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Volume 13, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 1750-3159
  • E-ISSN: 1750-3167

Abstract

This article places the casting practices in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s in a trajectory of casting practices utilized by Joseph Papp at the New York Shakespeare Festival, and highlights the difficulty of pinpointing which particular casting practice is utilized in . It also places the casting concept in conversation with August Wilson’s famous arguments about colour-blind casting, and considers how these conversations have changed. It considers the criticisms that have arisen in response to the casting of . Finally, the article examines the City Center’s Encores! production of in 2016, which was produced to be ‘in the style of ’ but argues that the production of was not particularly successful at recreating the -style casting. In the end, the article questions if there is such a thing as a successful production of with -style casting.

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