Broadway, sort of
We went to see Newsies this week. Previous shows in the same series were Beauty and the Beast and The Wiz. No, Wizard of Oz, that's right. Anyway. I practically slept through them.
BB was just so very damn familiar in terms of sex roles. And I was about to say that "It was their time, but I still didn't like it" when I realized that no, it was not "their time". Not since the seventies at least has it been "their time".
Newsies doesn't even have that going for it. Twelve or thirteen newsies and not one girl, not one? And there was one black actor, and he was FABULOUS, and you know they just cast him to do some really stupendous jumps and otherwise stay in the background, thankyouverymuch. Because we all know that blacks were never newsies either.
Pfui on them and the horse they rode in on.
BB was just so very damn familiar in terms of sex roles. And I was about to say that "It was their time, but I still didn't like it" when I realized that no, it was not "their time". Not since the seventies at least has it been "their time".
Newsies doesn't even have that going for it. Twelve or thirteen newsies and not one girl, not one? And there was one black actor, and he was FABULOUS, and you know they just cast him to do some really stupendous jumps and otherwise stay in the background, thankyouverymuch. Because we all know that blacks were never newsies either.
Pfui on them and the horse they rode in on.