A couple of weeks ago, I saw Toxic Avenger for a forthcoming article for TDF. The play has several actors who play multiple parts. Two of these characters are named "White Dude" and "Black Dude" and are played by a white actor and black actor respectively.
Except... the night we saw it, we saw the understudy for "Black Dude"... who is hispanic... and also understudies "White Dude".
This strikes me, frankly, as totally bizarre.
uh...come again?
they couldn't find a black actor, in all of NYC, to understudy?
or wait...maybe they couldn't afford 2 understudies so they thought a hispanic actor would "split the difference" and save money?
*sigh*
Posted by: Jennifer Gordon Thomas | July 28, 2009 at 11:26 AM
Considering the show, I have to think that this is a perverse sense of casting humor. Ironically "splitting the difference" if you will. If so, I think it's kinda hilarious.
Posted by: Paul Rekk | July 28, 2009 at 12:26 PM