Color Blind Casting Cinderella

EXCLUSIVE: Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1997 Cinderella Makes a Strong Case for Diverse-Not Color Blind-Casting Cinderella: The Reunion premieres Tuesday, Aug. 23 at 8p.m.ET. Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (1997) provides its audience with the classic tale of Cinderella, the beloved music of the titular duo, and a color-blind world where Prince Charming is Asian, the King and Queen are an interracial couple, and Cinderella is a dark-skinned, Black woman.

Yet, does this film's choice of color-blind casting have unintentional ramifications? My Cinderella. By the time the film was greenlit by Disney for ABC, Houston felt that she had outgrown the title role, which she offered to Brandy instead. The decision to use a color-blind casting approach originated among the producers to reflect how society had evolved by the 1990s, with Brandy becoming the first black actress to portray Cinderella on screen.

Color Blind Casting: Black Actors Who Played White Characters

1997's 'Cinderella' is still remember so fondly today. Whitney Houston produced and starred along with Brandy Norwood. The diversity was on purpose, too.

A discussion of the use of colorblind casting in Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1997 production of Cinderella by Stephanie Brownell and Emma Alexander. This afternoon, as part of our Black History Month film festival, we showed 1997's Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella. The color-blind casting process led to a diverse finished product that our patrons really responded to.

EXCLUSIVE: The Cast of 1997's 'Cinderella' Reflect on Diverse Casting ...

Librarian Krishna Grady introduced the film, and talked about the casting director and how producers set out to find the best person for each role, no matter their skin. Colorblind casting has worked very well in some instances. The 1997 adaptation of Rodger's and Hammerstein's Cinderella offered a diverse, colorful cast that was not centered around the fact that many of them were people of color.

When Grey's Anatomy was produced, none of the characters were written to be of a particular race, and they were also not cast as such. This lead to a fairly. To Hollywood, color-blind casting (and its many blind casting variants that don't consider ethnicity, body type, sex, and/or gender), seems like the solution the industry has been searching for to address the lack of diversity the industry has faced throughout its entire existence.

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In the last several years, the conversation of color. The producers wanted to use a "color-blind casting" approach, resulting in a black Cinderella (Brandy) and Fairy Godmother (Houston) as well as a Filipino prince (Paolo Montalban) with a black mother (Whoopi Goldberg) and a white father (Victor Garber). Cinderella's stepfamily also has black and white members.

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