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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looks like the slaves are gonna have to be white. Unless of course they’ll allow dark makeup.
How about Clinton? Trudeau?
I’d be happy with any of them.
Break out the shoe polish.
OK, you win the thread.
The so called arts... All they need to do is go to Lisbon Maine and grab a few Somalis.
What the hell has happened to make Maine so stoopid?
“...I would imagine that they’ll have a difficult time finding diverse actors...”
I’m sure the local Walmart has some black shoe polish...oh, wait....that’d be racist! /s
“...What the hell has happened to make Maine so stoopid?....”
Massive mports from MassHoleachusetts, New Yawwwwkkkkers and the beloved “constitution state” Connecticut that ain’t worth a shite. They brought all their crap lib politics with em and elected the crap that occupies the governor’s office (just one look at Janet Mills outta give ya a clue) , secretary of state and the DA....all idiots to the nth degee and most likely funded by George Porgy, puddin’ and pie.
Native Mainers utterly despise the nasty basstids....
The signs were everywhere.
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