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NAACP encourganing blacks to boycott high school play

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    #1 Salty, Feb 26, 2013
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    “We approached the musical with a 1970s flavor,” said Drew Deapo, the musical's technical director at J-E high school.

    This would be reason enough to boycott.:laugh:
     
    #2 Arbo, Feb 26, 2013
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    Video of the upset stage mother addressing the school board [skip to 1:47:30]. Later on a former student defends the play's directress as being very committed to 'diversity':

    http://www.nscsd.org/district.cfm?s...WREcgCISg-UQ&contentID=0vIEcBOBFEqShqw3Hj7LAQ



    Turns out the directress cast a male student in one of the female featured roles.

    Here he is in costume as Evillene, the role played by Mabel King (Raj and Dee's Mama on What's Happening!) on Broadway:

    https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/426442_10200778386443520_1225929202_n.jpg
     
    #3 Jerome, Mar 25, 2013
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