Posted on 04/07/2025 6:21:46 PM PDT by dynachrome
After being told that it cannot make changes to the licensed script for a musical it plans to stage next week, The Grand theater in Ellsworth is making a last-ditch effort to add Black actors to the cast.
If it cannot find Black actors to play minor roles of two slaves in the musical, it will have to cancel the production, the opening of which has been delayed for a week, a theater official said.
But in Ellsworth and other rural parts of Maine, the population of which is more than 93 percent white, finding actors of different races to volunteer for small-town community theater productions is not an easy task.
The Grand is staging the musical “Big River,” an adaptation of Mark Twain’s classic novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” The prominent role of Jim, a runaway slave, is being played by a Black actor in The Grand’s production. But the theater initially was unable to get other Black actors to audition for the smaller roles of Alice and her daughter, who are slaves, said Nick Turner, The Grand’s executive director.
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What is Jim called in the book? It ain't n-word Jim.
Get Ted Danson.
Maybe they convince the Shreveport, LA police in the above thread to send em those two ghettobpotumus in the above post....LOL.
They should have chosen a different story, if the theater group is so nervous about what to do with no black actors.
Anyone who has read an unabridged version of Huck knows the N word is liberally sprinkled throughout the book.
That was just how common people spoke to each other back then. Later 19th, early 20th century.
I read some of Hemingway’s short stories recently, and same thing there. Average Americans were speaking this way, uninhibited, well into the early 70’s.
Time to break out the blackface again.............
Absolutely pathetic.
Can’t they use makeup and just act?
Some people just have to make life wearisome.
Justin Trudeau is out of work. I bet he is available.
or Fidelito, just across the St.Lawrence
-fJRoberts-
Find some actors who “identify” as black. That’s all it takes these days.
Lots of Skinnies imported into Portland.
It’s community theater. I would imagine that they’ll have a difficult time finding diverse actors even if they’re in a major city like Denver.
Y’all know this black slave stuff is tiresome!
I and my grand kids are tired of paying for crimes we
DID not commit.
We tire of the crimes Blacks disproportionately commit.
even to themselves!
Here is my solution,
23 hours per day in solitary. 1 hour of outside exercise
like walking in a cage. no prison gangs or friends.
you are alone on your own. Blacks will wither, and die.
That is pretty cheap compared to what society pays for
being non-racist.
93% white. I’ll bet Black Lives Matter signs abound where there are no actual black people.
Vermont is the same way.
whe there are two or more it’s ghettopotami. just fyi.
No they can’t use makeup. Even if they did not do full on blackface, it would be considered a crime against humanity to use white actors, and using makeup to try to make us think they are black.
Justin Trudeau’s calendar appears to be open.
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