^This. @techmom99 I grew up near Ithaca, and have already been called a “feminazi” during a Facebook debate over this casting issue-I ask you: Have you ever watched a film version of The King and I? West Side Story? Roles written about/for POC have been played by white people-for-EVER! That’s why LMM’s brave and brilliant work with In the Heights and Hamilton is so, so very important, and relevant. Theatre is inherently political. Whether we cast, direct, write, perform, or attend-we aim to do/be better. My blonde soprano is gonna be alright: And she KNOWS and supports and celebrates that her friend Isaac Cole Powell in Once on this Island is gonna be MORE than alright. It’s a win/win. If you boycott a show due to prescrriptive casting, you are the one losing out.