Boycott this racist production
Barely a white face in it, clearly those behind the production are racist.
shareStop the foolishness, stop trolling, this production has been around for over 40 years and has been cast with blacks.
shareMaybe, BUT, if you recall the Sound of Music LIVE cast a Black Mother Superior, and the boards were all a buzz with color blind casting. I just think it should be a two way street, don't you?
shareSomeone with tunnel vision really has no place using the term "two way street".
You make a big deal out of race, even though that's not the only thing that comes into casting a role. This production did a gender flop.
The Sound of Music made a choice not to stick to the intended bits. And it cast a great performer in a role.
This production ended up staying with the traditional route. Now how the hell do we know if it was cast with that intention or they instead ended up liking the leads they chose? And regardless why does it matter to you which way it happened?
People like this are troubling when they start acting immature about art. You need to be mature enough to accept when things like this happen and are allowed to exist as much as the things you do like.
As it seems to you you'd prefer everything be blind to restrictions and try on purpose to be as inclusive to every thing as possible. While you may delude yourself into thinking that's for the best, it's only swapping one prejudice for another. Historically and modernly anyone that insists art has to do things one way, is usually going to be described in words not very flattering.
Honestly, I have to say that casting Audra McDonald as The Mother Superior was distracting. All I could think about was that it in 1938 Austria, it would been highly improbable for a black woman to be the Mother Superior of a convent instead of her performance. Sorry, but there are times when "color blind" casting works, and times when it just distracts from the production itself. In the case of "The Wiz", it's a story about black people. It would make as much sense to cast non-blacks in these roles as it would be to cast a black woman as Scarlett O'Hara.
shareI responded to another comment in a more less direct way. But when I see posts like this I have to ask for some parameters.
Do you not get into much books/plays/movies that are historical fiction unless they research or cast everything accurately? As the more you learn, you should discover lots more examples of products that didn't do their homework than did.
Communities left for being too closeminded: Gamefaqs, Home Theater Forum, Toonzone
The problem comes in when the "inaccuracy" is so glaring that it distracts from the production/performance.
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