My high school cast our one black student (there may have been five in the school, actually) as Tevye in Fiddler. Douggie was great and many agreed Black Tevye would be a great name for a metal band.
Saffron: You just had a better hand of cards this time. Mal: It ain't a hand of cards. It's called a life.
'Trash'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Trudy Booth - Jun 17, 2020 3:32:06 am PDT #22466 of 30019
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Jessica - Jun 17, 2020 3:56:05 am PDT #22467 of 30019
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Except they cast the black kid as The Wolf! Really! In an all white school, because basically the county I grew up in was all white. . All the kids are white except him.
Unfortunately I think I can beat that story with the time I was in an almost all-white production of Once On This Island (with a private childrens' theater company, not my school). The lone biracial actor was cast as Papa Ge (Demon of Death).
Calli - Jun 17, 2020 4:15:20 am PDT #22468 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
She just sent me his performance (they had opening night, but not others) from Into the Woods, which was great. Except they cast the black kid as The Wolf!
Yeah, that's a bit . . . iffy. If he wanted it, great. The wolf and the witch are my favorite roles in that musical. I haven't seen it live. If they could have the same actor as the wolf and one of the princes, that would be even better.
Laura - Jun 17, 2020 5:00:17 am PDT #22469 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
My nephew's middle school did a production of Annie in his 99+% white school and the orphanage matron as a black girl (I suspect because she was ahead of the other girls in physical maturity) and Daddy Warbucks was Hispanic. He also had a great voice. It was fun for a tiny Adirondacks school production. It seemed fairly color blind with the lead role clearly picked for her voice too.
msbelle - Jun 17, 2020 5:12:36 am PDT #22470 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I am not feeling this whole "work" thing today.
Electrician was supposed to get here at 8. Then contractor, who is already here at 8, says it will be more like 9 -9:30. Still waiting.
ION - this project ate all the money I had kept out from the sale of the Texas house plus some. I've got bills coming due and for the first time in months I am sweating out my paycheck getting in. Time to get back on that budget budget.
Jesse - Jun 17, 2020 5:30:07 am PDT #22471 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I am not feeling this whole "work" thing today.
SAME. And I have hours free in which to catch up with email or whatever. And yet? No interest.
Jessica - Jun 17, 2020 5:44:55 am PDT #22472 of 30019
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I haven't slept well in like a week and today it's all catching up with me. I just want to inflate the air chair and lie out in the sun all day.
-t - Jun 17, 2020 6:04:39 am PDT #22473 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I am not feeling this whole "work" thing today.
Hard same! I stopped working yesterday after 8 hours even though I had lots still to be done and it did not get done by elves overnight, dammit. So disapppointed.
Sorry about the budget woes, msbelle. Houses and their expenses, man, that does not seem like how it should go.
Toddson - Jun 17, 2020 6:12:19 am PDT #22474 of 30019
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
And, I found this amusing. Love John Cleese (I've seen a couple of places in town where sidewalks have been declared to be under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Silly Walks ... one had chalk indicating the kind of silly walk to use in specific sections).
msbelle - Jun 17, 2020 6:19:25 am PDT #22475 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I have had not great dreams two night in a row, well really three I guess. I need to get off devices earlier and read my nice rom-com book before bed.
Still no electrician.
I did a work thing, I think this means I get to do a house thing.