Parade Question
Parade Question
#1Parade Question
Posted: 6/25/12 at 10:25pmCan Parade be done effectively if you take out the racial elements?
#2Parade Question
Posted: 6/25/12 at 10:31pmNo. Then it becomes a "Why" show.
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#2Parade Question
Posted: 6/25/12 at 10:37pmIf the question is 'Should we do PARADE with an all white case?' the answer is no.
#3Parade Question
Posted: 6/25/12 at 10:40pm
No. Why would you want to?
If you want a show that doesn't deal with the issues that Parade explores you should choose a different to show altogether.
Parade is, at its core, a show about how prejudice (both racism and anti-semitism)can be used to manipulate and pervert the truth.
Plus, it's based on a true story.
It would be like doing Sweeney Todd without the elements of revenge.
....but the world goes 'round
Updated On: 6/25/12 at 10:40 PM
#4Parade Question
Posted: 6/25/12 at 10:43pm
What about an all-white version of THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS? Would that work?
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Updated On: 6/25/12 at 10:43 PM
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#6Parade Question
Posted: 6/26/12 at 7:09amKind of like doing WICKED without the magical elements. No.
PEACE.
#7Parade Question
Posted: 6/26/12 at 7:34amKinda like doing Starlight Express without the roller skates.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.
PattiLover
Stand-by Joined: 2/20/04
#9Parade Question
Posted: 6/26/12 at 12:07pmEven in the new scaled down cast (Still upset you cannot do the large cast show anymore) you would still need at least 2 black people.
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#10Parade Question
Posted: 6/26/12 at 12:18pmI haven't seen a production with the scaled down cast, but it bothers me on principle that Jim Conley and Newt Lee are doubled.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
Owen22
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/24/11
#11Parade Question
Posted: 6/26/12 at 12:47pmI always thought the real bravery would be to do "Scottsboro Boys" with an all-white cast in black face, which is a real minstrel show. That it might be too ironic to actually drive the original point home, however, might be lost on a audience who might just look at the surface and call racism. Which would be understandable. But I think someday, "Scottsboro Boys" will be done this way and it will be revelatory.
AEA AGMA SM
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/13/09
#12Parade Question
Posted: 6/26/12 at 12:49pm
"Even in the new scaled down cast (Still upset you cannot do the large cast show anymore) you would still need at least 2 black people."
You are not required to follow the doubling used in other productions. It may be the text of the 2007 revisal, but you are still free to cast it as large as you please.
#13Parade Question
Posted: 6/26/12 at 2:03pmSome of the doubling is pretty weird.
"I think lying to children is really important, it sets them off on the right track" -Sherie Rene Scott-
#14Parade Question
Posted: 6/26/12 at 8:38pm
Kinda like doing "Sunset Boulevard" without the grand house and staircase.
Wait a minute...
#15Parade Question
Posted: 6/26/12 at 8:59pmIs this from the same people that did the all-white Hairspray?
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