File spoon-archives/puptcrit.archive/puptcrit_1999/puptcrit.9908, message 158


Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 01:04:10 -0400
From: A&B Periale <perryalley-AT-rscs.net>
Subject: Re: PUPT: Howdy Doody


> I recently viewed Mary Martin's Peter Pan on video and was painfully
> aware of some of the less than perfect flying....as well as the obvious
> wires.   

I, myself, was in LOVE with Tigerlily. Seeing it as an adult, I simply
CRINGED at lines like "ugga-wugga-meatball."  I mean, I can understand
that in Barrie's day, native Americans were a people distant and exotic
enough to be portrayed as some fairlyland phenomenon, but how can we do
the show today in Amerika without being somehow senstive to ethnic
stereotypes?

Andrew

PS- Tigerlily is still hot.


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