accept
diversity in CAROUSEL as well.

[gypsy101]

Posted: 12/14/17 at 1:25am

GeorgeandDot said: "How about us people of color write our own new musicals that share our stories, instead of trying to create some BS like this?

Also, Audra Mcdonald is 27 years too old for Maria, who is supposed to be a very young woman."

news flash: Mary Martin was 47 when she played Maria. Audra McDonald is currently 47. so actually she is the perfect age!

[haterobics]

Posted: 12/14/17 at 1:32am

gypsy101 said: "news flash: Mary Martin was 47when she played Maria. Audra McDonald is currently 47. so actually she is the perfect age!"

So they're both 20 years too old. The ability to do a good job at something doesn't mean you are the right person to do it.

[adrnyc]

Posted: 12/15/17 at 8:50am

What about age blind casting?  If we can have color blind casting (which I'm all for), the next obvious step would be age blind casting. Ageism is the last great "ism" that will be fought, I imagine. 

[dramamama611]

Posted: 12/15/17 at 9:01am

It has far more to do with how old one LOOKS than it does actual  age.