I never quite understood why all the photos I've seen of this play included black actors. Now it is starting to make sense. I had not realized that casting call was for ONLY POC. What a crock.
I once saw Big River on Broadway. What an experience! But can you imagine if the actor playing the slave Jim had been white?
Right on the tourist from flyover land. They do the same exact thing in CA with Hollywood, Rose Parade and the rest.
For those in flyover country, most those who actually live in places like S. CA, they avoid places like Hollywood like the plague. They couldn’t give me a fully stocked complementary stretch limo to take me there. No joke.
Husband was not too impressed with the POC only cast. He said what if they had a play about Fredrick Douglas...played by a white guy. There would be an uproar.
The world has turned, now the white guy, the Christian, are the ones discriminated against. From the POC perspective, we deserve it due to past transgressions, however, we were not the people who transgressed, we are just the ones paying for it.