March on Broadway!! (List of demands) — Page 3

unclevictor said: "ctorres23 said: "I suggest you talk to POC cast members about cast diversity. Please don’t forget to say, “my personal eye test from just having seen a lot of shows is that casts tend to be pretty diverse these days."

Ok, good suggestion. I'll just dial-up all the POC Broadway actors I know.

Do you think that POC have less than 20-25% of Broadway roles? I don't have hard data on it, hence "eye test".

There are obviously some lilly-white casts, there are a lot of casts that are mixed with significant POC representation, and then there are a handful of casts that are majority POC.

unclevictor said: "ctorres23 said: "unclevictor said: "did you really type BIPOC are overrepresented onstage?"

You left off the last part. I typed "overrepresented on stage compared to the baseline population statistics".

In a perfectly colorblind society, the racial and ethnic breakdown of the population on stage would theoretically match the general population. So if a colorblind society is the goal (which, I assume, it is?) then matching or exceeding those baseline population numbers should be what "success" looks like in terms of diversity.

Again, I don't know whether that baseline is exceeded or not, if you ran the numbers across all company members of all shows in the last 5+ years. But my personal eye test from just having seen a lot of shows is that casts tend to be pretty diverse these days."

I suggest you talk to POC cast members about cast diversity. Please don’t forget to say, “my personal eye test from just having seen a lot of shows is that casts tend to be pretty diverse these days."

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You do a lot of defending but not a lot of explaining. What is it that YOU want?

For what it's worth, we don't have to rely on "eye tests" - Actors' Equity has studied this, and the results seem to align with what ctorres23 is saying. The percentage of white and black performers on the production contract is pretty representative of the country at large. On the other hand, Asian and especially Hispanic/Latin American performers seem to be pretty underrepresented, and among stage management white people are highly overrepresented.

Source: https://www.actorsequity.org/news/PR/DandIReport2020/diversity-and-inclusion-report-2020

I wonder if this movement would be more effective if it could focus on specific groups and areas where diversity could be improved.

sassylash3s said: "For what it's worth, we don't have to rely on "eye tests" - Actors' Equity has studied this, and the results seem to align with what ctorres23 is saying. The percentage of white and black performers on the production contract is pretty representative of the country at large. On the other hand, Asian and especially Hispanic/Latin American performers seem to be pretty underrepresented, and among stage managementwhite people are highly overrepresented.

Source:https://www.actorsequity.org/news/PR/DandIReport2020/diversity-and-inclusion-report-2020

I wonder if this movement would be more effective if it could focus on specific groups and areas where diversity could be improved."

You’re quoting actors equity? The mess of a union that doesn’t protect its members?
mostly white people are employed according to that demographics and pie chart

I totally agree. The March was an absolute mess.

JSquared2 said:

The “March” was made up of mostly non-Equity actorsand a LOT of stans hoping to interact with actual Broadway actors. Gigantic waste of space and time."

Probably the same 20 yo children who appear on my video feeds asking that ushers at the Winter Garden protest/disrupt audience members at Music Man when it opens, or those who think any revival should never be produced on Broadway, because Beetlejuice closed, censoring the show's voice...okay,