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I call Mareshia Rucker to ask when she heard about the decision and how she initially reacted. "Um...hold on just a second," she says before moving into a quieter part of her house. "Can you repeat that please?" I do. "No...actually...I...didn't...know that." Rucker listens as I explain the school's brief message: Faculty, students, and parents will form a prom committee responsible for planning and fundraising at the beginning of next school year. Her initial excitement turns to leery skepticism. "I know the county that I live in very well," she says. "Even when they're forced to do certain things, people will still have their own preconceived notions."
Rucker listens as I explain the school's brief message: Faculty, students, and parents will form a prom committee responsible for planning and fundraising at the beginning of next school year. Her initial excitement turns to leery skepticism. "I know the county that I live in very well," she says. "Even when they're forced to do certain things, people will still have their own preconceived notions."
Broadway is a business. Like any business, it wants to hire the best possible people for every role. So the Broadway production holds auditions in which some of the world’s best actors, singers and dancers compete to land a part in the show. Casting doesn’t work like that at the community theater. Broadway starts with a list of roles to be filled, then selects only the very best people it can find to fill them. Community theater starts with the community — with everybody — and then tries to figure out how best to employ them, how best to manage the assembled ensemble so that everyone is able to participate and to contribute to the common goal.
The pattern is unmistakable. Said golfer Fuzzy Zoeller, after joking that Woods shouldn't order fried chicken for the Masters champions' dinner: The comments were "misconstrued." Said comedian Michael Richards, after responding to a black heckler with a lynching reference and the N-word: "I'm not a racist." Said actor Mel Gibson, after claiming that Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world: "I'm not a bigot."