{"id":84590,"date":"2021-12-06T00:06:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T08:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=84590"},"modified":"2021-12-06T00:06:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T08:06:45","slug":"annies-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/12\/06\/annies-of-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Annies of Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a review of <em>NBC<\/em>\u2019s <strong><em>Annie Live!<\/em><\/strong>, I read a term I\u2019d never seen before \u2013 \u201cAnnies of color\u201d.&nbsp; Kinda like \u201cSantas of color\u201d \u2013 which also makes me cringe.&nbsp; This review mentioned that the last two versions of <strong><em>Annie<\/em> <\/strong>featured a black girl in the title role.&nbsp; And I\u2019m all for anyone wanting to play Annie \u2013 it\u2019s one of my least favorite musicals, so what do I care?&nbsp; But I have a question \u2013 if it\u2019s OK to cast someone who doesn\u2019t look like the iconic Annie from the comic strip, why, oh why, must Daddy Warbucks have a bald head?&nbsp; Someone must have realized that <strong>Harry Connick Jr<\/strong>. looked like he stumbled out of an <strong><em>SNL<\/em><\/strong> skit!&nbsp; And here\u2019s another thing \u2013 if people feel <em>Othello <\/em>must be played by a black man, and <em>Madama Butterfly <\/em>must be played by an Asian woman, why doesn\u2019t anyone feel that <em>Annie <\/em>must be played by a Caucasian girl?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a review of NBC\u2019s Annie Live!, I read a term I\u2019d never seen before \u2013 \u201cAnnies of color\u201d.&nbsp; Kinda like \u201cSantas of color\u201d \u2013 which also makes me cringe.&nbsp; This review mentioned that the last two versions of Annie featured a black girl in the title role.&nbsp; And I\u2019m all for anyone wanting to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84602,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84590\/revisions\/84602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}