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Diversity-In-Casting Arguments Crop Up Again, This Time Over A Concert Performance

THEATRE Posted: July 28, 2016 9:00 am

The project in question is the in-progress stage adaptation of the 1998 Dreamworks animated feature The Prince of Egypt, about the life of Moses. The script and score will get their first public reading in a free outdoor performance next month on Long Island, and a social media fracas broke out over the false impression that the cast for the reading is all-white. (In fact, five out of the 15 Equity performers currently engaged are nonwhite.)

THEATRE Published: 07.27.16

Read the story in New York Times Published: 07.27.16

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