'Oklahoma!' casting is PC reaction to Seattle's racist past | New To Seattle by William P. Barrett

Still New To Seattle, I attended the opening night of "Oklahoma!" at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle. Now theater criticism is really not my forte. But I was quite thrown by the injection without any context or meaning whatsoever of a bizarre racial yet color-blind element to the local production of this classic 1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein collaboration. I am referring to the casting of black actor Kyle Scatliffe …

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