#1
Posted: 6/14/16 at 11:15am
Am I the only one that sees that all musical winners were of color and all play winners were white????
#3
Posted: 6/14/16 at 11:19am
laurabenantilover said: "Am I the only one that sees that all musical winners were of color and all play winners were white????"
Congrats on just realizing this!
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#5
Posted: 6/14/16 at 11:45am
But what point do you want to make about that? Can't we just celebrate the diversity that was there, in the wins, in the nominations and actually ON STAGE?
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#6
Posted: 6/14/16 at 11:48am
I'm a little disappointed that so little attention was given to the non-racial aspects of diversity that were at play in Spring Awakening. We had deaf people on stage, we had an actress in a wheel chair (and boy does Michael Arden look like Christopher Fitzgerald 
#7
Posted: 6/14/16 at 12:55pm
Also noticed that on the Tonys. I saw Micheal Arden and thought that they had the wrong guy ??
#8
Posted: 6/14/16 at 2:13pm
During the opening speech when he said the Tonys are like the oscars but with diversity, I couldn't help notice the audience is still a LOT of old white dudes. Still a long way to go especially behind the scenes.
#9
Posted: 6/14/16 at 2:15pm
I think most producers are still old white dudes.
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#10
Posted: 6/14/16 at 2:54pm
What fascinated me more was that 3 of the 4 musical acting Tony winners played roles (Burr, Angelica, Lafayette/Jefferson) not traditionally played by people of color.
#11
Posted: 6/14/16 at 4:02pm
To solve the problem, all old white dudes plus all white actors should be totally banned from the theater forever. This should resolve the diversity problem quickly and forever.
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