“The fact that it’s the first time across these four departments is an amazing moment,” said Tony awardwinner Diane Paulus, the director.
Wednesday, December 02, 2015
Upcoming musical Waitress tipped to make history for women on Broadway
“The fact that it’s the first time across these four departments is an amazing moment,” said Tony awardwinner Diane Paulus, the director.
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I think what surprises me most about this article is the fact that this is the first time in history where the main team of a Broadway show is a women. There have been so many articles about the lack women working in the entertainment industry recently that it is really making me think. Sometimes looking at theatre programs I feel that there are more women than men doing theatre but I guess I was looking more at the acting side and not the other side. This new musical is a great opportunity for women but I think that people will really start to look down on it if it doesn’t turn out to be a showstopper. Not every musical has a long life on Broadway and we won’t know if this one will be in that same boat. If it does have a short life will that affect women’s roles in these jobs? Will critics tear down this show because it is all women? If no one even writes that it’s the women’s fault do people still think it?
Great……. What about designers? Aren’t they count as “top creative spots?” They got our precious faculty Suttirat as their costume designer (Hooray) but what about Lighting and Sound?
I appreciate this news, I really do. But I still think I would prefer really the entire creative team to be women if we are planning on creating history. I personally when I saw the news came up I was really excited about this but then when I scroll down to the bottom and saw the rest of the names what was put in the last paragraph on several articles that I read I felt kind of…. Not really a heart broken but like…… maybe a little upset.
Also this has always been an interesting topic for me to read. From where I’m from, we never have problems with the lack of women getting the chance to have their work produced onstage. It’s interesting to compare this with the other article from home that came out last months about the role of women in Thai theatre and think about the difference of it and that none of the women who gave interview has found any issues on gender on their career.
I agree with Attitra. If they were going to really and truly work on this there would have been an all female design team as well. What a shame! This was a choice, so make it fully. I appreciate that it was important to choose women and that they got SOOOO close, but I was definitely bummed when they didn't really go through with it. Everyone knows plenty of female designers and it wouldn't have been that hard to find them and ask them to be on the show. What makes me even more upset is that everyone is talking about this show like it was such a favor that some of the team was women. Like we should treat it like, oh thanks for considering some of us...how kind.
#bummed
It's a little bit embarrassing that such a relatively small feat (A 4 person creative team of all women who developed a show about a woman!) is making such large news. As a friend of mine pointed out, they don't say anything about the assistants etc. on the show, which for all we know could all be men. I just... I'm really happy for the team, Sara Bareilles is awesome, and the show looks like it could be super fun, but I'm just a little.... downtrodden about the fact that this is so unique a situation that it's being celebrated as a Broadway milestone....
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