| re: New ‘Richard III’ Raises an Old Question: Who Should Wear the Crown? | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 03:52 am EDT 05/24/24 | |
| In reply to: re: New ‘Richard III’ Raises an Old Question: Who Should Wear the Crown? - Singapore/Fling 07:24 pm EDT 05/23/24 | |
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| I thought he was just responding to this statement: "Asian characters didn't exist on stage in Western pop culture until more recently." I can name at least 12 Broadway productions between the 1920s and 1950s with Asian characters. Some had only one, some had a few, and some had quite a number. Sometimes they were cast with white actors, but perhaps more often than you might expect, they were cast with Asian actors. And there was one Broadway production in the early 1930s that apparently had at least 45 Asian actors in the cast. It's hard to be sure because no complete cast list seems to have ever been published except in the playbill (or perhaps if the script was ever published), but one review said that at least half of the cast of 91 was Asian. And in the cast lists we do have, all the Asian characters (more than 20) were played by actors with names that suggest the actors were Asian. Btw, one show mentioned by Chromolume doesn't count: Yunioshi was not a character in the musical version of Breakfast at Tiffanys. |
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