https://freerepublic.com/tag/michaelbrindisi/ en-us Thu, 25 Mar 2021 22:18:49 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3945230/posts A local Minnesota theater has cancelled a production of Roger & Hammerstein's Cinderella because its cast was 'too white'. Chanhassen Dinner Theatres was scheduled to stage the show later this year before its artistic director stepped in to slam its lack of diversity. 'It was 98 percent white, ' the artistic director, Michael Brindisi, told the Pioneer Press on Wednesday after looking at who had been cast. However, Chanhassen - located southwest of Minneapolis - has a population that is overwhelming white, and the racial demographics of the cast were not strikingly different from the city as a whole. According... Daily Mail https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3945230/posts#comment Thu, 25 Mar 2021 22:18:49 GMT