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Ms Mojo's Top 20 Hardest Female Musical Roles



20. Angelica Schuyler, Hamilton
15. Velma Kelly, Chicago
10. Caroline Thibodeaux, Caroline, or Change
5. Elphaba, Wicked
1.Mama Rose, Gyspy

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ONTD, what are your favorite female musical roles?
Tags: broadway / theatre
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champagnexdream

June 4 2020, 22:09:42 UTC 1 week ago

Damn, that's a bummer. I always thought of it as a commentary on how dumbass white people see people from Africa and the black characters in the show making fun of that, proving our whiteness and white-populated religions are what's actually ridiculous. :[

elderpricely

June 5 2020, 01:10:17 UTC 1 week ago

Yeah, I definitely 'read' it that way as well. But the more I think about it and hear from Black people, and given the fact that it's written by all white men for an almost all-white audience ... it's harder to see it as a real callout of American/white views of Africa. If it were it probably wouldn't be so easy for us to laugh at? And I do think it's paying lip service to the idea that that presentation of Africa is absurd, but in reality the laughs are at the stereotype playing out, not at people who believe the stereotype — if that makes sense.

champagnexdream

June 5 2020, 01:12:50 UTC 1 week ago

It absolutely makes sense and even if it didn’t to me, I’m white - if black people are saying it’s offensive then it is. Tbh Trey Parker and Matt Stone are and always have been problematic af anyway soooo. I get what you’re saying.