| re: It's not color-blind casting, at least according to the actor | |
| Posted by: mikem 10:56 am EDT 05/18/24 | |
| In reply to: It's not color-blind casting, at least according to the actor - ADFeldman 03:34 pm EDT 05/17/24 | |
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| It's all well and good for Blankson-Wood to say that there were Black queer people in Berlin in 1930 who were artists, so why couldn't Cliff be one of them? But as student_rush pointed out earlier, Nazis like Ernst weren't entrusting Black queer people in Berlin in 1930 who were artists to smuggle for them. I haven't seen Cabaret yet, but if Blankson-Wood's approach reflects Rebecca Frecknall's, the piece may have some odd directorial choices. A similar issue came up with the recent LCT My Fair Lady, where Jordan Donica, who plays Freddy, basically said that there were Black people in England at the time, so why couldn't Freddy be Black? (The actress who played his mother was Black, so I believe that Freddy is intended to be Black in this production, which Donica seemed to confirm.) Yes, there were Black people in England at that time, and a handful of them were in the upper classes, but the few that are discussed were all women who were the daughters of a white Englishman or married one. For Eliza to be romanced by a Black man in that milieu would have been significant to the other characters in the show. |
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