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Post by theatre2023 on Feb 24, 2024 14:40:03 GMT
Are they perhaps taking color blind casting too far ?
The Notebook tells the story of husband & wife and starts with them in old age narrating how they met.
Younger teen version of themselves - white male / black female
Adult version of themselves - white male / black female
The narrators in senior citizen form are inexplicably black male / white female (!)
Just a tad confusing 😂
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Post by oxfordsimon on Feb 24, 2024 18:51:13 GMT
I must admit that internal consistency is something that I prefer in terms of casting.
I know there are those who say they can see beyond skin colour. But I am not sure I actually believe them.
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Post by mattnyc on Feb 24, 2024 21:57:05 GMT
When watching the show it’s actually not confusing. I don’t think they needed three pairs though, two would have been just fine.
As for the show itself, it’s alright. Nothing I’ll ever have a desire to see again. It’s beautiful to look at in parts and the cast IS all excellent with the material they’re given to work with.
I will say I’m positive this is gonna be a huge hit though with tourists.
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Post by theatre2023 on Feb 25, 2024 0:29:29 GMT
I never saw the movie - so it did take a while to clock that the casting director suffers from color blindness.
The show had most of the female audience in sobs of tears … but personally found the show to be excruciatingly boring at times. Yet another “paint by numbers” movie to stage attempt that adds very little to the world of theatre sadly. Instantly forgettable and certainly wouldn’t recommend it.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Feb 25, 2024 13:50:02 GMT
So i dont know the show but Im cool with the casting aporoach. If i want realism i watch tv or film. For me, theatre has the power to easily take you out of the realworld and thats why i love it.
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Post by mockturtle123 on Feb 25, 2024 14:48:34 GMT
I never saw the movie - so it did take a while to clock that the casting director suffers from color blindness. The show had most of the female audience in sobs of tears … but personally found the show to be excruciatingly boring at times. Yet another “paint by numbers” movie to stage attempt that adds very little to the world of theatre sadly. Instantly forgettable and certainly wouldn’t recommend it. Do you have any idea what that sounds like? "suffers from color blindness"? There's no suffering here. I don't think the casting makes sense, but no one is suffering from color blindness. No one is suffering by living in a more accepting, tolerant and open world. |
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Post by thebroadwayboy on Mar 15, 2024 6:15:29 GMT
ouch
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Post by invisiblegirl on Mar 15, 2024 6:26:24 GMT
I never saw the movie - so it did take a while to clock that the casting director suffers from color blindness. The show had most of the female audience in sobs of tears … but personally found the show to be excruciatingly boring at times. Yet another “paint by numbers” movie to stage attempt that adds very little to the world of theatre sadly. Instantly forgettable and certainly wouldn’t recommend it. Do you have any idea what that sounds like? "suffers from color blindness"? There's no suffering here. I don't think the casting makes sense, but no one is suffering from color blindness. No one is suffering by living in a more accepting, tolerant and open world. It is a strange choice though. They shifted the story from the 1940s to the 1960s (and out of the south) so an interracial relationship could be at least plausible… but then the show never acknowledges the reality of the younger Allies’ Blackness, which certainly would have been pertinent, then does the race swap thing for the older version of the couple. Choosing to make Noah and Allie an interracial couple could have added another layer of complication and depth to their story, but it seems they wanted to have it both ways, surface level inclusion without actually engaging with race. |
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