Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
#1Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 7:28pmIt disgusts me and it should disgust you, as well.
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#2Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 7:38pmActually, your avatar disgusts me :)
#2Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 7:49pm^Lol, and I don't know. At first I was annoyed, but there's really nothing we can do...
#3Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 7:49pmI think we should boycott the show.
#4Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 8:08pm
You mean the Tonys?
Oh and this thread is RACIST!
yeah
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#5Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 8:08pm
I find one-sided "racism" amusing. In a totally unrelated topic, some people were saying that RuPaul's Drag Race was "racist" because two black drag queens won two years in a row. I read some articles that stated the very idea of people calling RuPaul's Drag Race racist was, in itself, racist! Apparently white people can be racist but black people can't be? And, if you accuse anyone of racism against white people, you're being racist?? LOL
So, then, can we say that this topic is, in a sense, racist?
#6Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 8:13pm
It is clear that if we didn't have male and female Tony categories, only males would get nominated.
So I think they should have new categories, "best WHITE actor in a musical", "best BLACK actor in a musical".
That way, white people and black people are equally nominated, so it is not racist.
Boycott the Tonys until they do this 
!!
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Updated On: 5/17/10 at 08:13 PM
yeah
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#7Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 8:15pm
LOL! Brilliant idea!!!
#8Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 8:21pmSo in other words, qolbineau, separate but equal?
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Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
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Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
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Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
#9Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 8:34pm
Exactly.
We should get Orfeh to lead our campaign, I heard she is into irish rights or something.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#10Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 8:39pmOrfeh should get her own category so she can win every year. She would pass that Angela Whatshername easily.
#11Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 8:41pmWhy stop there? Why not "Best performance by a Gay guy in a Straight role."?
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
#12Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 8:56pmThen you need Straight Guy playing a 'Mo award.
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#13Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 8:59pmThen they're be like, 100 nominees in that category, Topher
Into the Woods, Beauty and the Beast, RENT, Mamma Mia!, Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, Evita (with Julia Murney), Hairspray (with Paul Vogt), Peter and the Starcatchers (with Christian Borle), Lion King, Altar Boyz, Legally Blonde (with Lauren Zackrin).
#14Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 9:07pm
Why were there no straight guys in gay black roles nominated?
I'm boycotting plastics.
And July.
Just because.
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#15Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 9:30pmbecause the other actors didnt deserve a nomination? ever think of that?
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#16Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 9:35pmWow, that was really racist of you to imply that only the black actors didn't deserve a nomination!!!
Mr Roxy
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#17Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 9:37pmWhat about black dwarfs?
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#18Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 9:40pmBiggest shutout of an entire race since Bombay Dreams.
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Wayman_Wong
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#19Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 10:20pm
To answer the original question, maybe that's just how the voting turned out. Or the nominators, as a whole, thought other performances stood out more in a competitive field. If you mean to imply something racist, how do you explain the nominations for African-Americans Montego Glover, Sahr Ngaujah and Lillias White in musicals? Or the nominations for Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson, David Alan Grier and Jon Michael Hill in plays? Plus, there are nominations for Bill T. Jones and Branford Marsalis.
Updated On: 5/17/10 at 10:20 PM
#20Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 10:33pm
I explain those nominations by saying they were OBVIOUSLY given out as mistakes by what is OBVIOUSLY a group of nominators who parade around town in white hoods and burning crosses.
OBVIOUSLY.
Jon
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#21Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/18/10 at 11:50amMayber they were afraid to monimate any more black actors because, as you have pointed out to us, too many black people in a theatre audience can cause a ruckus. They might start talking back!
#22Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/18/10 at 12:18pmAw, hell no. You did NOT just go there, girlfriend.
"You mean what was the best picture of the year or what did they pick as the best picture of the year?" - California Suite
#23Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/18/10 at 12:23pmI just know I'll look stupid, but... what does "racist" mean?
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#24Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/18/10 at 12:27pmI am shocked and appalled that males weren't considered when casting Annie. Females have played Peter Pan and Oliver and Tiny Tim. Why can't a male play Annie?
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