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Let the record show that The Wizard of Oz had an all-white cast.
Also, during the time in which the original story took place, the area of Harlem in which blacks lived was an all black area.
(FYI: The Wiz and The Wizard of Oz are two different story lines. But nevertheless)
Yes, but Wizard of Oz was during a segregated era. This is all about equal opportunity. If you are going to use the original as an argument, you can't then go on to say they're two diff story lines.
Mother Abbess was a black woman in the Austrian Abbey in the original, yet she was in the live version.
The original Broadway version was pretty raunchy - the updated version of Grease that came out after the movie was tamer, so maybe that will be what they follow?
Yeah, I saw the orginal version in Chicago. I mean the exact original straight from Broadway. I remember the elderly couple sitting next me friends and me. Before the show, they told us they were very exited have driven up all the way from some small town in Illinois (I forget which) for dinner and an real live show. During the first half, I could here them gasping at the raunchy parts.
They left their seats during intermission and never came back. Good thing because it got raunchier.
Let the record show that The Wizard of Oz had an all-white cast.
Right, why wouldn't the Wiz have an all black cast?
How many people sat and watched stuff like Seinfeld or Friends and never once thought, how do these people live in one of the most diverse cities in the world and rarely encounter any people of color?
Right, why wouldn't the Wiz have an all black cast?
How many people sat and watched stuff like Seinfeld or Friends and never once thought, how do these people live in one of the most diverse cities in the world and rarely encounter any people of color?
I thought it all the time.
Kenneth Branagh casts any race for his Shakespearean films, yet they weren't written for people of color (for the most part).
Yes, but Wizard of Oz was during a segregated era. This is all about equal opportunity. If you are going to use the original as an argument, you can't then go on to say they're two diff story lines.
Mother Abbess was a black woman in the Austrian Abbey in the original, yet she was in the live version.
It's only an issue when white folks are left out. How does it feel?
A ghetto version of "The Wizard of Oz"? No thanks. Leave the classics alone.
New Kids on the Block is a white version of the singing group New Edition. The manager that created NE thought he'd make an all white copycat and gathered some kids from the mean streets of Boston where he found the first group. Being that both groups were raised in the inner city, I wonder which one you'd label as ghetto?
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