What topics do you want Broadway to talk about but doesn't
What topics do you want Broadway to talk about but doesn't
FunnyGirl5
Chorus Member Joined: 11/16/15
#1What topics do you want Broadway to talk about but doesn't
Posted: 11/21/15 at 6:22am
I personally would love a musical about environmental concerns ! I would also love more musicals about foreign countries.
Updated On: 11/21/15 at 06:22 AM
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#2What topics do you want Broadway to talk about but doesn't
Posted: 11/21/15 at 10:43am
Urinetown.
c0113g3b0y
Leading Actor Joined: 9/16/15
#3What topics do you want Broadway to talk about but doesn't
Posted: 11/21/15 at 10:47am
muslim terorrists
#4What topics do you want Broadway to talk about but doesn't
Posted: 11/21/15 at 11:12am
We've been seeing more recently, but in general Broadway often ignores the topic of over-weight people, and rarely casts overweight people in general. I was happy to see Bring it On, It Shoulda Been You and Gigantic tackle the topic (though I haven't seen Gigantic yet, I obviously know what it's about)
#5What topics do you want Broadway to talk about but doesn't
Posted: 11/21/15 at 2:50pm
That's always a discussion I've been interested to bring up, Heavier people are rarely cast in lead roles that aren't specified as heavier characters, even when it wouldn't be a problem.
But that's not really a problem to be addressed ON Broadway, rather amongst the community.
mc1227
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/07
#6What topics do you want Broadway to talk about but doesn't
Posted: 11/21/15 at 6:20pm
Welcome to the real world. Overweight people have been shut out of jobs in many areas, not just Broadway.
#7What topics do you want Broadway to talk about but doesn't
Posted: 11/21/15 at 6:23pm
We just need an enthusiastic fat composer who writes a new show and casts all people of size to make us see that story through a new lens.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#8What topics do you want Broadway to talk about but doesn't
Posted: 11/21/15 at 6:30pm
Well, you know, Hairspray.
#9What topics do you want Broadway to talk about but doesn't
Posted: 11/21/15 at 6:31pm
Tracy and Edna are fat in the script. There's a difference between that and size-blind casting.
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#10What topics do you want Broadway to talk about but doesn't
Posted: 11/21/15 at 6:33pm
haterobics said: "Tracy and Edna are fat in the script. There's a difference between that and size-blind casting."
rattleNwoolypenguin
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/11/11
#11What topics do you want Broadway to talk about but doesn't
Posted: 11/22/15 at 4:02pm
That's what was wonderful about casting James Corden as the Baker in the Into the Woods. He's a bigger guy but that element is never made fun of, nor is it ever commented on. He's just this normal person.
Phantom4ever
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/17/07
#12What topics do you want Broadway to talk about but doesn't
Posted: 11/22/15 at 6:06pm
I'd like to see a show that addresses current issues within the black community. Especially the anti-black women attitude displayed by some black men.
#13What topics do you want Broadway to talk about but doesn't
Posted: 11/22/15 at 6:44pm
The struggle of red headed cis gendered orphan girls (and their dogs) to find a home during the depression.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#14What topics do you want Broadway to talk about but doesn't
Posted: 11/22/15 at 6:46pm
Years ago, before it became the in thing, there was an environmental musical. It was called Mother Earth. It flopped.
#15What topics do you want Broadway to talk about but doesn't
Posted: 11/22/15 at 6:59pm
Urinetown is kind of an environmental musical, though it's undercut by the comedic, contrarian ending.
#16What topics do you want Broadway to talk about but doesn't
Posted: 11/22/15 at 6:59pm
homeschool lol
#17What topics do you want Broadway to talk about but doesn't
Posted: 11/22/15 at 7:01pm
Actually, a musical about homeschooling would be genius.
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KCW
Featured Actor Joined: 10/31/15
#18What topics do you want Broadway to talk about but doesn't
Posted: 11/22/15 at 8:22pm
I remember seeing kinky boots and there being many non typical sized actors, although it was somewhat built inot the script?
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#19What topics do you want Broadway to talk about but doesn't
Posted: 11/22/15 at 8:26pm
Define "in thing."
The first Earth Day in New York City: April 22, 1970. "In addition to shutting down Fifth Avenue, Mayor John Lindsay made Central Park available for Earth Day. The crowd was estimated as more than one million..."
Mother Earth, Belasco Theater, October, 1972.
#20What topics do you want Broadway to talk about but doesn't
Posted: 11/22/15 at 8:51pm
Patti Austin was in the original cast of MOTHER EARTH.
Here are the musical numbers featured in the show:
Lyrics by Ron Thronson and Music by Toni Shearer
- Mama Who Bore Me
- Mama Who Bore Me (Reprise)
- All That's Known
- The Bitch of Living
- My Junk
- Touch Me
- The Word of Your Body
- The Dark I Know Well
- The Word of Your Body (Reprise)
- And Then There Were None
- The Mirror-Blue Night
- I Believe
- The Guilty Ones
- Blue Wind
- Left Behind
- Totally Fvcked
- The Word of Your Body (Reprise)
- Whispering
- Those You've Known
- The Song of Purple Summer
- There Once Was a Pirate
- Once Upon a Pirate Night
- The Mirror-Blue Night (Reprise)
- Touch Me (Reprise)
Total performances: 12
#21What topics do you want Broadway to talk about but doesn't
Posted: 11/22/15 at 9:02pm
^is this a joke?
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#22What topics do you want Broadway to talk about but doesn't
Posted: 11/22/15 at 9:11pm
The song titles sound great. In a way, the earth did bear us all.
#23What topics do you want Broadway to talk about but doesn't
Posted: 11/22/15 at 9:21pm
Just opened this thread for the first time since I posted in it (I sometimes lose track of these things!)
mc1227 said "Welcome to the real world. Overweight people have been shut out of jobs in many areas, not just Broadway."
I totally agree with you 100%. But the thread was about Broadway, so that's why I mentioned it specifically. Not sure the if your "welcome to the thread world" comment was necessary, but whatever.
I've seen very few examples of size-blind casting. The only one that comes to mind off the top of my head is Alysha Umphress in On The Town, which was great to see. I'm sure I've seen others, but that's one of the only ones I can think of where it directly fought against the notion that only skinny people can play sexy, desirable characters, and where it wasn't written into the script as a theme of the show.
I admit I totally forgot about Hairspray in my original post - it probably would have been a better example than the ones that I gave.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#24What topics do you want Broadway to talk about but doesn't
Posted: 11/22/15 at 9:36pm
I refuse to believe that one musical was the beginning and end of Broadway's conversation about cats.
#25What topics do you want Broadway to talk about but doesn't
Posted: 11/22/15 at 9:41pm
My friend and I saw a picture of Minnie Faye in a production of HELLO, DOLLY! where she was a kinda larger. I didn't think anything of it, but it annoyed him to no end. This still annoys him to this day. I can text Fat Minnie Faye to him just to get him going.
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