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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So, this was Cinderella. What if it was Snow White? Do they still need to measure racial diversity among the performers and change the name to Snow Race Diversity?
Where did you find that picture ?
When I was little I was tanned by the hot High Plains sun. So my mom put me and my brother in a tub for a bath in the back yard.
As she had no lye soap, SO she used some laundry soap. “AJAX LAUNDRY DETERGENT! Stronger than Dirt!”
Suddenly out of the sage brush burst a white Knight on a White Horse carrying a White Lance! He zapped us right there and since that time I have been WHITER THAN WHITE!
https://www.theretrosite.com/ajax-white-knight/
Your grammar is atrocious and your sorrow unwarranted, since you personally had NOTHING to do with anything slavery related.
Learn some lessons in proportionality and get back to me. Meanwhile, enjoy your self-induced idiocy.
Surprisingly, no talk about replacing it with Cinderfella.
I just hope they haven’t had to insert an Asian Brian May for the Queen Tribute I’m going to Saturday; the hair just wouldn’t look right.
I’ll be tickled when Minnesotastan gets black snow!
The show should have an All Black Cast. Like TV Commercials—needs all blacks in acting rolls—save for evil bad guys (evil Queen and her henchmen—they Must be Whites). That would fix it. Maybe congress should pass a law—Only Black people in TV commercial and all TV shows. No whites permitted.
It’s just going to get worse.
When they tore down the statues in a lot of cities last year and basically no one there stood up to stop it, not even some ragtag group of wackos, I knew then that people wouldn’t resist until they individually were being hauled away to camps. And at that point it’s too late. A bunch of keyboard warriors against people who really believe in their cause is not going to be much of a battle.
How about Coal Black and the Seben Dwarfs.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6b/1943-wb-coal-black-title-card.jpg
Fifty five years ago the TV producers would take two separate TV shows and blend them together, then release them as a movie overseas.
How about they do this with Coal Black and Cinderella.
They still have dinner theaters?
nuts
This is the modern incarnation of self-flagellating Christians.
May we assume that the theater also has no plans to book the Alvin Ailey Dancers due to lack of diversity?
I’ve seen them, and they were fabulous. I’m white, but I wasn’t mad at their “lack of diversity.” Such a thing never even occurred to me. Still doesn’t. I just enjoyed the show. What a concept, eh?
Maybe not even then.
ff
That’s exactly where we are.
My only question is when do the trains start rolling?
Apparently the Zeta Male Eunuch and his son in that photo are worthy volunteers to go first.
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