1. What are the questions or comments you have about the material for this week? (please name 2)
2.In her review of the 2016 reboot and its closure after a three-month run, Kristen Moriah notes, “In hindsight, I think that perhaps the production failed because we have not come so far, because there is less distance between the desires of 1920s audiences and contemporary theatergoers than we would like to imagine. A night in a Broadway playhouse still signals a willingness to be entertained by a certain set of cultural tropes, to be entertained but not riled too much.” On what evidence does Moriah stake this claim in her article? If she is right, what are the implications of this dynamic for racial equity on the commercial stage in the US?