Posted on 11/24/2016 7:47:27 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Michelle Obama's bold exclamation that her husband was going to "change our traditions, our history," is perhaps what helped the Broadway musical Hamilton ring such happy notes into the ears of audiences and critics alike. I mean, does it really matter that in real life Aaron Burr wasn't dark-skinned, or that Alexander Hamilton wasn't Puerto Rican, or that other "old white guys" weren't really white?
And now, with the musical's tremendous success, what if the trend to play against type and to turn history and truth on its ear were to continue?
Three ideas are being offered here (and perhaps American Thinker readers can conjure up others) that could provide Broadway with a huge payday if these shows ever made it to the Great White Way:
* Jefferson 300: Imagine Thomas Jefferson and other Founding Fathers portrayed by actors 300 pounds or more (and the kicker: Ben Franklin is played by a short, skinny, black guy).
* The Color Purple (Sort of): Hopi, Iroquois, Cheyenne, and other Native Americans help open our eyes to the plight of "people of color" like no African-American cast ever could.
* Affirmative Action -- The Musical: Featuring an all-white cast.
Well, that's a start. And within five years we will probably be graced with a boffo new musical based on the man (the legend?) who saved America from George W. Bush: Obama -- Yes He Did!
I just hope the producers will be bold enough to cast Rachel Dolezal in the title role.
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The Ancient One was Tibetan in the comics, but Marvel Movies can’t afford to piss of China. So we get a British woman instead.
I am planning a Malcom X show with a casting call excluding minorities. The songs will be a mesh of country-western and show tunes.
How about an all-black Show Boat, where the singer is part-white and is kicked off the boat?
-PJ
I think that’s a reasoned argument. Thanks.
Bump
Albert Einstein played by Kanye West.
How about roots with an all white cast in black face?
They really killed two birds with one stone.
It’s the lifestyles of the perpetually aggrieved and entitled.
They urge us to be more diverse. But when we try to keep them happy, they accuse us of “cultural appropriation”.
There’s no pleasing those loons.
I’ve decided the best thing is to just ignore them and forge ahead with righting the country, with Trump leading the way.
Aaron Burr-utha
...Ok lets do a remake of Shake Zulu but with an all Asian cast....
Zulu, the movie, with Michael Caine as the white Ne’er do well. Lots of Victoria Crosses awarded.
But I do get your drift.
Stop being so accepting of cultural corruption!
And this makes a LOT of sense right now, because they have revived that musical, a short while ago and the guy playing Eubie Blake, was that POS......BRANDON VICTOR DIXON!
Gilbert Gottfried playing Moms Mabley in her autobiography.
Personally, I don’t mind having minorities playing traditional “white” roles or white historical characters. Sometimes it adds an interesting twist on a story. But, as always, the material has to be good and original. Simply putting a black guy in a white role with bad writing isn’t going to make the story better.
If anyone could afford to piss of China, Marvel can. You take out the $100 million Dr. Strange earned in China and it still earned $479 million to date on a $165 million production budget.
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