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Whites need not apply for ‘Hamilton’ open audition (March 2016)
NYPost ^ | March 30, 2016 | Lia Eustachewich

Posted on 11/19/2016 9:57:39 PM PST by aquila48

Open auditions are being held for the hottest show on Broadway — but whites need not apply.

Already the hottest ticket in town, rap-based musical “Hamilton” put out a casting call, seeking “NON-WHITE men and women” to audition for its Broadway run and touring companies.

Producers are also looking for actors “ages 20s to 30s” who can sing and rap — but “no prior theater experience necessary,” the ad says.

The seemingly prejudicial race and age poster flies in the face of the culturally diverse cast that has helped “Hamilton” surge to success and garner stellar reviews.

The modern musical chronicles America’s founding fathers like Aaron Burr and George Washington — played by actors who are black and Latino. The show’s writer Lin-Manuel Miranda, who is Puerto Rican, plays the title role of Alexander Hamilton.

In a statement, “Hamilton” said its producers “regret the confusion that’s arisen from the recent posting” but defended the verbiage.

“It is essential to the storytelling of ‘Hamilton’ that the principal roles — which were written for non-white characters (excepting King George) — be performed by non-white actors,” the statement said.

“This adheres to the accepted practice that certain characteristics in certain roles constitute a ‘bona fide occupational qualification’ that is legal.”

It also noted other shows like “The Color Purple,” “Porgy & Bess” and “Matilda” that call for “race, ethnicity or age specific casting” — but agreed to tweak the ad.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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To: dp0622
Re opera....stick to the old chestnuts....CARMEN, AIDA, MADAMA BUTTERFLY, LA BOHEME, THE MAGIC FLUTE ( which is really an operetta, but is now considered an opera and I don't know why ), and TURANDOT ( you'll LOVE it! ); you can't go wrong with any of those, unless someone decides to "modernize" them or some such idiocy. :-)

Personally, I LOVE Wagner, but he's awfully heave, the RING CYCLE is too damned long for most people, and I HATE THE FLYING DUTCHMAN. :-)

Verdi and Pucini are always good picks. :-)

Re THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA....see the silent ( Lon Channey stars ) and the several talkie remakes on TCM. I'll try to remember to let you know when they are on.

21 posted on 11/19/2016 10:45:25 PM PST by nopardons
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To: aquila48

I went to a rally and met Mike Pence and he seems like an amazing guy.

However, why he would waste his money going to see this trash is beyond me.


22 posted on 11/19/2016 10:46:47 PM PST by bakeneko
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To: doug from upland

BRAVO, doug; I remember when you first wrote that! It’s still spot on and funny! :-)


23 posted on 11/19/2016 10:49:28 PM PST by nopardons
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To: bakeneko
I wonder HOW he even got tickets for it.

But like you, I also wonder WHY he even wanted to go see that POS stinker to begin with.

24 posted on 11/19/2016 10:50:52 PM PST by nopardons
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To: aquila48

The supply of white idiots (and the audience is over 90 percent white) willing to travel to NYC and pay almost a thousand bucks a seat to see a bunch of racists perform an absurd adaptation of the life of Alexander Hamilton is NOT limitless.

2017 will NOT be a good year for these chumps.


25 posted on 11/19/2016 10:51:45 PM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: aquila48

It’s called “Reverse Racism”, by blacks, but in their world, it is just a normal practice.

Hypocrisy knows no limits!


26 posted on 11/19/2016 11:01:19 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: aquila48

Mind numbing hypocrisy from the left on display once again.


27 posted on 11/19/2016 11:10:51 PM PST by fireman15 (The USA will be toast if the Democrats are able to take the Presidency in 2016)
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To: nopardons

#21. We have an afficianodo of Opera here. Great. My late mother would have loved to have corresponded with you. She and my father would go to NY once a year as a wedding anniversary treat to see the great opera and stage shows.

And when she was young she either saw Caruso and the other greats of the 30’s and 40’s, or collected their records including Red Dog Victor albums.

I was raised on D’Orly Cart light operas with Martin Green - Mikado, HMS Pinafore, Pirates of Penzance etc. Even got Green’s autograph on a playbill. But I loved Bizet’s “Waltz of the Toreadors” and “La Habenera”.

My wife likes classical music and played it in Germany.

One of the last great stage shows I saw (gift tickets, couldn’t afford them back then), was “1776”. I’d like to see that brought back to the big stage. It was patriotic and entertaining at the same time.

America has been blessed with the greatest and most diverse musical entertainment of all time, from operas and stage shows/movies such as “The Producers”, Rock & Roll, Jazz, Bluegrass, Country and Western, to folk and cowboy tunes.

The Politically Correct liberals and Leftists want to destroy our national heritage. It is up to us to prevent this “Cultural Genocide”.

Freepers can do that just by commenting on this issue because it educates and enlightens its readers, as well as writing about it in other media formats when the attack is on.

This is our time to smash the Left. Let’s do it with gusto and knowledge.


28 posted on 11/19/2016 11:17:36 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: FreeReign

I don’t see why Obama couldn’t be played by a white guy. After all, Obama is a half Arab portraying a half black man.


29 posted on 11/19/2016 11:27:23 PM PST by Stepan12 (go)
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To: aquila48

I guess then Whites Need Not Buy Tickets.


30 posted on 11/19/2016 11:36:17 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
Oh I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited, I hug you ! :-)

I was raised on opera AND G&S ! My parents did G&S semi-professionally and from the womb,onwards, I attended rehearsals and shows. My parents' troop did the FIRST complete G&S operetta ( The Mikado ), on American T.V., on NBC, in the summer of '49.

When the D'Oyly Carte Savoyards came to America, after WW II ended, I was taken to see ALL of their performances and we had a box. Martin Green asked one of the American caste ( who was a fill in and someone from our troop ) who that child was, in the box, mouthing every word. My "Uncle" Buddy told him it was ME and I got to go back stage and meet the late GREAT, best KoKo EVER, Martin Green! :-)

I have ALWAYS been a somewhat obsessed G&S fanatic, know all of the operettas by heart...including every single hand movement and bit. :-)

Anytime you care to talk about this, let me know/drop me some FRmail! :-)

In '85, during one of our trips to England, we went to visit Gilbert's home, Grim's Dyke and I stood by the wee river where he drowned and cried. Schwenck is my favorite and always has been; I adore the man.

Ummmmmmmmmmmm....Caruso was somewhat before your parents' time. My great Aunt was his special private secretary ( she was in charge of picking out and sending Christmas and birthday cards and other such bumff for him ) in the teens. Caruso DIED in 1921.

Tibaldi lived a floor or two up from my parents' apartment, in the '60s and if she was practicing, one could hear her as though she was right next to you, in the powder room. It was VERY disconcerting; to say the least. :-(

Absolutely LOVE 1776 and the movie is also very good. Yes, it should be revived; with an ALL WHITE cast, of course! :-)

As to the resat of your post, I concur and have done my part, raising the kiddo and now the grand, to know and appreciate our culture. :-)

31 posted on 11/19/2016 11:48:43 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

You’re right about Caruso. My mother was born in 1992 but I know she saw Richard Tucker and Robert Merrill, among many other greats.

Rosa Ponselle was one of her acquaintances (my mother was a key member of the citizens support group for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the Lyric Theater (our second home away from home - Heard Andre Watts, Arthur Rubenstein and Van Clyburn there).

My mother was also a semi-professional opera singer (studied under Frank Bibb) and sang in choirs in Baltimore for over 40 years (church and synagogues - under Hugo Weiskall). She was also on the Mayor’s Advisory Council for the Arts and Culture.

Her borther, my uncle, was an internationally known art collector and critic (Picasso, Klee, Kandinsky, Arp, Still, etc, and State Department host for international cultural figures who came to DC and Baltimore). Jackson Pollack was one of his friends.

We hosted the fist public reception for BSO newly appointed conductor Commissioni in our house. I got to walk him in.

Those were the good old days when you got one education in school and another in your home.

Being Jewish we had books, hundreds, if not thousands of them, plus records. We were truly the “people of the books”.

Education is a terrible thing to waste!

“Enjoy! Enjoy!” - Leo Rosten or Harry Golden


32 posted on 11/20/2016 12:22:23 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: aquila48

PHUCKING NONSENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!


33 posted on 11/20/2016 12:48:14 AM PST by Stayfree (FlushHillary.com says "NEVER HILLARY", "NEVER HILLARY", "NEVER HILLARY")
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
I think you have a typo; it's doubtful that your mother was born in 1992, from what you have previously posted. :-)

Absolutely LOVE Tucker and Merril! :-)

My maternal grandfather was a super, in his spare time, for fun, when he was a young man and knew ALL of the greats of that time.

I grew up with LIVE FROM THE MET on the radio, on the weekends, so I still know most of the words to the GREATS and what the story lines are.

Like you, I grew up in a family of readers and was surrounded by lots of books. My grandmother would Bodlerize the great books as she read them to me, when I was bitty; Shakespeare too.

My parents both also painted and my father was an expert re ART; especially the pointillists and Dali. He would deliver lectures to me, when we were at a museum. When the Huntington Hartford had a Dali exhibit, in the mid '60s, daddy was at it and he drew a crowd that followed us around to hear him. LOL

Oh yes...one got an education at school, but a better one at home! It sounds as though we had somewhat similar childhoods. :-)

My grandmother was a child prodigy concert pianist, so classical music was like mother's milk to me too.

It's truly wonderful to meet someone, here, who "gets it". We might be a bit "strange" ( to others and the way they were raised ), but I'm glad that I had what I did and I can tell that you are on the same page. :-)

I LOVE your family story; it's MARVELOUS!

34 posted on 11/20/2016 1:00:26 AM PST by nopardons
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
Oh...and what does being Jewish have to do with it?

We aren't Jewish, but we have much in common.

35 posted on 11/20/2016 1:01:41 AM PST by nopardons
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To: aquila48

how inclusive of them.


36 posted on 11/20/2016 1:35:32 AM PST by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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To: aquila48

The progressive inclusive book burning liberals are a joy


37 posted on 11/20/2016 2:42:16 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: aquila48

Whites need not pay those outrageous ticket prices. If they had any sense.


38 posted on 11/20/2016 3:00:01 AM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: ari-freedom
Imagine a show about Obama played by a white guy.

Oh, a reality show.
39 posted on 11/20/2016 3:01:04 AM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: aquila48

Porgy and Bess with an all white cast? You would never hear the end of it.
The shame of it is that the movie with the cast including Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis jr Brock Peters etc was simply wonderful.


40 posted on 11/20/2016 4:13:50 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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