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  • Great Britain: Production of Show Boat is sunk after race row over 'blacked-up' actors

    10/23/2007 5:29:14 PM PDT · by Stoat · 39 replies · 687+ views
    The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | October 23, 2007
    Production of Show Boat is sunk after race row over 'blacked-up' actorsBy PAUL SIMMS - More by this author » Last updated at 22:49pm on 23rd October 2007  An amateur dramatics group has abandoned plans to stage the musical Show Boat with blacked-up actors after a public outcry.  Organisers had claimed that heavily made-up white actors would have to be used for the production set in America's Deep South because there were no ethnic minority players in the area. Scroll down for more...Actors in an amateur production of Show Boat will not be treading the boards after the musical...