| re: Seeing CABARET having seen the original and the film | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 11:01 am EDT 07/25/24 | |
| In reply to: re: Seeing CABARET having seen the original and the film - Thom915 11:08 pm EDT 07/24/24 | |
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| I have to say that, much as I am sensitive and wanting to be sensitive to all views on casting, I'm a little regretful that what we used to call "color blind casting" is not seen as such anymore. (On the other hand, I completely understand the idea of the visibility of the actor's race being part of the casting, instead of the idea of a black actor "passing" as white, so to speak, playing a "white" role.) I would love to be able to watch a production of Cabaret where Cliff was played by a black man, but we understood that Cliff the character was not black. For a while, that's how a lot of shows were being cast. And it still happens. But there have always been people that couldn't accept that kind of casting, and now there are a lot of people who feel that the ethnicity of the actor SHOULD play a part in casting (e.g. Gypsy with Audra). So even if I were fine with a black actor as Cliff, I'm not even sure I'm right to "assume" that Cliff himself in that case is not black. I am confused as well. |
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