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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 15, 2018 16:37:04 GMT
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Post by oxfordsimon on Aug 15, 2018 16:40:12 GMT
I am not sure I believe the story - as plenty of non-black singers have sung that particular number in a professional setting.
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Post by indis on Aug 15, 2018 16:40:59 GMT
the most stupid thing i have ever heard - she only wanted to sing it on a concert, not auditioning for the role on stage 8 shows a week, ridiculous!
If it is now not even allowed to sing a song from a show where it sings a black person, then vice versa no black or asian person should
sing songs of white people - which is equally stupid because it ist JUST ONE DAMN CONCERT - nobody is taking roles away from anyone
just because singing a damn song
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2018 16:41:24 GMT
That can't be right surely? For the love of Sierra Boggess, didn't they let Sheridan Smith bark her way through that very same song on her album recently?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2018 16:45:08 GMT
Yeah I don't buy that as the reasoning. Every man and his dog has screeched through that song...
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 15, 2018 16:53:14 GMT
I wonder if Anita Dobson was in the same room when Brian May “erupted”.
And if she noticed.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 15, 2018 16:55:19 GMT
That can't be right surely? For the love of Sierra Boggess, didn't they let Sheridan Smith bark her way through that very same song on her album recently? Sheridan’s use of the song was a bone (woof) of contention on here if I remember correctly. |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Aug 15, 2018 16:56:18 GMT
I shall start campaigning to prevent Kerry Ellis from singing Defying Gravity - because she isn't green. And she can't sing any Queen songs because she isn't Freddie Mercury.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2018 17:08:50 GMT
Well boo to you 'Dreamgirls'. Suck it.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 15, 2018 17:10:45 GMT
She suits that asymmetric bob wig doesn’t she?
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 15, 2018 17:13:03 GMT
Before we you start this is not a Jane thread.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2018 17:15:20 GMT
I smell a rat here. As others have mentioned Sheridan Smith sang it on her TV show - which was presumably broadcast to millions. Bet it has more to do with copyright/license - MONEY - than with race.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2018 19:44:11 GMT
I don't know, the Albert Hall got their fingers badly burned by the Sierra Boggess fiasco, and that was a concert too. These days it is very common for managers in any line of work to just but out blanket bans so as not to offend anyone
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2018 20:03:45 GMT
I wouldn't take reporting from the Mail at face value. What the article says it that it comes from the 'musical's owners', presumably that means that it's a request from the rights holders not the venue or the promoters.
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Post by princeton on Aug 15, 2018 20:34:11 GMT
Isn't this the concert which was criticised because they originally announced an all-white cast (billed as The Best of the West End) singing songs from shows including Dreamgirls and The Lion King Report from The Stage 25 JuneAnd got some traction on Twitter As they don't seem to have listed any additional cast members since then - presumably the promoters are trying to avoid further criticism by not having white actors sing songs from musicals which, in the context of a show, would be performed by BAME actors. And definitely down to the promoter not the venue. |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Aug 16, 2018 12:34:26 GMT
There are some songs where the ethnicity of the performer is important. I cannot envisage a white singer tackling Ol' Man River these days for instance.
But I am Telling You and Can You Feel the Love Tonight really don't fall into that category.
There are some battles worth fighting. Getting hot under the collar over concert song choices really isn't one of them.
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