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#51

STREETCAR Returning to Broadway in Spring with Underwood?

1. A multi-racial cast could work if the audience is just able to accept it as color blind casting: that nobody's race matters. (Like in a perfect world.)

2. I don't mind an older Stanley -- even if he's older than Blanche...then you are just playing around with the concept of worth, in the eye of the beholder. If Stella is young and pretty and desirable, and Blanche is deemed as past her prime, the actual age doesn't really matter: it's a perception of "value"...both Blanch's confidence as well as the southern society. Your younger sister getting married first could be perceived as terribly earth shattering to the older sister and the family.
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#52

STREETCAR Returning to Broadway in Spring with Underwood?

"Rose royally botched Maggie, so I'd like to keep her as far away from this production as possible. Sanaa Lathan would be an ideal Blanche."

heck no. sanaa lathan is so rigid and technical on stage you need a blanche who would throw her whole soul into it. i say audra mcdonald or deidre aziza two very good actresses. rose would make a much better stella. she has a gentleness about her face & voice that would be hard to translate into a blanche.

non-traditional casting is stupid. keep it black. people of all races will come to see a shirtless underwood.


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#53

STREETCAR Returning to Broadway in Spring with Underwood?

Stanley can be older than Stella...the standards that apply to Stella's past-it-ness hardly apply to Stanley. I would love to see Viola Davis take part.

Yay for Tennesse Williams getting some love in his centenery year. (Or 101st..)
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#54

STREETCAR Returning to Broadway in Spring with Underwood?

I directed an (almost) all-black production in college with two of the most extraordinary young actresses. They were remarkable and only 21.

But, I learned the hard way, that a multi-racial production ONLY makes sense if Stanley is white and the rest are black. It creates a stunning dichotomy for the "He walks like an animal..." speech.

We had an all-black cast, save one actor: our Mitch. This seemed wise to me, but I now realized that it should've been the other man.

Now, I must admit: I didn't go into it wanting to make a statement on race. If they want to, go for it. But for me it was about giving the students in our department who were remarkable forces an opportunity to play roles they'd (probably) never get to play professionally after graduation.
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#55

STREETCAR Returning to Broadway in Spring with Underwood?

I'm sorry, but are we all fine with another revival of this just seven years after the last major production?


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#56

STREETCAR Returning to Broadway in Spring with Underwood?

I don't know. I just can't ever see myself believing a production of Streetcar in which an African American is repeatedly referred to as a "Polack".
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#58

STREETCAR Returning to Broadway in Spring with Underwood?

Hell yeah, Sanaa!
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#59

STREETCAR Returning to Broadway in Spring with Underwood?

If Blair Underwood Is who I think he is he is about as masculine as Wally Cox, in comparing him to the totally and sexually masculine Marlon Brando.

Nevertheless, I have never seen a stage production of STREETCAR and would love the opportunity.
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#60

STREETCAR Returning to Broadway in Spring with Underwood?

"I don't know. I just can't ever see myself believing a production of Streetcar in which an African American is repeatedly referred to as a "Polack"."

I agree, Kad.

#61

STREETCAR Returning to Broadway in Spring with Underwood?

That explosion you just heard was Hunter Foster's head as he was furiously typing on his Facebook page about Hollywood actors making their Broadway debuts.
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#62

STREETCAR Returning to Broadway in Spring with Underwood?

"I don't know. I just can't ever see myself believing a production of Streetcar in which an African American is repeatedly referred to as a "Polack"."

Do we think it might not be possible to change 'Polack' to another...um...word?
#63

STREETCAR Returning to Broadway in Spring with Underwood?

Sure, it's possible, if the Miller estate allows it. I'm hard-pressed to think of a word equal in strength that would work in this context, though.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#64

STREETCAR Returning to Broadway in Spring with Underwood?

Blair Underwood? I don't see him being able to scream "Stella!" He seems a bit too metrosexual for the role.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#66

STREETCAR Returning to Broadway in Spring with Underwood?

"I'm hard-pressed to think of a word equal in strength that would work in this context, though."

You're kidding...right? Or are you arguing that the word 'n*' simply wouldn't be uttered by Blanche.
#69

STREETCAR Returning to Broadway in Spring with Underwood?

And ****! I meant Williams. After I posted, I hopped in the shower and it dawned on me. I haven't been able to edit my posts on here for a while.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#71

STREETCAR Returning to Broadway in Spring with Underwood?

I was thinking of estates that are really strict in regards to changes with scripts.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#72

STREETCAR Returning to Broadway in Spring with Underwood?

This is why I'd love to be an actor - from saving the planet from aliens in The Event to Tennessee Williams. And Blair Underwood is most definitely masculine enough for Stanley!

Did the Williams estate allow for any race-related changes to the fairly recent Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, or were any even needed?
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#73

STREETCAR Returning to Broadway in Spring with Underwood?

I don't recall there be anything in the text of CAT that is specifically race-related.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#74

STREETCAR Returning to Broadway in Spring with Underwood?

There is a line that Big Daddy has that refers to the 'n' word, but it didn't need to be changed to make sense.

I imagine there'll have to be some sort of change...or they're just going with 'Polack' and not worry too much about it.
#75

STREETCAR Returning to Broadway in Spring with Underwood?

It should be noted that when Tennessee Williams started licensing his plays, he made it a rule that any productions of his plays could not be performed if the audience was segregated.

And no, Blair Underwood is not masculine enough to play Stanley. He's too refined. He's not on the screen, he has to project enough character to fill a Broadway theater.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

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