Minnesota Dinner Theater Cancels “Cinderella” For Having Too White A Cast – IOTW Report

Minnesota Dinner Theater Cancels “Cinderella” For Having Too White A Cast

Washington Examiner

A planned production of Cinderella has been canceled over concerns that the cast was too white.

“It was 98% white,” artistic director Michael Brindisi said of the cast. “That doesn’t work with what we’re saying we’re going to do.”

Chanhassen Dinner Theatres in Minnesota has now decided to scrap the project altogether and will instead turn to producing Footloose in 2022.

“After 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 & Hammerstein’s Cinderella,” the company said in a statement. “Our 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.” More

29 Comments on Minnesota Dinner Theater Cancels “Cinderella” For Having Too White A Cast

  1. Looking forward to the production of ‘Big Booty Black Ass Dindurella and her Fugly Sistahs’

    Honestly. If you’re that much of a cowering snowflake just get out of the business. You won’t be missed.
    Get lost pussy boy.

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  2. Call me a “racist” and a “White supremacist” enough times and I might just turn into one!

    Ya think that’s what they’re trying to do???
    (I do)

    Anything to divide and destroy America!

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  3. Dat honk-ass beeyotch Cinderella? Shiet! I gots hot sauce ri-chere. Ain’t even duh punkin be black, an shiet! Come on, man!

    Where duh white womens at?

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  4. Of course, if you tried to do a production of an African fairy tale, it’d be out of the question to try and shoe-horn in any caucasian or asian actors for the sake of diversity.

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  5. @Erik
    Black Hawk Down – My absolute favorite movie.

    Hoot: “I’m Better On My Own.”

    My personal philosophy. I like to work alone because people just slow me the fuck down.

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  6. Last I checked, save for the imported Somali’s, MN is 98% white!

    And I’m sure “dinner theater” is hardly a guilty pleasure of the Somali’s. 🙄

    Toilet paper… maybe… but it’s white, too (when new 😳 ).

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  7. It’s Cinderella. Not Cinderella Fitzgerald.

    WTF. Just do what they did with Hamilton and culturally appropriate the white man’s story like it’s yours. Duh.

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