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| X-san
Mon 5/19/2008 10:06p | ***Why not? What else is she gonna do?***
Wow, and this just takes it up another notch! How very rude.
Butters already said she has an amazing voice, sounds to me like she earned the role just like everyone else.
What a nasty thing to say! |
22
| dlpostcardguy
Mon 5/19/2008 11:11p | Well ChurroMonster, I don't know what your situation is but I hope you are fortunate enough to have two legs to walk on. If you do then be thankful and be a little more compassionate towards others. |
23
| X-san
Mon 5/19/2008 11:14p | Agreed. And it's pretty snooty for someone to bitch about how someones' handicap ruined THEIR enjoyment of some amusement park show! |
24
| WilliamK99
Mon 5/19/2008 11:17p | Agreed. And it's pretty snooty for someone to bitch about how someones' handicap ruined THEIR enjoyment of some amusement park show!<<
You have to appreciate the irony in his comments, a person with no handicap whining because someone with a handicap ruined their personal enjoyment. |
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| X-san
Tue 5/20/2008 12:24a | Yup, quite ironic. That crack about "what else is she supposed to do?" though, took it up a notch to pure vitrol.
Not cool. |
26
| ChurroMonster
Tue 5/20/2008 2:16a | Actually, I was kidding. But the subsequent comments have been as amusing as watching someone in a wheelchair perform a musical. Was I kidding this time? Please someone, read my mind again. |
27
| X-san
Tue 5/20/2008 4:39a | Try smilies next time. :D |
28
| X-san
Tue 5/20/2008 4:41a | **Please someone, read my mind again.**
Well, not so much that as people just taking your comments at face value. I certainly didn't get the joke, that's for sure.
Perhaps because I've heard similar, ridiculous statements on LP all too often about how this or that bit of minutia is utterly RUINING their personal amusement park going experience. ;) |
29
| mawnck
Tue 5/20/2008 8:54a | Churro Monster, I, too, thought you were being a cretin. Are you letting Mike Huckabee write your material?
;-) ;-) ;-)
However ...
>>Obviously if it were a dancing role, and someone in a wheelchair wheeled around attempting to match the choreography, that'd be ridiculous. But I gather the role is not like that?<<
Yep, actually it more or less is. She's part of the ensemble.
Her having that role is all about empowerment and nothing about story. And as I said before, I see nothing wrong with that in this particular show.
Don't call her handicapped. Caller her "working actress."
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30
| danyoung
Tue 5/20/2008 10:30a | I don't condone Churro's rudeness, but the concept deserves some thought. There isn't a single person who has seen this person on stage during the show who hasn't had to take a second to decide if it's a good thing or not. And it's that distraction that I'm concerned about. If they put her on a camel or something to camoflage her condition, I'd be all for it. But that wheelchair on stage is a distraction, if only a small one.
I guess I"m torn on the issue. Yes, it's great that a physically challenged person has found an outlet for her talents. But if I were putting a cast together I think I'd want basic bi-pedal mobility to be a minimum requirement. And as a viewer I am indeed taken out of the magic of the story, if only for a moment.
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