By Charisa Francis

IS THE GENRE OF MUSICALS PRO RACISM AND DISCRIMINATION IN THE LEAD ROLES

TO ACTORS OF COLOUR?

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DREAMGIRLS AWARDS LISTTOTAL 65 WINS AND 77 NOMINATIONS

Including:

Academy Awards, USA 2007 – 6 nominations, 2 wins

Golden Globes, USA 2007 – 2 nominations, 3 wins

BAFTA Awards 2007 – 1 nomination, 1 win

Screen Actors Guild Awards 2007 – 1 nomination, 2 wins

AFI Awards, USA 2007 – 1 win

AAFCA 2006 – 4 wins

Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2006 – 1 nomination, 1 win

American Cinema Editors, USA 2007 – 1 win

Art Directors Guild 2007 – 1 nomination

Austin Film Critics Association 2007 – 1 win

BET Awards 2007 – 2 nominations, 1 win

Black Reel Awards 2007 – 5 nominations, 6 wins

Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards – 3 nominations, 4 wins

And so on…

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OPENING WEEKEND BOX OFFICE FIGURES- DISNEY PRINCESSES:

• SNOW WHITE- $7,514,749 (USA) (17 July 1987)

• CINDERELLA- $5,165,881 (USA) (20 November 1987)

• Sleeping Beauty- AURORA- $2,548,698 (USA) (21 March 1986)

• The Little Mermaid- ARIEL- $9,814,520 (USA) (16 November 1997)

• Beauty and the Beast- BELLE- $17,754,905 (USA) (15 January 2012)

• Aladdin- JASMINE- $196,664 (USA) (15 November 1992)

• POCAHONTAS - $29,531,619 (USA) (28 July 2012)

• MULAN- $22,745,143 (USA) (21 June 1998)

• The Princess and the Frog- TIANA- $786,190 (USA) (29 November 2009)

• Tangled- RAPUNZEL- $48,767,052 (USA) (28 November 2010)

• Brave- MERIDA- $66,323,594 (USA) (24 June 2012 )

• Frozen – ELSA AND ANNA – $400,738, 009 (USA) (22 November 2013)

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ROGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN’S CINDERELLA (1997)

“ As Disney's Cinderella for the 90's, Brandy is amazingly good. She wanders the streets of her village, singing ''The sweetest sounds I'll ever hear/Are still inside my head,'' with the longing of a dreamy adolescent and the musical control of a Broadway

trouper. ”

- CARYN JAMES

ROGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN'S CINDERELLA CAST LIST:

Brandy Norwood Bernadette Peters

Veanne Cox

Paolo Montalban

Jason Alexander

Whoopi Goldberg

Victor Garber Natalie Desselle Reid Whitney Houston

Adrienne BailonPuerto Rican, Hispanic, Black and European

Kiely WilliamsBlack

Sabrina BryanEuropean

Raven-SymonéBlack

ANNIE (1999) ANNIE (2014)

ANNIE (2014)“This new one, on the other hand, is basically like a horrific

mix of Lionel Bart’s Oliver, My Fair Lady and Pretty Woman. “

“This movie is slathered in slush, immersed in yuckiness and positively laminated in ickiness. It’s supposed to warm your cockles. It might do something entirely different to your gag

reflex.”

- PETER BRADSHAWL

TWITTER CONVERSATION ABOUT ANNIE (2014)

• https://youtu.be/TMeWaOZIzyw?t=35s

“"Polly" is the worst kind of fairy tale…”

“…two hours of ooze, an ambitious but inferior musical adaptation of "Pollyanna," a 1960 theatrical film starring a

young Hayley Mills…”

- HOWARD ROSENBERG

• https://youtu.be/3r1ssg1LIt4?t=2m30s

“Terrible”

“This Broadway mainstay is horrifying -- nightmare-inducing, really. Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, and Nipsey Russell make for a triple threat of overacting and bad costumes in

this Harlem-set bastardization of The Wizard of Oz.”

- CHRISTOPHER NULL

THE JAZZ SINGER (1927)

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