There’s even been the bragging #BroadwaySoDiverse to rival #OscarsSoWhite.īut next season isn’t shaping up to be as diverse as this one. This season, Byrd is watching as Broadway is cheered for its inclusiveness at a time when the film industry has come under heavy criticism for a lack of diversity in the Academy Awards. “We’ve been at this for 10 years and it’s taken from that time to come to where we are today to see that same diversity on Broadway.” “That was a time of great diversity on Broadway,” said Byrd, who produces minority-driven works with Alia Jones-Harvey. Byrd, a veteran Broadway producer behind his season’s “Eclipsed.” He recalls a diverse Broadway when he produced an all-black revival of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” in 2008.īack then, Morgan Freeman was starring in “The Country Girl,” Laurence Fishburne was in “Thurgood” and such shows as “Passing Strange,” “In the Heights” and the original “The Color Purple” were playing.
This ebb and flow is nothing new to Stephen C. But the next season the number fell to 9 percent. That season, black actors represented 21 percent of all roles. James and Kyle Scatliffe in “Les Miserables,” and Norm Lewis becoming the first black Phantom on Broadway in “The Phantom of the Opera.” There were also African-Americans in nontraditional roles, like James Monroe Iglehart as the Genie in “Aladdin,” Nikki M. The 2013-14 season was rich with roles for African-Americans, including “A Raisin in the Sun” starring Denzel Washington, Audra McDonald channeling Billie Holiday in “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill” and the dance show “After Midnight.” The numbers suggest improvements one year, then a drop off the next.
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