multi-cultural casting
multi-cultural casting
Nath
Stand-by Joined: 7/3/05
#1multi-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??
Zeitoujo
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/3/06
#2re: multi-cultural casting
Posted: 1/24/07 at 7:39pmjust look at the les mis cast.
ThankstoPhantom
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/05
#2re: 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.
Night Life Love
Understudy Joined: 11/24/05
#3re: 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.
sidjones09
Leading Actor Joined: 1/4/07
#4re: multi-cultural casting
Posted: 1/25/07 at 1:06amThat 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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