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multi-cultural casting

Posted: 1/24/07 at 5:54pm

quick question:

a friend was telling me there is a rule/law/guideline that broadway shows have to be cast, with a percentage of the cast being non-caucasian.
Just wondering if there is any truth to this??

re: multi-cultural casting

Posted: 1/24/07 at 7:39pm

just look at the les mis cast.

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re: multi-cultural casting

Posted: 1/24/07 at 7:51pm

I highly doubt there is any ruling to this...look at the cast of The Phantom of the Opera, which is almost always 100% caucasian cast. I'm sure Equity intercedes when their is discrimination against those opf other races, but that's a
different situation.

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re: multi-cultural casting

Posted: 1/24/07 at 8:01pm

Wow. Thanks to those two posts I just realized I have been spelling caucasian wrong my entire life....

i spelled it right for the first time just now.

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re: multi-cultural casting

Posted: 1/25/07 at 1:06am

That is completely false. I should know the exact Equity rule, but I believe that Broadway productions are required to allow actors of any ethnicity to AUDITION at open calls regardless of their casting intentions, I could be wrong. But they are certainly not REQUIRED to cast a certain percentage of minorities in any given production.

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