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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Theater Small, Symbolic Victory for Actors with Disabilities

Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 3:19 PM

Back in October, producers from the Circle in the Square Theater drew some unwanted attention from disability advocacy groups when they cast a non-blind actor, Abigail Breslin, as Helen Keller in an upcoming Broadway revival of The Miracle Worker. Well, now all is more or less right in the world: yesterday the Times interviewed little Kyra Siegel, the legally blind 10-year-old who will be Breslin's understudy for the show.

Problem solved: Producers get good press, audiences get their star, groups representing actors with disabilities get their token disabled actor, and a young actor from Oregon gets the Broadway understudy gig of a lifetime—even though probably nobody will actually see her perform it. (Playgoer)

Tags: nyc theater, blind actors, actors with disabilities, The Miracle Worker, Broadway, The Circle in the Square Theater, casting, understudy, Abigail Breslin

        
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Theater Small, Symbolic Victory for Actors with Disabilities

Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 3:19 PM

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