MN Dinner Theatre Cancels Cinderella Because “It’s Too White”

The lunacy continues!  Please understand that there are “all black musicals and plays” where the cast has to be black!  Can you even imagine the outrage if there was advertised “an all white cast,”  When are folks going to start standing up to the NBA for not being inclusive and for not having diversity quotas?  Last time we checked the NBA was made up of 74% black men!  Even though black men only comprise 7% of US population.  Where is the outrage!  Yet when MN puts on a play in a suburb where black actors most likely exist in tiny numbers, we have to cancel it for not enough blacks?  Lord have mercy!  The idiots are running things!

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A suburban Minneapolis theater company has cancelled a production of “Cinderella” because its cast was “too white.”

Chanhassen Dinner Theatres was scheduled to stage Roger & Hammerstein’s classic play later this year before its artistic director stepped in to criticise its lack of racial diversity, twincities.com reported.

“It was 98 percent white,” Michael Brindisi, the theater’s artistic director, told the Twin Cities Pioneer Press on Wednesday after looking at the actors who had been cast. “That doesn’t work with what we’re saying we’re going to do.”

Brindisi said he considered recasting but instead decided to “scrap this and start fresh with a clean slate.”

Chanhassen Dinner Theatres has hired a diversity consultant and pledged a commitment to “identity-conscious casting and becoming a more intentionally anti-racist theater,” it said in a statement.

“After careful consideration and with our ongoing commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, we have made the decision to cancel our upcoming production,” it states.

“In addition to changing future programming, we are establishing new pre-production protocols. We will be inviting and paying [Black, Indigenous, People of Color] artists to analyze the production with our creative teams through a new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion lens.”

However, finding people of color to fill future roles may prove difficult. Chanhassen which is located southwest of Minneapolis, has a population that is overwhelmingly white. According to the most recent census, 92.5 percent of people in Chanhassen are white. Less than 3 percent of residents are Hispanic, while 1.1 percent are black.

 https://tennesseestar.com/2021/03/29/minnesota-theater-cancels-cinderella-production-because-cast-was-too-white/