When Color-Blind Casting Get Complicated - A black theatre fan argues that certain white roles shouldn't be played by actors of color
A black theatre fan argues that certain white roles shouldn't be played by actors of color---I've loved musical theatre as long as I can remember. When I was young, I would listen to my original cast recordings of Oklahoma and Candide and My Fair Lady over and over and over, and imagine myself as Curly McLain and Candide and Henry Higgins. But my fantasies were constrained by the understanding that I would never play…