Originally posted on fairyprincessdiaries:
The Fairy Princess did some “Activist-ing’, she did.
Normally, she writes about productions and they are generally in a different town or somewhere where to get involved in the physical aspects of protesting, she would have to jump a plane.
Sadly though, right here in New York City, the National Asian Artists Project, has decided to do an All Asian American production of Show Boat.
Yes, this Show Boat.
At this point, everyone knows which Show Boat we are talking about – the Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein classic, Show Boat, which deals with the divide between the Caucasian and African Americans Post- Civil War in the Deep South.
Show Boat is a show that, in TFP’s opinion, is not one that can be done by APIs with any sense of dignity or sense of history, or, well…sense.
In fact, if one is to do this show without…
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