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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We need a play about Jackie Robinson with a white guy playing the lead.
And one about Malcom X using a white guy.
I’ll wait.
Even better: Mark Twain played by Kanye West. The least clever or witty person every.
How about Richard Simmons?
Vomit
Boy the comments show even many New York folks hate the whole Hamilton spectacle
White people are so sick
In Romeo and Juliette, Mr T could play Juliette and Elen Degeneres could play Romeo. We can’t get too stuck in those gender roles assigned by dead white men.
I think it would be kind of charming.
LOL, wait until they cast Chris Farley as MLK in the upcoming “MLK” film...
How about remaking Birth of a nation with all black klansmen, or Roots with all white slaves.
I remember watching a high school production of Les Miserables, with an Asian kid cast in the lead role. And the guy did a good job, and I understand that it’s just a high school performance, and I had no desire to deny the Asian kids in the school the chance to star on the stage if they so desired, and all that . . . but I must admit, it really did take me out of the story.
I strongly dislike the idea of casting real, historical characters as anything other than what they actually were. Alexander Hamilton was a white man, and he should be portrayed by no one else except for white men. Likewise, Martin Luther King was a black man, and he should be portrayed by no one else except for black men. And so on.
It won’t catch on. Paying audiences are largely white and getting the whites have had their fill of such PC garbage.
the LIBTARDS keep beating the RACIST DRUM....
and the minorities march along lockstep like lemmings...
obama holder and lynch are black racists ... stirring the violent side of the people who blame their own shortcomings on others... and use the race crutch...
In Africa there are children who speak English, and they learn Shakespeare. With a British accent.This is terrible, why?
Hamilton, Washington, Jefferson, Franklin - best known images are on $10, $1, $2, and $100 bills.IMHO everyone in America is clear that none of the framers of the Constitution were black. No matter how many of us may see/hear Hamilton.
Simmons has obamas walk down but his ears are too small
Re African, black and Boer children speak English with a Brit accent...WHERE? Most assuredly NOT in RSA, Zimbabe, Liberia, nor in Kenya. And Egypt is also in Africa and Egyptians of all races don't speak English with a Brit accent either.
Are you really this obtuse/thick, or just enjoy posting banal, inaccurate drivel? LOL
Trust me, the schools that these kids go to don't teach American history well and won't correct misconceptions!
ALL NOT GUILTY !! :)
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