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History That Doesn't Suck
"white theater" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"How powerful is Cox Internet? So powerful that one day your daughter will be able to simulate a soccer match against some of the world's best players right from your backyard. Get gig speeds powered by fiber from Cox. It's internet built for tomorrow, today. Internet delivered through Cox's hybrid fiber coax network. Speeds vary and are not guaranteed. Cox terms and other restrictions apply. This episode contains instances of race -based violence and murder. Listener discretion is advised. History That Doesn't Suck is a bi -weekly podcast delivering a legit, seriously researched, hard -hitting survey of American history through entertaining stories. If you'd like to support We're at the corner of 57th and 7th in Midtown, New York City, where a seemingly endless throng is descending upon the city's unparalleled cathedral of music, Carnegie Hall. The wealthier are arriving in traditional horse -drawn carriages or those new gas -powered taxi cabs. Others rode the less than a decade old but quickly expanding subway or simply walked. But however they came, these New Yorkers, black and white, are about to experience a night of entertainment unlike any the nation has ever seen. Tonight, 300 black musicians, either a solo act or in a group, are performing in a single concert. But before we enter this theater, a quick aside. Let's remember that we're in the era of Jim Crow and even here in the north, segregation can exist. In fact, black and white theater goers typically sit as two separate groups. Not tonight, though. This concert will have no color barrier as black artists perform, to quote historian Stephen Harris, their own music in the most famous white -owned, white -run theater in the country and before a mixed audience. More than that, the proceeds will benefit the city's just established music school settlement for colored people. A historic night indeed then, provided all goes well. And will it? The music school's white, violin virtuoso founder, David Maness, who believes that music is humanity's universal language and the key to healing the nation's racial divides, cautiously hopes so. But not all agree. Another brilliant violinist, a black composer named Will Marion Cook, fears that white attendees won't enjoy what they hear tonight. He knows that many white Americans consider black music to be unsophisticated, vulgar even. He worries that this concert will fail and in doing so, quote, set the Negro race back 50 years, close quote. Yikes. The stakes are high then, and perhaps no one feels that more so than one of the few who helped organize this concert and is key to the actual performance. The president of the African -American Harlem -based music organization, the Clef Club, and the conductor of its namesake Orchestra, the one and only James Reese Europe. And with that background, let's get back to this concert. James Reese Europe, or Big Jim, as the six -foot tall, athletic -built, and well -known musician is typically called, is pressing his way through the streets outside the five -story, reddish and brown brick Carnegie Hall. Sales were flagging just yesterday, but thanks to an article in the Evening Journal, a thousand people are out here now, clamoring for tickets to this sold -out concert. In many ways, his sold -out concert. Assuming he can get inside, that is. It's turning into a madhouse in the streets, and near the entrance, a police officer is holding out a nightstick, hollering, but Jim can't get back. He's already late and can't very well get stuck with the non -ticket holding crowd. He has an orchestra to direct. Pressing forward, Jim bellows over the competing voices around him. The overwhelmed policeman roughly answers. Hearing this exchange, people in the crowd now take notice of the large, well -dressed, dark -skinned man in the wire -rimmed glasses. Oh wow. They're standing right next to Jim Europe. The Jim Europe! Scores of voices vouch for Jim, assuring the officer that he isn't lying to gain access. This really is the conductor of the Clef Club Orchestra, and the concert can't go on without him. Finally convinced, the policeman lets Jim buy. Exhausted and late, Big Jim walks briskly and directly toward the stage, but comes to a sharp stop in the wings as his eyes take in the scene. Before him are 125 or so members of his Clef Club Orchestra, the 150 members of the Clef Club Chorus, and still more black artists, from the gifted violinist Will Marion Cook to the bellhops, barbers, and doormen of New York, who, often unable to read music, play their guitars, mandolins, double basses, or other instruments by ear. Jim has taught some of these guys the songs they'll play tonight, note by note. And looking beyond these hundreds of black musicians on stage is a veritable sea of black and white faces, from the city's prominent to the unknown, intermingled, filling every single one of Carnegie Hall's 2 ,800 seats, standing in the aisles, standing in the back. Some are even seated on the edge of the stage. My God, what a sight. Has such a group ever assembled before? Well, no time for speculation. The show must go on. Jim steps onto the stage. The audience gives Vital, the spectacle conductor, a warm welcome as he steps out. Taking his place before his dear friends, the many members of the Clef Club Orchestra give in motions for all to sit. Jim then lifts his baton and with that starts their first number, the Clef Club March. It's one of Jim's own compositions and for most of the white audience members, it's a new sound altogether. I mean, it's a march all right. Troops can march to it, but it's got something else, something special. If this is quote unquote, unrefined and vulgar, well, these white New Yorkers are all for it. The beat is captivating and soon thousands of spectators, regardless of their color, are wagging their fingers, tapping their feet and nodding along with the Clef Club March. At the end of the march, the mixed race audience erupts with cheers and applause for the Clef Club Orchestra and its director, Jim Crow. Ultimately, tonight's concert proves a screaming success, raising significant funds for the music school settlement for colored people and receiving largely positive reviews in the press. But little does Jim know that in the not so distant future, he won't just play his military marches for civilians. Soon, he and his music will help to raise and serve a National Guard regiment of black soldiers destined to become one of the most celebrated and decorated in the great war to come. One whose very name will send a chill down German spines, the Harlem Hellfighters.
History That Doesn't Suck
"white theater" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"How powerful is Cox Internet? So powerful that one day your daughter will be able to simulate a soccer match against some of the world's best players right from your backyard. Get gig speeds powered by fiber from Cox. It's internet built for tomorrow, today. Internet delivered through Cox's hybrid fiber coax network. Speeds vary and are not guaranteed. Cox terms and other restrictions apply. This episode contains instances of race -based violence and murder. Listener discretion is advised. History That Doesn't Suck is a bi -weekly podcast delivering a legit, seriously researched, hard -hitting survey of American history through entertaining stories. If you'd like to support We're at the corner of 57th and 7th in Midtown, New York City, where a seemingly endless throng is descending upon the city's unparalleled cathedral of music, Carnegie Hall. The wealthier are arriving in traditional horse -drawn carriages or those new gas -powered taxi cabs. Others rode the less than a decade old but quickly expanding subway or simply walked. But however they came, these New Yorkers, black and white, are about to experience a night of entertainment unlike any the nation has ever seen. Tonight, 300 black musicians, either a solo act or in a group, are performing in a single concert. But before we enter this theater, a quick aside. Let's remember that we're in the era of Jim Crow and even here in the north, segregation can exist. In fact, black and white theater goers typically sit as two separate groups. Not tonight, though. This concert will have no color barrier as black artists perform, to quote historian Stephen Harris, their own music in the most famous white -owned, white -run theater in the country and before a mixed audience. More than that, the proceeds will benefit the city's just established music school settlement for colored people. A historic night indeed then, provided all goes well. And will it? The music school's white, violin virtuoso founder, David Maness, who believes that music is humanity's universal language and the key to healing the nation's racial divides, cautiously hopes so. But not all agree. Another brilliant violinist, a black composer named Will Marion Cook, fears that white attendees won't enjoy what they hear tonight. He knows that many white Americans consider black music to be unsophisticated, vulgar even. He worries that this concert will fail and in doing so, quote, set the Negro race back 50 years, close quote. Yikes. The stakes are high then, and perhaps no one feels that more so than one of the few who helped organize this concert and is key to the actual performance. The president of the African -American Harlem -based music organization, the Clef Club, and the conductor of its namesake Orchestra, the one and only James Reese Europe. And with that background, let's get back to this concert. James Reese Europe, or Big Jim, as the six -foot tall, athletic -built, and well -known musician is typically called, is pressing his way through the streets outside the five -story, reddish and brown brick Carnegie Hall. Sales were flagging just yesterday, but thanks to an article in the Evening Journal, a thousand people are out here now, clamoring for tickets to this sold -out concert. In many ways, his sold -out concert. Assuming he can get inside, that is. It's turning into a madhouse in the streets, and near the entrance, a police officer is holding out a nightstick, hollering, but Jim can't get back. He's already late and can't very well get stuck with the non -ticket holding crowd. He has an orchestra to direct. Pressing forward, Jim bellows over the competing voices around him. The overwhelmed policeman roughly answers. Hearing this exchange, people in the crowd now take notice of the large, well -dressed, dark -skinned man in the wire -rimmed glasses. Oh wow. They're standing right next to Jim Europe. The Jim Europe! Scores of voices vouch for Jim, assuring the officer that he isn't lying to gain access. This really is the conductor of the Clef Club Orchestra, and the concert can't go on without him. Finally convinced, the policeman lets Jim buy. Exhausted and late, Big Jim walks briskly and directly toward the stage, but comes to a sharp stop in the wings as his eyes take in the scene. Before him are 125 or so members of his Clef Club Orchestra, the 150 members of the Clef Club Chorus, and still more black artists, from the gifted violinist Will Marion Cook to the bellhops, barbers, and doormen of New York, who, often unable to read music, play their guitars, mandolins, double basses, or other instruments by ear. Jim has taught some of these guys the songs they'll play tonight, note by note. And looking beyond these hundreds of black musicians on stage is a veritable sea of black and white faces, from the city's prominent to the unknown, intermingled, filling every single one of Carnegie Hall's 2 ,800 seats, standing in the aisles, standing in the back. Some are even seated on the edge of the stage. My God, what a sight. Has such a group ever assembled before? Well, no time for speculation. The show must go on. Jim steps onto the stage. The audience gives Vital, the spectacle conductor, a warm welcome as he steps out. Taking his place before his dear friends, the many members of the Clef Club Orchestra give in motions for all to sit. Jim then lifts his baton and with that starts their first number, the Clef Club March. It's one of Jim's own compositions and for most of the white audience members, it's a new sound altogether. I mean, it's a march all right. Troops can march to it, but it's got something else, something special. If this is quote unquote, unrefined and vulgar, well, these white New Yorkers are all for it. The beat is captivating and soon thousands of spectators, regardless of their color, are wagging their fingers, tapping their feet and nodding along with the Clef Club March. At the end of the march, the mixed race audience erupts with cheers and applause for the Clef Club Orchestra and its director, Jim Crow. Ultimately, tonight's concert proves a screaming success, raising significant funds for the music school settlement for colored people and receiving largely positive reviews in the press. But little does Jim know that in the not so distant future, he won't just play his military marches for civilians. Soon, he and his music will help to raise and serve a National Guard regiment of black soldiers destined to become one of the most celebrated and decorated in the great war to come. One whose very name will send a chill down German spines, the Harlem Hellfighters.
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"white theater" Discussed on WCPT 820
"A former president making this extraordinary declaration, in part perhaps it's because they believe that if they blow up the economy, it may in order to their political benefit. I think they're wrong about that because the American people understand how extreme and how reckless and how dangerous this group of extreme maggot Republicans have become. And that's the problem that we're dealing with right now is that we've got a huge issue that's facing us. I mean, we're weeks away, and this means seniors will not be getting their social security checks. Right. Right. The ramifications of this are really, really big on our economy, your ability to buy a car to get a loan, interest rates, all of that is going to be affected by this. And they're playing brinksmanship. And the person who's playing that game, the hardest is Kevin McCarthy, the one who has the least control over the world around him in general right now, because and it's so funny to watch him try and project control. My God. My favorite, my favorite thing he's been doing lately is where he goes on. We're the only ones who have raised the debt ceiling. No. Because to raise the debt ceiling, you all have to do something together. And that's compromised. And he's got to compromise with the Senate, right? And The White House. He's the one who's going to have to bend because right now it's two against one. Basically, if he's going to sit here and say, I'm the one who's done something. Well, there's two other branches who say, no, you haven't. And that means you need to do your job, Kevin, even if it costs you the speakership because you should care more about this country than that little bit of power that you have by three votes in the house. Yeah. So think about that, Kevin. And that's all I have to say about Kevin. All right, my mom's my mom's congressman, I was in lovely president this weekend. Yeah. That place is. It's special, but mom lives there. Let's go to the phone lines up here. Seth, the home of hope, how are you doing, Seth? Hey, boys who are doing great because you guys are doing great. Oh, thank you. So much but she's my, this is like a three way of my dreams right here. So yeah. So first, I'm hoping I'm homo hoping, Stephanie's all good. I know she did a big bike ride yesterday. So maybe she had leg cramps. I know my husband doesn't. She was able to come down the stairs. She was able to go through this. So then I'm thinking maybe she is picking out online wedding dresses because she's looking at being since. But I don't want to put a kind of horror on it. These marriage jokes. But or she's in the witness protection program, which is going to come down with a home to identity tomorrow. But that could be it. Who can say? It could be. Yes. That's exactly it. And there could be a cobra connection. You know, that whole thing about the whistleblower. They never have whistleblowers. They just have smoke blowers. And they're all fluffers. Each and every one of them. And you know, and here's the thing. If you live like in a certain world, let's say in a cult or you live in a counterculture world somewhere, that's your perspective. That's your piece of the pie. So you see the whole universe through that crazy piece of pie. So like these Republicans, like they, they think these crazy things about that they project on Biden because that's the world they live in. That's all they know. So it's like if I'm a white beater, that means you're a white theater, everybody's a wife theater. And that's their go to at their mode. And the good news is they are so extreme. Everything has blown up in their face. And that Kevin McCartney speaking of faces, you know who he looks like as hit me the other day. Now, this could be before your time boy. I'm Mr. Rogers, the puppet, lady Elaine. Lady lane. Yeah, she lived in the museum go round. Yes, yes. And you know this sort of thing. Children's programming. I remember that, but the museum go round is a new one. Yeah? Yeah. And so he's in this crazy museum go around with that training with large retailer green and Paul gosar and all of the crazies. That's their world. But he definitely, he's looking more and more peak at every every day. Yeah. And I think he would also, it's a good drag queen. Okay. I could see it. I think maybe secretly that's what he does on when he gets back to Bakersfield. I'm sure there's like a secret drag queen bar. Maybe Stephanie caught him at a drag queen show and now she's now she's being, she kidnapped. You seriously still there upstairs. Oh, yeah, she came down this morning. Yep. Well, everybody's going to be, this is bigger than who shot JR. I know. Yeah. I was speaking of drag queen bars. I did something really daring and Fresno. What? My mom was very excited. I'm going to show this one with Seth because I'm sure you'll have comments on this. They opened a Nordstrom rack. And Fresno, that's a big deal in Fresno. Okay. And so mom wanted to go there to see the Nordstrom racks. We were walking around. We were walking through the shoe section. And mama bone is a tall woman. Sure, she wears size 13. She's a sturdy woman, which is size 13 is not an easy thing to find in women's shoes. And if you out there who have never had to search for that, size 13 is never easy to find. And so my mom always like, when we see a size 13 section, we joke around about it. And my mom was like, oh, wait to see these red shoes down there. Those red shoes. Those red shoes. I can't imagine that she would wear those. No, and we'll know mama bone would not wear those, but you know what we were in, I decided to just really challenge what was going on in Nordstrom rack for that moment. And I said, give me those. I bet I can wedge my foot into those. And so I put on those red high heels in Nordstrom and Nordstrom rack. I'm sorry, in Clovis. If you know the difference between president and Clovis, you know what I'm talking about because Clovis is the really conservative part of town. So I put on those red shoes and walked down an aisle just to prove that I could. Okay. In a store in Fresno, that was my solidarity with drag queens and president and weekend. Because that's about all I got. So what do you think about that one Seth? I can wear a size 13 women's high heel. Travis, I can hear hearts breaking all across America right now. That you are taking that because you in those shoes. Oh my God. You know what? Those shoes, next on October 21st, you got to go get those shoes to wear your superhero outfit. Well, I would, but I'm also not spending $16 million. I'm not wearing the I'm not spending $16 on a pair of Steve Madden come F me red pumps because if anything was a competition, miss marvel would wear them. No, she just sits a little boot with a square heel. Well, do you worth it? 'cause then you could wear them again at Stephanie's wedding. This is true. This is very true. When Chris is giving me the signal, we need to break. Obviously, I've gone too far with this joke. It's a hard break. I love things hard. The software is a soft break. Yeah, sorry. Maybe slightly turgid now. We're soft for you. Sorry. It could be turgid. It could be a turgid break, 'cause we do need to get this in. Okay. Yes. All right, thank you very much. Thank you. All right, this is the Stephanie Miller show. It is 20 minutes after the hour. And this portion of the show is brought to you by woke. Woke. Yeah, we are woke. You are what you drink. And you
Paul Vato Presents: A Celebrity Centric Podcast!
"white theater" Discussed on Paul Vato Presents: A Celebrity Centric Podcast!
"If they're in a happy memory, why fight them and try to drag them out of it. Instead, live in there with them for a little bit. And they'll come out of it. They always do for that little moment. Be there with them. Oh, yeah, yeah, round of applause, man. Thank you. Thank you. You're doing God's work, man. That is fantastic. What's the name of the organization or is there some place that people can contribute or help? My workshops are now independent. I teach them either independently for me or through white theater for the studio theater. The original organization that I helped found out of the Boston area is called healing moments. Moments does a lot of the workshops that I just described. They also interweave a spirituality aspect to it. They're now based out of Iowa. I still work with them to help develop workshops, but so I'll sometimes work through them, but a lot of this work now, especially living in Florida, which has a very heavy retired population. I do a lot of this stuff. Either hired independently or through Florida studio theater. Wow, my grandmother had Alzheimer's, but she was also bulimic, so we'd have to go, hey, grandma. Sorry. Man, I was like, maybe I won't do stand up, never mind. That's a good one. You gotta just, once again, the audience is trust. You can put that one in. Exactly. Exactly. Instagram or your website will dot com. And for those of you that don't know, I think everyone that's here on fireside already knows you can go right to that fortune cookie right below us and you can click on that and you'll see my website Paul watto dot com. You will also see will dash and weta dot com so please find well. What's your Instagram where people can follow you and for Instagram or Twitter or do you have any either one I checked both regularly? It's W loe. And everything. Instagram and Twitter to Pinterest, it'll always be at WWW. Oh, and Chris watts for people to know that Mel cigars were harmed in the making of his podcast. This is amazing. Do you have anything that you'd like to promote? Anything are you going to go on tour soon or what do you have coming up? Yeah, other than those few days. The rest of my schedule is starting, it's finally, I'm finally able to start to project and plan out in advance. So all of those dates will start to pop up on my website, but I'm hoping to do some stuff on the West Coast in the Texas area, Chicago, northeast and Florida. So it'll all start. Once the schedule comes together,
A Bowl of Soul A Mixed Stew of Soul Music
"white theater" Discussed on A Bowl of Soul A Mixed Stew of Soul Music
"Be single for twenty twenty one. Call love me. You can get the single on all music platforms. We're going to end the show. What a powerful song from. Hip hop. Mike mc nas talking about we're going to be ultra black and this is a bowl of soul. Go in his post to say legal holzer. We go in notre blackadder toasted. We don't follow the go with a case of we've it at pucko opposed to going out to watching the globe with chain hopping. The coldest rain foia post aslan. We go to plan we go. We go with the blues soul to chance to tolls tag. I'm not supposed to tell. The truth was fast. Great show skin but multi multiple colors become an essays except enough fight me on emotion. Stadium might be pitch black like the night a mulching black that sanford assert reruns jokes a black. Yes so yes. God bless success. We go and ocho black hawk with a mask. The freshness breath african black arrest the flesh superfly and flying the lack. Take the boat on the water history. Talk from my daughter passionately s.'s. Hope you be better than not press status. Sometimes a moldova plaque even closer black casts money with the white theater soldier ragweed and black unapologetically black dolgin michael blacks and plan go notre black. I gotta toasted. We don't folded case. Roles it at buckle postal. We go to bag watching the globe. The coldest rains hit boy on the beat. The post to slap we go out we go. We go a note rate. Raise oakland hat. I smoke today. Three rosen yet was the result c-notes bags. she knows. classy. Like i'm -bility. Will you go kennedy film penitentiary to black out when the black don't crack the felton youth. The coaches black like beautiful osha black. Let's say black amax. Black roles have froze black that ball from the super bowl. Count holly hill tracking motel. Museum opposed to black canola man. No matter your race to me. We all the plan. We go in notre black toasted. We don't vote the track filled that puckering post to go two black watching the globe. Hit boy on the beat. The shit that we should black black is beautiful will give you some classic hip hop from nas talking about ultra black from the album kings disease and i hope you enjoy this segment of a bowl of so. Make sure you download some.
The Takeaway
"white theater" Discussed on The Takeaway
"See white theater like there is so much pressure all of a sudden being put on theaters institutions just like figures in power and particularly of course white figures and power in a way that we haven't really seen in the theater will at least i haven't i think it's great and i think that you know the fact that we're seeing these institutions shift. Not just with a new plays on. That are coming to broadway but just the fact that there are new people who are coming in are like diversity inclusion officers. There are changing of the guard in a lot of the big theaters like. That's that's all really important. And i'm really excited to be part of that or like the a part of this moment especially as a black critic a you know last summer was a time for better and worse right for many establishments across our country to sort of received the incoming about what their actions and what their omissions in their blind spots have meant onto the constituencies in the communities that they serve and so of course. The theater was no no exception. But you know it throughout the publishing world throughout the academic world everywhere. There was a sort of often expressed in this epistolary way. Like here's what's been going on. Here's how this part of our psyche has contributed to this larger mess. This conflagration that we see so those letters. I thought had a big impact and the theater community as as learning as a critic and sort of understanding the byways It's a very small community. Jeremy harrison light play for example. There were lots of things that happened in that are producing group to sort of bring in black audiences and Change price structures. And things like this so this was a sort of a a deepening of something. That's been going on for a long time whether you get in exchange for all time or not. It's really cool to be part of a thing while it is happening and to be able to both contribute and think about it in the moment. But i'm wondering if you also feel optimistic that the changes will be lasting sustained. I've not at all optimistic. Unfortunately yeah so. Yes i was saying it was. It feels great to be in this moment. But i say that with the same address. That vinson was saying that you know we've seen this so many times in so many industries that like there will be dudes changes happen. And i hope that it won't just be like this season that this conversation is still kind of fresh people's minds. I hope after that after the kind of fire everything dies down a little bit more that we won't go to back to a season of like all white playwrights and like all white casts and alway- creative teams like but it's always a possibility. Unfortunately it's just that's how this industry is and it's just it's dominated by whiteness. Unfortunately we started by saying why should broadway matter beyond new york but also why should it matter beyond those who have a certain kind of disposable income. How do we get to experience. Be part of broadway these experiences. You all are having You know being there you know in that actual space hearing the eminem rapper unless you have hundreds of dollars in in disposable income it is something that frankly haunts right and feeder from its origins ended in. The ancient is supposed to be an expression precisely of democracy. Right if it. If comes along with the greeks it we think of it in parallel with something like democracy. Something like broad access. Something that reflects every current in the society. And so if everybody can't come that seems like a bit of a dark joke But actually think that this issue of class in access has a lot to do with what we're talking about about just sort of varying the offerings on that come on to the stage in both cases it seems to me that like our country needs to realize What actually the arts give our society you know the the democrats pushing for this infrastructure bill in part of that has been expanding what we mean by infrastructure. It seems to me that one of the deep places of infrastructure in our country is indeed the arts and used to have a federal writers program federal theater program that helped artists make work and increase their capacity to reach audiences outside of these establishments and make their work undeniable. And that's how so many of the people that we love made it to the stage In the years after the new deal at it seems to me that our country in some ways needs to step up and provide some insurance that perhaps these establishments can't or won't But until that's a part of it until you know these ticket prices go down. And i don't know how he's that pressure except at the highest levels. It's gonna be a bit of a shame. I think this is kind of a test case. Because i think tourism is still down right and so we have a little bit of an experiment might. Can we get somebody to travel not from iowa but from queens to come to the theater you know. Can we get somebody to come from. Staten island come to the theater. What what can we do here in our own backyard. This varied city that we have. We don't even forget about seeing the country. We don't see the city in the and so that to me. Seems like a good place to start was also specifically thinking about you know my experience. Just being like fledgling theater critic in new york. It's just like. I was affected by the accessibility to it's it's i mean. Of course it's a different situation. Of course i am so coming from a place of privilege but it's also difficult for certain groups of people even within the industry to get access to certain shows as a freelancer. whatever. I wasn't always able to get prior press access until like some of the big broadway shows so there are like some gaps in my knowledge that unfortunate. That's that's me as an actual journalist so just imagine all these audiences that are out there who just have no awareness of the shows being happening or like you know can't get out there or just don't have the money to get out there you know. It's it's it's all an issue. I feel like maybe just planted a hamilton shade tree. I'm not sure if that was accurate or not but that was just. I'm just let that. Shade tree grow and spread it. Anything more no comment okay. Good visiting my before. We go though. I am hoping that maybe you'll both just give me one. We talked a little bit here about a pass over. I don't know whether to call it. Passover passover or pass over but tell me a little bit about at least one other play that for you is what. You're really looking forward to this season. Vincent we can start with you. First of all. I would say that the confusion over that name is precisely one of the tensions. I think in the place so you are already on the right track and something that i'm like sort of perversely waiting for because i just don't know what to expect as the michael jackson musical at. I just want to know what the nottage will do with michael jackson. Who if you're live now you've probably been thinking about for your whole life. I am really really psyched for trouble in mind. Which is like it should be classic. It should be part of the canon. But i think that it's been kind of forgotten and i just think it's one of the perfect place for this moment like just talking about bringing black actors and like a black show to the stage what that actually means so. I think that's going to be exciting to see people experience. My phillips is a critic at large for the new york times. And i really feel like needs to come back and have a whole conversation about freelancing and vinton cunningham is a theater critic for the new yorker and drops phrases like minor key epistolary. Just like like. It's no big deal and i enjoyed this very much vincent. Thank you for being here so fun. Thank you so much rather my thank you for being here. Yeah glad to be here. Thanks okay all we have for you today. Be sure to join us tomorrow. We've got a great politics show lined up and of course calls with your show ideas or suggestions at eight seven seven eight mile take. That's eight seven. 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Pardon My Sarcasm! with Ashley D & Fuze B
"white theater" Discussed on Pardon My Sarcasm! with Ashley D & Fuze B
"To say the least it was family. Yeah it was definitely a change of pace chancellor adjustment. Do you know what dad goggles. i think. Have them all the time. I asked busy with dag goggles. Me had him. I don't know. I don't know what the story so i don't know the definition but i think i know what they are. I'll give you an example. My daughter comes in from date with boyfriend last night. You cannot date well. that's that's another. That's another podcast. so asset. What are you wearing. And she had like shorts on like a wife beater halter halter top. Thank you yeah. I don't know the proper female white theater. And i said what are you wearing in my why. So what are you talking about. I was like can you more clothing on. Maybe a t shirt. She was like. I wear that kind of stuff i was like. Okay what am i going to say. She's an adult. That's what i would call dan. Season adult in your kid is not it will. That's that's a good point. All the kids are doing a dead you know. That's what if if your kid had an alcoholic beverage. Your wife's not gonna go. Oh i drink shutdown right here and the message was received. Hey maybe you should wear a little bit more. They were so her boyfriend's will skater so they were the skate park and it was so dacca will basically are yet when you look at your kid different than everybody else. Basically very similar to your campbell hill. Yes yes still depends on. The situation is my daughter is. I don't wanna say smarter kiss. But she's dot com. Goals wants this is with the results are day. say that. She's the only one that knows her alphabet in her class. That's not bad how it's got the information and process and saying hey. My daughter is burger and all were alphabets class. That's not that there's facts dad and say oh. My my daughter is the smartest children in the world. I will be one day. But she's now she's still. I think that comes with like when you're getting older in. Your kids are in sports and they kind of got the princess. Does the if you're coming up in a community where there's like a prodigy kid and young against that kid. This says that. That's lebron james. Child stryer of the racetrack. I think the dad goggles sing gets call that. It's never mom goggles. Because moms are typically more judgment. My kids stupid so now. Thousands of the question is is. It must be challenged us to the family. Any dad is going to have to hat congress about their child. They're going to always put them before others absolutely especially for the girl. If you're on the titanic. It's going down. You're probably going to send your kids artist because it was cool with to save. There is a pecking order. Get kids to be i. I'll put question is i'll address. Okay fit say that you're with someone. I know four years right okay. Obviously you're married or not torture will say are say you're with her for four years. Okay and where you from wishing for. I'm from right here charleston. Wishing for she's from walter's after all right let's go actually. That's a little too close. Let's say if this person from pennsylvania. Okay so she's from. I and you guys plan a trip a weekend. Trip male holiday weekend ought to go up to her hands out event. You have to go on saturday because of work or whatever she goes the day before right those up there. She hangs out with the crew getting to meet them all tomorrow. You've been four years. She calls you and says hey. I'm crashing at johns instead of the hotel. Janis my best friend for forever but my you never met johnny. There was never no plan for her to crash. Janis she ever talk about johnny. So good question impassive okay. Oh my friends back home. I got johnny. Probably because johnny's on facebook but overall is their trust at dinner like everything else seems perfectly. But i've nowhere. She does that to you. I should maybe not to you. But just i think it would be a red flag caused a in the relationship or maybe have a huge argument. I think it might happen when i arrived like once. I got there and said once. Let me give an opportunity to meet johnny. Look at the context clues kind of see what's up but you gotta remember. They've been friends all this time that they know how to get past the context clues they not aggregate around each other. If they're doing something. I guess i would have to say that. If i was with the person for years i would hope that that four year of time investment entrust was built on a foundation. So that trust should carry over. Even when you're not right. I would have to just have faith. Partisans were actually. What was your thoughts on. I'm gonna go with that. Not every relationship has that has built that trump probably or. You need an entrusted months year. We have we're having a good for us trust. And you shouldn't be doing i. I want i would question that. The motive was your. Here's the thing. Did you call me before and say. Hey i'm gonna spend the night over there. Hey on women wrong yeah maybe too much but then even if even listen if it was you i would throw this at you and go here. Talk to my boyfriend. Events like at least at boston. What probably ask well. Why did you deviate from the original plan. And there will be some questions when he dropped her off at the hotel. Hormones wouldn't get off scot-free that's for sure there'd be interrogation jumped and had a conversation with the boyfriend. Hey man you know. Even if it's stupid like let's get on with the letter. I would make me feel better. If there was at least some attempt a some sort of phone call even if it was like a facetime shed pace call. Yeah ours participant. Okay well i was part to said person you you decide that you don't want to go on a trip now right so you say okay fucking i'm gonna hang out with my people dispersing gets home and they're upset you for one not going to vacation and to for you. Ask them why they at first place they have. Inger.
Artist Soapbox * Local Artists on Creative Process
"white theater" Discussed on Artist Soapbox * Local Artists on Creative Process
"More and i haven't done as much as i'd like i've taught quite a bit on zoom. I haven't performed very much I'm done one class. That i think has been super interesting. And it's got in my gears turning their grinding in my brian. And i'm trying to figure out how to create entertaining experiences and i can't wait till in person children's theatre can return because there's nothing like it i i really haven't done as much zoom. Ty as i want. And i've got a lot of stuff that i want to try out the thing that got my gears. Grinding and got me thinking creatively about zoom was a process drama class that i co taught with raleigh theater on. Zoom is like the definition of. It is participatory the whole way through and it requires the teacher to teach in role. Which is something. I haven't seen a lot of in the triangle area and this is something. That meredith peterson cooper the education directorate little theater. And i were talking about the. There's not a lot of teaching enroll which requires. Like if i'm teaching a lesson about peter rabbit than i might quit on a cap and be mr mcgregor and maybe i have like a a little like a bucket or or like some kind of profit doesn't require me to go full out in costume certainly can but semblances and pieces are enough because children don't need a lot to be creative and you are creating a story that never existed and they are participating the hallway through so they are making suggestions on. You're trying to solve an overarching problem with those classes. I think the the theme that had was we were trying to save atlantis. It took a little bit of creativity on meredith in my part to figure out what the what atlanta's problems and then we did like canvas graphics and things like that like we got a letter from the atlantans asking us for help and then we have to brainstorm like what would we pack to go to atlanta and so then it was like a pantomime activity where were all packing our bags. And then we're journeying and this kind of dramatized where we're all journeying zoom windows to atlantis. And i don't think we got to atlanta's until the third class period. We had to come up with ways to help them and we would use theatre games and a drama exercises activities to save atlantis and it was so interesting to see how this activity worked on zoom. Because it's so not zoom but it worked the activity machine where a child enters and does a repeated and a repeated sound and they're all like the cogs of a machine and so they were trying to create a machine that can save atlanta's and it worked on windows better than i anticipated. I thought the sound would get wonky. That worked really well and it's really easy. Especially when there's another grownup turn your camera off or leaders in window throw on a piece of fabric and then re enter with changing the name. And now i think i was the great or recall the underwater great oracle at one point and he was allowed and he was a fan of the boston. Red sox and i played this character and the kids love it. And they don't say no. That's not the great oracle. That's mr dylan. Nine times out of ten. They won't do that. And i think that anyone with zuma account can do that. Anyone with a zuma account and some creativity and some energy and some time and do that you don't even have to have a streaming platform. Honestly i think it might be better not to do it on the streaming platform because the streaming platform creates a disconnect whereas if they're all in the same zoom room than they all its participatory and they all have agency over the story. That's being told. I want to do more of that. And i think the back still exist in post pandemic times you were asking about being a freelance theatre artist working for so many companies. I am just grateful. I'm really grateful to be able to do it. I have a lot of energy. And i love the work and i like to do a bunch of different things. It's one of the reasons that i stuck with the for youth and i didn't do theater education theatre educators in the public schools. Are superheroes bay live under those fluorescent lights and they own it and they work crazy hours and they don't get a lot of compensation to create a whole theater program and they put on these shows and they are often times the designer the director the producer. All the things and i teach kids how to be technicians and actors. I really wanted to be able to. I like the change of scenery. And i liked that one day. I'm teaching raleigh little theatre. And then the next day. I had two miles down hillsborough street to teach a pure white theater. Exciting to me and every studio was different and they place an emphasis on different things in their offerings are different so one day i might be teaching cross drama with with narrative that royal theatre but then the next thing i might be teaching devising or i might be teaching zips apt up A an. I think that's really cool. I'm just grateful to be working. Because i know that it's hard right now for freelancers and it's hard. It's hard for theater artists in general and it's also hard for young people that have started out or are just now starting out. I think i'm a little bit of an anomaly. I can explain that. But i'm really grateful that i am working. Is there anything that you'd like to talk about that. We haven't covered before. We wrap up by dream for the triangle area. Is that an. It's what i thought i would be. Doing and twenty years. Is that the triangle area. We'll have a theater company that it's a professional theatre company that would focus solely on performing and presenting professional theatre for young audiences. That would both tour in all of the rural county surrounding wake county. That don't have as much arts opportunity. And don't have all the studios and all of the programs and would also provide you know we. We do a great job in the area of providing education experiences. I wanna see. The triangle provide more entertainment experiences for for young audiences. I think we're heading in that direction. But i want to see. I think it's gonna take one theater to say. I am here and i am going to focus on her forming for young audiences because young audiences deserve theater.
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Storytellers: Lorraine Hansberry
"Today's storyteller was a playwright and activist. Who stories centered. African american working class families despite tragically short career. She became the first black woman to have a play produced on broadway half a century later her work remains one of the most celebrated snapshots of black struggles and black joy. Here's the story of lorraine hands berry lorraine hands berry was born on may nineteenth nineteen thirty on the south side of chicago. Her father carl. Augustus was a prominent figure. Within the city's black community having founded one of the first african american banks growing up lorraine and her three older siblings played host to a number of famous people including langston hughes. Wabc boys duke ellington and olympic gold. Medalist jesse owens. Despite their middle class status and cultural connections the hands berries were still subject to chicago's deeply ingrained. Housing segregation agreements known as restrictive covenants were widespread throughout the city. White property owners could collectively agree not to sell to african americans. This practice created a ghetto known as the black belt which ran through the south side when lorraine was eight years old. Her father secretly bought a home. In one of the so-called restricted heads in nineteen thirty seven when the family moved in a white mob attacked a brick was thrown through the window narrowly missing lorraine the local homeowners association filed an injunction for the hands berries to vacate lorraine her siblings were chased spat and beaten during their walks to and from school the supreme court of illinois doubled down on the legality of the restrictive covenant. And the hands. Berries were forced out of their home eventually the. Us supreme court overruled this ruling on a technicality. Thirty blocks subsequently opened up to black families across the south side while this ruling and the hands fight did not outlaw restrictive covenants. It did signal. The beginning of the end for the practice lorraine attended. Chicago's englewood high school where she became interested in theatre. She initially attended the university of wisconsin. Where she cut her teeth with the communist party but left after two years in one thousand nine hundred fifty lorraine moved to new york to be a writer by nineteen fifty one lorraine had found a home in harlem and began socializing with many of the great thinkers who had once visited her family back in chicago. She started writing for paul robeson freedom a progressive newspaper at a protest against racial discrimination at new york university lorraine met robert number off a jewish writer. They married at her family home in chicago. In nineteen fifty three in nineteen. Six robert co wrote the hit song. Cindy oh cindy it's prophets allowed lorraine to stop working to focus on writing. She began developing a play that she initially called. The crystal stair langston hughes poem mother to son she would later changed the name to a raisin in the sun. This too was from a langston hughes poem called harlem. What happens to a dream deferred. Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun or faster like a sore and then run a raisin in the sun centers on a black working class family in chicago south side as they try to improve their financial situation. The patriarch of the family has died and a ten thousand dollar insurance payout is imminent they the money to buy a house in the cheaper all white neighborhood nearby to they use it to invest in a liquor store and education lorraine based many of the characters on the families who rented from her father and with whom she attended high school the cast safer one character was entirely black lorraine was in her twenties and the play itself dealt with racism life in chicago's black belt and the pain of assimilation into white culture topics that were considered risky for the predominantly white theater. Going crowd it took over a year to raise enough money to put the play up. When it debuted in nineteen fifty-nine a raisin in the sun was the first play written by a black woman to be produced on broadway and the first to be led by an african american director lorraine was twenty nine years old. The play was an almost instant. Hit the new york drama critics circle named it. The best play of the year just five months after its broadway debut arisen in the son of in london's west end in nineteen sixty one. A film starring much of the original cast was released and several of the actors received golden globe. Nominations perhaps the most important element of the play success was that entailing box stories. Lorraine also make theater accessible and previously unimaginable ways as the writer. James baldwin noted. I had never in my life seen so many black people in the theater and the reason was that never before in the entire history of the american theatre had so much of the truth of black people's lives and seen on the stage. Black people had ignored the theatre because the theatre had always ignored them lorraine would go on to finish in stage. Just one other. Play the sign in sidney bruce. Deans window about a jewish intellectual the play which explored themes of homosexuality and the bohemian lifestyle. Debuted to mixed reviews in nineteen sixty four. It ran for just over one hundred performances closing on january twelfth. Nineteen sixty five. That's same day. Lorraine hanbury died of pancreatic cancer. She was thirty four years old. After lorraine's death. Her ex husband robert had several of her plays produced posthumously to be young gifted and black became an autobiographical work. Drawing on lorraine's letters interviews and journal entries the title came from a nineteen sixty four speech of lorraine's when she spoke to the winners of a united negro fund writing competition. She said speech though. It be thrilling marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times it is doubly so w dynamic to be young gifted and black