Minnesota theater cancels production of
Cinderella because the cast is 'too white'
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Andrew Court
Original Article
Posted By: OhioNick,
3/26/2021 2:41:34 AM
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.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Highlander 3/26/2021 4:33:17 AM (No. 735430)
There’s always shinola if the prissy little director wants diversity. Maybe he can bus in some Somalis to fix the problem. There’s always a way.
18 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
mifla 3/26/2021 5:19:28 AM (No. 735438)
What color is your skin, Michael? Lead by example and resign.
27 people like this.
Micheal sounds like a bigot.
24 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
hershey 3/26/2021 7:12:48 AM (No. 735494)
Just reopen with all those Somali illegals as actors/actresses...problem solved...
11 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
privateer 3/26/2021 7:53:10 AM (No. 735523)
To quote Lionel Jefferson: if you follow that line of reasoning, 88% of the Harlem Globetrotters ought to be white!
25 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 3/26/2021 8:07:13 AM (No. 735539)
How is this going to work when they do The Sound of Music? I guess somehow the Captain, a Austrian, will be a black man and Maria a Guatemalan refugee. The children will be every ethic group imaginable, except white.
20 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
TexaTucky 3/26/2021 8:11:17 AM (No. 735542)
I've always thought the 1972 classic "Blacula" should be put to music and performed on stage.
7 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
petrichor 3/26/2021 8:43:27 AM (No. 735581)
I, for one, think that there should be more Bohemian actors in the cinema.
5 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
udanja99 3/26/2021 8:44:25 AM (No. 735583)
So, I guess Snow White is a no brainer.
20 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Kate318 3/26/2021 9:10:15 AM (No. 735609)
I’m not at all surprised by a decision based on quotas, in the far-left theatre business. It happens all the time. But, the time for an Artistic Director to make this decision is BEFORE the play is cast. That it was made this late in the game, tells me that this AD is more than your run-of-the-mill theatre moron; he’s a special breed.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Goose 3/26/2021 9:21:36 AM (No. 735616)
I'playing the Japanese Navy are Blackm waiting for the remake of "Pearl Harbor" with 20% of the Japanese sailors are played by Black actors. Banzai!
5 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Goose 3/26/2021 9:28:16 AM (No. 735619)
#6. Sound of Music was performed by the little theatre group at an Army post in Germany around 1974. The U-boat skipper who came to see von Trapp to convince him serve with the German Navy was played by a Black actor with an awful German accent.
3 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 3/26/2021 9:40:55 AM (No. 735627)
Self hatred due to ones race getting you down? Do us all a favor and delete yourself from the gene pool. You will solve two problems with one decision.
7 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
David Key 3/26/2021 10:33:10 AM (No. 735669)
Hmm have they put on The WIZ? I'm just asking for a friend. If they have then they are hypocrites since it is an all black cast.
4 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
Pegmo 3/26/2021 11:03:53 AM (No. 735701)
last time I looked, minnesota was about 85% white.....gonna have to import some actors if you don't like pulling from the local pool.
3 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 3/26/2021 11:08:19 AM (No. 735710)
IMO, that was a feature, not a problem.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
cThree 3/26/2021 11:45:35 AM (No. 735758)
Nah, the reason it was canceled is that Michael Brindisi (who looks like Michael Moore) and his buds are just too stupid to mount a classic American musical production.
3 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 3/26/2021 11:45:52 AM (No. 735759)
Just fire the director. A non-essential worker if there ever was one.
There are many many out of work theater directors right now. Should be no problem finding a replacement.
0 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
udanja99 3/26/2021 12:30:42 PM (No. 735813)
I posted earlier about Snow White but I just saw a poster in a store window that the local theater will be putting on the play week after next. I wonder how long it will take before the event is cancelled.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 3/26/2021 12:32:47 PM (No. 735817)
Let's see.....if someone tried to close a play "because it is too blacK" would that be OK?
No that would be RACIST.
This is RACIST, without the slightest doubt.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Luandir 3/26/2021 4:08:09 PM (No. 736002)
I eagerly await reports on the box-office receipts from a new "woke" version.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
danu 3/26/2021 4:52:41 PM (No. 736035)
MN: step. away. from. the. crack pipe!
You're destroying the human genome.
0 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 3/27/2021 1:23:02 AM (No. 736362)
Too white for Minnesota - makes sense.
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