Posted on 10/03/2018 4:04:48 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
Kent State University has cancelled its fall musical production of “West Side Story” following complaints that too many white students landed lead roles.
Bridgett Martinez, a musical theatre major who is of Puerto Rican descent, tried out for her “dream role” of Maria, but she said “it all just got screwed up” when “it was given to a white female,” KentWired.com reported.
Martinez was instead cast as her understudy, and the other three leads that portrayed Latino characters were given to non-Latino students.
The outrage to the casting led to a September schoolwide town hall meeting, in which Eric van Baars, Kent State’s School of Theatre and Dance director, decided to cancel the show as a substitute for recasting, and replaced it with a production of “Children of Eden,” a musical which he believes will regroup the divided school.
“The cancellation of West Side Story was in response to our community members’ voices and the national dialogue regarding the desire for authenticity on our stages,” van Baars told Fox News. “To be current and culturally engaged, the School of Theatre and Dance supports the progression of conscious casting in the American theatre today.”
Van Baars announced the move in a schoolwide email, writing “while not all will agree with this choice, I hope most everyone in the school supports a fresh start on the process.” He added that all the actors cast in West Side Story will also be in Children of Eden.
Students pointed, not to talent, but rather diversity and inclusion as their main focus.
“Something we would like to continue to push for is have a person of color in that room all the time – auditions, callbacks, cast lists being made – because we should have someone on our side in that room,” Martinez told KentWired.com.
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They should perform pogy and Bess instead.
Guess they forgot about Natalie Wood.
Whenever I hear Kent State, all I can think of is deaths of the students killed by National Guard.
I’m working on it.
puerto ricans are caucasian, unless theyre afro puerto ricans or mixed with afro puerto ricans.
Unless we are now stating Iberians are not white, shall we add italians, southern french and greeks to the non-white category as well?
It’s so humorous as I know Greeks in Greece, who are the same color as many medium toned afro americans, except in the summer... when they’re darker.
Why would anybody send their kids to universities?
"There's battle lines being drawn...."
Is it possible that your audition for the part sucked?
Fox Leftist News pushes the Nasty Vindictive PR non talent is a victim angle .
Murdoch’s left wing kids are dragging this network down real quick.
>>They should perform pogy and Bess instead.<<
“Song of the South.”
(dang — I think *SOMEONE* should have the stones to make a stage play from that!!! Maybe I will!)
“Of the three Latinx leading roles, none were given to Latinx students. Several white students were cast in Latinx supporting roles, and some Latinx students who auditioned were not given any role in the show, even though white students were cast in ensemble roles.”
What is Latinx? Is this a new word?
I think so ... I vaguely remember reading about it some time ago here on FR.
Latinx is the generic group identification of what used to be called "Latino" or "Hispanics". Somewhere along the way, females .. Latinas .. took offense to being referred to generically as "Latino" because, to them, that was the masculine form for someone with a Latin-American background. So, now, if referring to females, it's "Latina"; to males, "Latino"; and to the group, generically, it's become "Latinx".
If someone else can explain that better than I can, please do so. I didn't realize how difficult that would be to write out ...
Do you think it might be like Spandex, but made in Puerto Rico?
This is TOTALLY RACISM by the university.
Give Obama's buddy Richard Branson a call.
Why didn’t they just re-cast it?
and “Annie”
and “Ralph Cramden”
and ...oh never mind.
Are the Italians complaining as well?
Diverse or Nuffin
Out damn whitey ...Out!
University cancels West Side Story production after white students landed lead roles
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Terrible headline by the increasingly terrible Fox.
The roles were landed by non-Hispanics.
The idea that Hispanics and Asians are non-White is liberal propaganda.
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