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firecr0tch:

i’ve been seeing a lot of posts about Rooney Mara as Tiger Lily and that’s a really terrible thing, so i’d like to bring attention to NBC’s Peter Pan Live, which seems like a really awesome thing and airs December 4th

NBC actually actively sought out Native American actresses to play Tiger Lily and cast Alanna Saunders of Cherokee descent for the role, which is a lot better than what Pan is doing with casting Rooney Mara

and it looks like just a really enjoyable production?? i mean, it’s a musical that went with the stage tradition of casting a woman as Peter Pan that also stars Christopher Walken as Captain Hook (Christopher Walken?? in a musical???? as a flamboyant pirate??????) and an actual Native American girl playing Tiger Lily

please give this the ratings it deserves, please watch this production, it looks to be so much better than Pan could ever hope to be

Watch this instead of Pan.

Let’s all watch this

Also:

“Ugg-a-Wugg,” a number for Peter Pan and Tiger Lily, featured lines like “the brave noble red skin” and a chorus of made-up, “Native American”-sounding phrases like “gugg-a-bluck.” The song is now now called “True Blood Brothers,” a lyric in the original version.
“Amanda has consulted with our Native American consultant [Jerod Tate], just in terms of replacing ‘Ugg-a-Wugg’ with something more traditionally Native American—which has been approved by them and the rights holders. Now and forever, this will hopefully be the version [in the show],” Meron said.

So, in case you were wondering about that part.

yooooo my dads orchestrating this production and they finished that song a while ago but they literally overhauled the entire thing

they confirmed everything from the words to the drum beat and they are putting so much work into making it not racist so i can give you a first hand confirmation from a source this is super legit