Broadway opening was met with about 100 demonstrators, frustrated with a perceived mishandling of a #MeToo controversy
The opening night of Belgian auteur Ivo van Hove’s gritty reimagining of West Side Story on Broadway was always going to be a buzzy affair. The revamp’s premiere had all the trappings of a major Broadway debut – red carpet, glamorous arrivals, box office records – and also a crowd shouting for a lead actor’s dismissal.
“Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Ramasar has got to go!” a group of about 100 people, according to police, chanted outside the Broadway Theatre. “Don’t be complicit!” The crowd, largely though not exclusively women of high school and college age, decried the producers’ decision to cast Amar Ramasar as Bernardo, a high-profile supporting role in the show. Ramasar’s involvement in a photo-sharing scandal at the New York City Ballet, which temporarily cost him his job, has produced a stalemate between the show’s producers and protesters over accountability, punishment and rehabilitation in the era of #MeToo.
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from MetNews https://metnews.pw/we-cant-stand-by-this-any-more-inside-the-west-side-story-premiere-protest/
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