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[ SECRET POST #3371 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3371 ⌋

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In the last 32 years there has been no broadway show with an all-female creative team.

Waitress is the first one in THIRTY TWO FUCKING YEARS. Seriously, why is it that the 80's had musicals with better gender equality than every decade since?

Is it really that big of a deal? It's not like there's some requirement that women can't be considered successful in the industry unless they've been involved in female-only teams.

I'm not saying that it wouldn't be cool to have musicals with all-female creative teams but how would having one mean that there's gender equality? Wouldn't literal gender equality mean having the same amount of men and women on creative teams?

Presumably having musicals with an all-female creative team would boost gender equality because there are so many with an all-male creative team.

A theatrical creative team is a lot of people, at least as I generally understand it: authors of book/music/lyrics, direction, choreography, designers of costumes/sets/lighting/sound, and maybe orchestrations. It's rather unusual to see a team of 10+ people all one gender.

On a smaller level, there have been a few shows with an all-female authorial team (book/music/lyrics). Fun Home last year is a major one, and The Secret Garden (1991). Some other notable shows with such teams include The Thorn Birds (2009), Ipi-Tombi (1974), 9 to 5 (2009) [although it's adapting the screenplay by librettist Patricia Resnick co-wrote with Colin Higgins], Dear Edwina (2002) and June B. Jones (2004), Runaways (1978), Bad Girls (2006), A Tale of Two Cities (the 2008 one by Jill Santoriello), Gone with the Wind (2008), Little House on the Prairie (2008).

But are you saying the achievements of Kay Swift, Lynn Ahrens, Mary Rodgers, Jeanine Tesori, Betty Comden, Lucy Simon, Elisabeth Hauptmann, Elizabeth Swados and HUNDREDS of other fantastic women of the theatre are moot just because most of their output came in collaboration with men? Because that's just silly.

Edited 2016-03-28 02:35 (UTC)

so when was the last sausage fest on broadway?

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