The pressure is on American theater to show its true colors.
The recent high drama surrounding the casting - and cancellation- of a Broadway production of "Miss Saigon" has focused a klieg lighton "color-blind casting" and prompted an intensely emotional debateover the nature of reverse discrimination.
On Tuesday, the Actors Equity Association - the unionrepresenting the majority of stage actors in Chicago and many othermarkets - denied permission for English actor Jonathan Pryce to playa lead role in the production of "Miss Saigon," a Vietnam-era storyof racial prejudice.
Pryce was to have reprised his highly successful performance asthe Eurasian …
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