Posted on 03/25/2021 3:18:49 PM PDT by rickmichaels
A local Minnesota theater has cancelled a production of Roger & Hammerstein's Cinderella because its cast was 'too white'.
Chanhassen Dinner Theatres was scheduled to stage the show later this year before its artistic director stepped in to slam its lack of diversity.
'It was 98 percent white, ' the artistic director, Michael Brindisi, told the Pioneer Press on Wednesday after looking at who had been cast.
However, Chanhassen - located southwest of Minneapolis - has a population that is overwhelming white, and the racial demographics of the cast were not strikingly different from the city as a whole.
According to the most recent census, 92.5 percent of people in Chanhassen are white. Less than 3 percent of residents are Hispanic, while 1.1 percent are black.
No photos of the Cinderella cast were officially released before the show was scrapped.
In a statement released on Monday, the theater stated: 'After careful consideration and with our ongoing commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, we have made the decision to cancel our upcoming production.
'In addition to changing future programming, we are establishing new pre-production protocols. We will be inviting (and paying) BIPOC artists to analyze the production with our creative teams through a new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion lens... This conversation will happen before the design and casting process has begun.'
Chanhassen Dinner Theatres have hired a diversity consultant and pledged a commitment to 'identity-conscious casting and becoming a more intentionally anti-racist theater'.
Meanwhile, the organization is current[ly putting together a production of The Music Man and has a 'strong priority placed on casting BIPOC artists'.
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It looks like we got stuck in a time warp to 1930s Nanzi Germany and whites are the jews...
also applies to the cast of Snow White
Child abuse.
Well, they can’t do Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_Black_and_de_Sebben_Dwarfs
Well, we can be sure. The black stepsister was a bastard
Fine. Have Stacy Abrams play Cinderella.
The world’s first blackface Cinderella?
That is pathetic.
/shudder
That is some scary picture. The father and any other adults involved with this need to be charged.
Let’s put these words in their right order, Diversity, Inclusion, Equity. DIE.
It looks like we got stuck in a time warp to 1930s Nazi Germany and whites are the Jews..
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Jews were a minority in Nazi Germany; this is different because it is the minority persecuting the majority, who obediently rolls over and takes the beatings.
The people pushing this aren’t going to like how it plays out.
It’s Ok to be white.
The “father” who allowed that to be done to his son should be publicly beaten.
Then again turnabout is fair play. How about Conan O'Brien cast as Kunta Kinta in Alex Haley's Roots? Works for me.
Chanhassen Dinner Theatres management are either flaming racists, gutless cowards, or both.
A European folk tale might have a few white people in it.
LOL!
Their heads would explode.
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