next to normal back in NYC with a black Diana
next to normal back in NYC with a black Diana
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Posted: 10/19/12 at 4:32pm
http://musicallyhuman.org/next-to-normal/
Interesting. I'd like to see it. Excuse the confronting subject.
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Posted: 10/19/12 at 4:45pm
I am not familiar with Nicole Powell, but I am definitely interested in seeing this.
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Posted: 10/19/12 at 6:29pm
I have to ask what the point of this is.
Also it seems odd to me that they're using all those quotes attributed to the Broadway production. Seems a little misleading.
I saw Night of the Living Dead from the same company so I have mixed feelings about seeing one of my favorite musicals there.
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Posted: 10/19/12 at 6:36pm
I think the point is probably that the theatre wanted to do next to Normal.
I see non-Broadway productions use pull quotes like that all the time. I think it's generally understood those are quotes about the original production.
Updated On: 10/19/12 at 06:36 PM
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Posted: 10/19/12 at 6:41pmI saw referring to the point of a black Diana. I'm not totally against it but it seemed like this was originally billed as a black N2N so I'm curious as to why there is a need for such. And it seems interesting that they strayed from the original idea and only Diana is black.
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Posted: 10/19/12 at 6:43pm
“I have to ask what the point of this is.”
They liked her audition? It's a color-blind cast, so I don't think trying to make some giant statement.
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Posted: 10/19/12 at 6:45pmI hadn't heard of this before, so I don't know how it was billed beforehand.
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Posted: 10/19/12 at 6:47pm
"And next season, the same company is doing Next to Normal featuring a black cast. That's just what the doctor ordered."
Musto's Article
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Posted: 10/19/12 at 6:50pmPerhaps they couldn't find enough black actors and decided not to punish the actress they wanted for Diana. Or perhaps Musto got his facts wrong.
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Posted: 10/19/12 at 11:23pmI would love to see a next to normal starring Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis....
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Posted: 10/19/12 at 11:45pmIt takes place in some sort of dream America where black people have access to quality mental health care.
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Posted: 10/20/12 at 11:42am
Maybe successful upper-upper-middle-class black people like the n2n family, or the Cosbys, or the Proud Family- but you'll never see Precious (based on the character from the novel PUSH by Sapphire) getting psychopharmacology.
Don't know if it's more of an economic divide, a cultural stigma, or a racist denial of easy service, but it's a thing.
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Posted: 10/20/12 at 1:27pmSo no one is going to mention how cute the husband and doctor are?
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Posted: 10/21/12 at 8:58pm
So Namo, before I get upset, we're you serious about wondering about a "dream America" wherein Black people could get quality health care, or was that satire?
(and it's arguable that Diana received "quality" care at all)
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Posted: 10/21/12 at 10:49pmI think it was sort of a dual comment on both the fact that many predominantly black areas are poor and not likely to have quality mental care, as well as perhaps a more perceptive "conversation starting" topic about the stigma of mental health issues in the black community being rather different than in mainstream white America- particularly in the upper-middle-class white Jewish socioeconomic group that has long made up a hefty chunk of the backbone of the theatre scene.
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