Where are the black audiences?
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http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/onstage/42856322.html?elr=KA...
"From "The Color Purple" at the Ordway to a revival of "A Raisin in the Sun" at the Guthrie Theater, stories with African-Americans at the center are taking the stage all over the Twin Cities.But if the stars of "Raisin," "Purple" and Carlyle Brown's "Pure Confidence" could see into the darkened playhouses, they might raise a question: Where is the black audience?
"That's what I've been asking,"' said Reatha Clark King, a retired General Mills executive and one-time president of Metro State University who has been attending shows at theaters such as Penumbra and the Guthrie for decades.
"I suppose the answer is complicated, but we would like to see more people show up."
The answer is complicated. Interviews with theater patrons, artists and leaders point to a battery of reasons why blacks have been staying away from shows that should draw them, including marketing opportunities missed, a perceived lack of welcome and the economy.
All of these things have conspired to keep African-Americans away from the unprecedented surge of black writing, acting and directing talent that has been showcased at venues large and small in recent months."
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iamgaylord
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I can only speak for myself at this time. I have lost trust that product that says it's aimed at someone like me I believe it's only marketing. Good work is good work. If you have a show with black people in it doing a good job and being treated well I will find it. It you say this is a black show I think, why? what's wrong with it?
- 10 months ago
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iamgaylord
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unclecharlie
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Plays are probably considered too "white". As many conservative Black authors seem to say, there is a general distrust among Black Americans for anything that smacks of intellectualism. That is why intellects and educated men like John McWhorter, Shelby Steele, Thomas Sowell, Larry Elder, yes, Clarence Thomas and others are treated as "traitors" and disowned by the Black community because they dare stray from the plantation (as Ken Hamblin says....) www.NBRA.info
- 10 months ago
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unclecharlie
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unclecharlie:
You pulled that right out of your behind. Your logic is ridiculous. First of all none of those people you speak about have a black constituency and most black people have never heard of them. If they are looking for a black constituency and failed then thats on them. Perhaps it is because they do not go to black organizations and speak. They get paid much more writing books and telling a certain type of white person what they want the hear about black people. In reality they hustle white conservatives.
- 10 months ago
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