Audra McDonald PISSED Broadway Is Silent On Black Lives Matter
Tony- and Grammy-winning talent Audra McDonald said the eerie silence from the Broadway community after George Floyd's death back in May bothered her so much that she co-launched Black Theatre United, an advocacy coalition of Black Broadway stars focused on increasing equality and representation on stage and beyond.
"The theater community comes together to raise awareness for lots of issues — LGBTQ issues, issues with immigration, things like that. But when the George Floyd murder happened, it just felt a little too silent from the theater community. It absolutely bothered me,"
That lack of response prompted a text exchange between McDonald and her friend and fellow Broadway star Rhonda LaChanze Sapp, known professionally as LaChanze, about how to "make some noise" and "try and effect change whatever way we can." The Black Theatre United co-founders reached out to other Broadway talent like Vanessa Williams, Wendell Pierce, Tamara Tunie, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Anna Deavere Smith, and Norman Lewis, all of whom would become part of the movement's 21-member team of actors, directors, musicians, writers, technicians, producers and stage managers.
"We thought, let's bring our community together and start to raise awareness and work on the micro issue of systemic racism within the theater community, and then the macro issue of systemic racism within our country," McDonald said of the organization, which launched in June.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | September 21, 2020 7:21 AM
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I thought it was shuttered?
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 21, 2020 2:44 AM
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Thus, everyone’s silent about everything.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 21, 2020 2:46 AM
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Broadway has gone darkie.
What more the bitch want?
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 21, 2020 2:48 AM
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Here is the PSA with some of the biggest names in Broadway saying
Black Lives Matter!
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 21, 2020 2:50 AM
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Says the multiple Tony award winning slag.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 21, 2020 3:13 AM
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R3 and R5, your Klan meeting is at the American Legion post. Take a sharp right....a very, very sharp right.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 21, 2020 3:16 AM
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And this is why Trump will probably win :(
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 21, 2020 3:19 AM
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She showed her pussy in Frankie & Johnny.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | September 21, 2020 3:45 AM
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[quote]Take a sharp right....a very, very sharp right.
Not as sharp as what some of them spearchuckers carry.
Lighten up R6, like Sammy Sosa.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | September 21, 2020 4:10 AM
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R7, I am so sick of people like you. Just shut the fuck up.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | September 21, 2020 5:48 AM
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That's sure to work, r12!
Brilliant tactic.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | September 21, 2020 5:49 AM
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God, you can tell that this is a video made by stage people, the production values were the pits and the whole idea of doing it in black and white was just trying to hit you over the head. Where was that hot dancer from Carousel and most of the original cast of Hamilton? They should have had more dancing and singing and included people from behind the scenes as well as in front of the house,- stage hands, box office, playwrights, composers and lyricists. This just seems like an epic fail, badly executed and poorly timed by a few months.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | September 21, 2020 5:59 AM
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America has become a combination of a elementary school playground with incessantly whinging brats and Maoist re-education camp.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | September 21, 2020 6:03 AM
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Audra was all wrong for Deena in Dreamgirls.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | September 21, 2020 6:05 AM
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Since when is Vanessa Williams considered a star of Broadway? And I’m saying that having seen her as the witch in Woods. Tonya Pinkins or Anika Noni Rose or even Jennifer Holiday seem like more foundational actresses to form the organization?
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | September 21, 2020 6:29 AM
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She’s the only person who has more Tonys than I do, and that’s still not enough?
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | September 21, 2020 7:13 AM
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If Tamara Tunie married Rooney Mara in a Lesbian wedding, and they decided to take each other's names, they'd be Rooney Tunie and Tamara Mara!
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | September 21, 2020 7:21 AM
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