tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post6072064806231653148..comments2024-01-07T06:59:04.212-05:00Comments on The Playgoer: Minstrelsy in the US, now and thenPlaygoerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02994724588504353485noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post-54778418643209154592010-09-17T00:43:11.748-04:002010-09-17T00:43:11.748-04:00This play is genius! Kander and Ebb at their best....This play is genius! Kander and Ebb at their best.It is a horrible, true story. All the facts cannot be told in 1hr 45min, educate yourself on the famous law case.It points straight to the bigots of the world..Visit the Scottsboro Boys Museum in Scottsboro, Alabama a wonderful tribute of books and other collectibles from the case.The boys are alive again, thanks to these two Broadway legends! The offBroadway play and museum opened about the same time not knowing about each other! Divine intervention!Check it out online and donate to keep their memories alive!They were just boys...the play does not mention Judge Horton who was a hero in that awful time but his memory lives on also.Go see this wonderful play with lots of talented actors. Their singing and dancing is incredible! Tonys all around! I cried and laughed, Kander, Ebb, Stroman, and Thompson are to be highly commended for putting something like this together! WOW!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post-26531424752376844432010-09-12T22:04:03.177-04:002010-09-12T22:04:03.177-04:00I respectfully disagree with you about Scottsboro ...I respectfully disagree with you about Scottsboro Boys, which I just saw a week ago in its current pre-Broadway run in Minneapolis. I found the show's use of minstrelsy incredibly effective, at once moving and haunting. You see the white Interlocuter's power producing the caricatures, which are never complete...the play ends with these men escaping their caricatures, when out of sheer disgust they wipe off their makeup and refuse the Interlocuter's demands. We feel that the events we have just seen have been the last straw--and are rewarded with the Rosa Parks ending (one of those rewarding moments in the theatre where you feel the audience gasp in realization).<br /><br />Though, perhaps the production has changed since its Off-Broadway run?circleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11282859381204481009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post-775317325558291712010-08-19T17:20:53.525-04:002010-08-19T17:20:53.525-04:00I wonder if anyone's documented the slaveship ...I wonder if anyone's documented the slaveship reenactments at least one black group did in the 1980s....cgeyenoreply@blogger.com