In the performing arts, the show must go on — unless of course those in charge can’t find enough persons of a certain pigmentation.

From Maine’s Bangor Daily News:

After being told that it cannot make changes to the licensed script for a musical it plans to stage next week, The Grand theater in Ellsworth is making a last-ditch effort to add Black actors to the cast.

If it cannot find Black actors to play minor roles of two slaves in the musical, it will have to cancel the production, the opening of which has been delayed for a week, a theater official said.

It isn’t easy to find blacks in rural Maine, where the American population has not yet been displaced by welfare colonists from the Third World — although that process is well underway in Lewiston.

I’ve got an idea. Have white actors in blackface play the bit parts. Maybe Jimmy Kimmel or Jimmy Fallon would like to visit Maine and volunteer. No?

On a tip from Franco.