In 1975, Saigon was full of white bar girls
In 1975, Saigon was full of white bar girls
#1In 1975, Saigon was full of white bar girls
Posted: 4/21/09 at 12:08pm
Who knew?
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Photo_Flash_MISS_SAIGON_At_Grosse_Pointe_War_Memorial_20000101
#2re: In 1975, Saigon was full of white bar girls
Posted: 4/21/09 at 12:09pmIf you don't have the right cast to do a show, then don't do it. Couldn't they just do THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS, plenty of white girls in that show.
#2re: In 1975, Saigon was full of white bar girls
Posted: 4/21/09 at 12:11pmWow, that is awesome. The Engineer is a Soprano too. :)The actors may be great but the photos look like bad "Glamour Shots" or those places at amusement parks where you dress up like saloon girls.
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#3re: In 1975, Saigon was full of white bar girls
Posted: 4/21/09 at 12:12pmShut up. When Susan Boyle plays Kim you will all EAT YOUR WORDS!
#4re: In 1975, Saigon was full of white bar girls
Posted: 4/21/09 at 12:13pmThe Engineer looks like Alfred Molina in Not Without My Daughter.
#5in 1975, saigon was full of white bar girls
Posted: 4/21/09 at 12:15pmseriously. this is why most shows should not be licensed outside their original countries. i mean, c'mon, shakespeare - other than othello - with black guys? please.
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#6in 1975, saigon was full of white bar girls
Posted: 4/21/09 at 12:16pmYou are so right, papa. People need to stop standing in the way of the white man.
#7in 1975, saigon was full of white bar girls
Posted: 4/21/09 at 12:18pmthere should totally be a government agency that reviews theatres and allows or disallows productions based on their casting ability.
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Phyllis Rogers Stone
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#8in 1975, saigon was full of white bar girls
Posted: 4/21/09 at 12:22pmI think that Susan Boyle should just play every role ever written.
PiraguaGuy2
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#9in 1975, saigon was full of white bar girls
Posted: 4/21/09 at 12:23pmNice to see the fat guy from Borat getting work.
ErinDillyFan
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#10in 1975, saigon was full of white bar girls
Posted: 4/21/09 at 12:43pm
ray-andallthatjazz86 -
Are you really saying no community theater or high school should be able to South Pacific, The King & I, etc without the original races represented. They don't even do that on broadway. I am going to see another community theater 20 miles from that one do Miss Siagon next month, bet they don't have more than 2 vietnamese in the cast.
PiraguaGuy2
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#11in 1975, saigon was full of white bar girls
Posted: 4/21/09 at 12:46pmMy school did South Pacific with four de Beque children - two asian boys, one white girl, one black girl. Bloody Mary was played Mrs. Meers-style by a white girl. We DID have an Asian Liat.
SporkGoddess
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#12in 1975, saigon was full of white bar girls
Posted: 4/21/09 at 12:49pmHas there ever even been a Vietnamese Kim?
#13in 1975, saigon was full of white bar girls
Posted: 4/21/09 at 12:49pma friend of mine showed me a dvd of her school's all white production of ragtime. the less said about it the better
#14in 1975, saigon was full of white bar girls
Posted: 4/21/09 at 12:50pm
I am going to see another community theater 20 miles from that one do Miss Siagon next month, bet they don't have more than 2 vietnamese in the cast.
They don't have to be that specific. But they should at least have actual Asians, if not ethnically Vietnamese.
LOL, ratherbewhaling, was it like this?
http://musicals.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=67027
eatlasagna
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#15in 1975, saigon was full of white bar girls
Posted: 4/21/09 at 1:08pm
at this point... i give up... like i wrote in another post... just freaking cast white people in everything now... they can get away with everything now... but cast lea salonga or norm lewis in les miserables and people get all crazy that minorities are playing white roles!
and for what it's worth... YES... if there are no asians in the area then don't freaking do THE KING AND I... the damn show is about an asian king and his family... so what the hell would you cast a white person for? just to boost your ego?
#16in 1975, saigon was full of white bar girls
Posted: 4/21/09 at 1:18pm
No reason Deena cant be white... 
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Phyllis Rogers Stone
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#17in 1975, saigon was full of white bar girls
Posted: 4/21/09 at 1:19pmLooks like Michelle is white, too. And either Curtis, CC, or Jimmy as well!
#18in 1975, saigon was full of white bar girls
Posted: 4/21/09 at 1:23pm"Effie, we all got pain!"
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Phyllis Rogers Stone
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#19in 1975, saigon was full of white bar girls
Posted: 4/21/09 at 1:25pmThere's that crazy video out there of some community theatre production, with a middle-aged white lady as Effie. I think her name was Julia something.
#20in 1975, saigon was full of white bar girls
Posted: 4/21/09 at 1:28pm
Oh, **** yeah...I'll look for it!
What's the opposite of R&B?
Course, we all know who can do it over in London...
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#21in 1975, saigon was full of white bar girls
Posted: 4/21/09 at 1:54pm
ray-andallthatjazz86 -
Are you really saying no community theater or high school should be able to South Pacific, The King & I, etc without the original races represented. They don't even do that on broadway. I am going to see another community theater 20 miles from that one do Miss Siagon next month, bet they don't have more than 2 vietnamese in the cast.
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. There's hundreds of shows white people can play, no need for them to take the couple of minority roles as well. Did they seriously need to put on MISS SAIGON?
Remember the way people went on and on about how an all-black cast wouldn't work for CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF? Or how it's distracting for Audra McDonald to play John Cullum's daughter? Or how Daphne Rubin-Vega was too "ethnic" for Fantine? Well, I'm doing exactly the same thing here.
#22in 1975, saigon was full of white bar girls
Posted: 4/21/09 at 2:00pm
I love the fact that this ad is on the bottom of my page when I open this thread:
#23in 1975, saigon was full of white bar girls
Posted: 4/21/09 at 2:02pm
Well, it's not the one I was looking for, but here's one white Effie...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgAdX_GsAxM&feature=related
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#24in 1975, saigon was full of white bar girls
Posted: 4/21/09 at 2:10pm
there's hundreds of shows white people can play, no need for them to take the couple of minority roles as well.
because clearly the huge ethnic theatre populations in these places are being discriminated against. i think they do it just to make fun of those damn brownies.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
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