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I don't see those issues you mentioned at all.

There are other big production numbers in OKLAHOMA! besides the ballet. If they had room to stage "Kansas City" and "The Farmer and the Cowman," they should have had room to do the ballet, even if they had to downsize it a bit. Maybe they just felt they didn't have strong enough dancers for the...

Thanks for clarifying. I do not agree that Juanita Hall talks in "Charlie Chan style dialect" in the movie. The only person who comes close to doing so is Benson Fong as the father, because he is supposed to be the least Americanized of all the characters and the one who is not as fluent in...

I know, but Noel Aguirre wrote that Juanita fall was "wearing yellow face" for the movie, so I wondered if he was referring to actual makeup. No big deal, I'm sure a lot of people object to the casting regardless.

I know she's not Asian. I was asking if you meant that she used makeup to make herself look Asian, or if you just meant that she was doing "yellow face" in the sense that she is a non-Asian playing an Asian, with makeup or not.

Are you saying that Juanita Hall literally wore "yellow face" in terms of her makeup in the film? I'm not sure if that's true. I think she was an African-American whose features and coloring just happened to have a somewhat Asian appearance, which is why her most famous role was Bloody Mary in...

In my opinion, any attempt to incorporate the "Somewhere" dream ballet in the new WSS would not have worked at all, given the more gritty reality of the new version and also the sensibilities of modern audiences. I'm guessing that Spielberg et al. never even considered it, or if they did, I...