{"id":317547,"date":"2021-03-26T10:30:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T14:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=317547"},"modified":"2021-03-26T10:30:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T14:30:55","slug":"minnesota-theater-cancels-cinderella-production-citing-too-many-white-cast-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/minnesota-theater-cancels-cinderella-production-citing-too-many-white-cast-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Theater Cancels \u2018Cinderella\u2019 Production Citing Too Many White Cast Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fminnesota-theater-cancels-cinderella-production-citing-too-many-white-cast-members%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=317547&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3700.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>A Minnesota suburban theater canceled its production of \u201cCinderella,\u201d citing that the cast had too many white actors.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Chanhassen Dinner Theatres <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/chanhassendt.com\/dei\/\"><span>announced<\/span><\/a><span> on its website that the production of \u201cCinderella\u201d was not aligned with its current diversity, equity, and inclusion goals. Instead of recasting the production to include more people of color, the theater opted to nix the production entirely.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAfter careful consideration and with our ongoing commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Chanhassen Dinner Theatres has made the decision to cancel our upcoming production of Rodgers &amp; Hammerstein\u2019s <\/span><i><span>Cinderella,<\/span><\/i><span>\u201d the theater <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/chanhassendt.com\/dei\/\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span> <span>\u201cOur hope in beginning the production process again with a new title will allow us to put into practice an intentional process based on the work we have been doing towards equity and inclusivity.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the same statement, the theater announced that it will invite and pay for a [black, indigenous, or person of color] to analyze the makeup of the cast and how to make the show adequately \u201canti-racist.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe believe this new process will allow us to tell the story in a rich way and allow us to live out our commitment to identity-conscious casting and becoming a more intentionally anti-racist theater,\u201d the statement reads.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The theater\u2019s Artistic Director Michael Brindisi told <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2021\/03\/22\/in-a-new-push-for-diversity-chanhasssen-dinner-theatres-scraps-plans-to-stage-cinderella\/\"><span>Twin Cities Pioneer Press<\/span><\/a><span> that the reason the play was being cut was that the cast was too white.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt was 98 percent white,\u201d Brindisi said of the Cinderella cast. \u201cThat doesn\u2019t work with what we\u2019re saying we\u2019re going to do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Following articles from local news outlets, the theater released an updated statement claiming that it was not in the game of \u201ccanceling\u201d Cinderella. The theater claims that it plans to produce and perform \u201cCinderella\u201d in the future.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe did not cancel Cinderella because of content. We are looking forward to bringing it to our stage in the future,\u201d the update <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/chanhassendt.com\/dei\/\"><span>reads<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cBut we as a company decided our original casting didn\u2019t go far enough in our commitment, and instead of waiting another full year to implement these important changes, we chose now.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/03\/25\/minnesota-theater-cancels-cinderella-play-for-cast-being-too-white\/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_medium=SocialFlow\"><span>New York Post<\/span><\/a><span>, the theater resides in the Minneapolis suburb of Chanhassen which is 92 percent white, three percent Hispanic, and one percent black.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Following the death of George Floyd in the spring of 2020 and the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, organizations across the nation have committed themselves to \u201cDEI\u201d or \u201cdiversity, equity, and inclusion\u201d efforts.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Many of the \u201cDEI\u201d efforts include harsh criticisms of \u201cwhiteness\u201d and encourage white people to become \u201canti-racist.\u201d There have also been lists created to ascribe characteristics of whiteness and institutions that are \u201ctoo white.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cDEI\u201d has also plagued college campuses and universities. At an Ohio law school, two deans criticized the student body for being \u201cexcessively\u201d white after a study declared that the law school was the 144th most white school in the nation.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Daily Wire <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ohio-law-school-deans-criticized-students-for-being-excessively-white\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span>:&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"6\">\n<p><i><span>Deans Jessica Berg and Michael Scharf at Case Western Reserve University said they were upset that the school was considered in the top 200 \u201cwhitest law schools in America in 2021.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Minnesota suburban theater canceled its production of \u201cCinderella,\u201d citing that the cast had too many white actors.\u00a0Chanhassen Dinner Theatres announced on its website that the production of \u201cCinderella\u201d was &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311192,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3700.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Minnesota Theater Cancels \u2018Cinderella\u2019 Production Citing Too Many White Cast Members","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3700.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Minnesota Theater Cancels \u2018Cinderella\u2019 Production Citing Too Many White Cast Members","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}