On May 24th, Broadway’s Best Shows and RACE announced a contest celebrating the work of David Mamet. The “Go Mamet Yourself” Contest invited RACE and David Mamet fans to submit videos of themselves answering the question:
There were over 30 submissions sent in to win one of nearly a dozen prizes. Contestants participated both outside the doors of the Barrymore Theatre, where RACE is currently playing, as well as by submitting videos from home to the contest. Will Cantler, a casting director at Telsey + Company (which did casting for RACE) selected the winners of the competition.
The following individuals have been awarded prizes for their participation:
Grand Prize Winner (1):
PRIZE – A pair of tickets to see RACE (starring Eddie Izzard, Dennis Haysbert, Afton C. Williamson, and Richard Thomas) on Broadway JULY 22nd, 2010 and have an exclusive photo op. with the new cast backstage.
-A 1-Night Stay at the HILTON Times Square on July 22nd, 2010.
-Dinner for Two at the Glass House Tavern
-Race Merchandise
-A copy of David Mamet’s newest play, RACE, once available
On May 24th, Broadway’s Best Shows and RACE announced a contest celebrating the work of David Mamet. The “Go Mamet Yourself” Contest invited RACE and David Mamet fans to submit videos of themselves answering the question:
There were over 30 submissions sent in to win one of nearly a dozen prizes. Contestants participated both outside the doors of the Barrymore Theatre, where RACE is currently playing, as well as by submitting videos from home to the contest. Will Cantler, a casting director at Telsey + Company (which did casting for RACE) selected the winners of the competition.
The following individuals have been awarded prizes for their participation:
Finalists (5):
PRIZE – A pair of tickets to see RACE on Broadway with the new cast
-A copy of David Mamet’s newest play, RACE, once available
On May 24th, Broadway’s Best Shows and RACE announced a contest celebrating the work of David Mamet. The “Go Mamet Yourself” Contest invited RACE and David Mamet fans to submit videos of themselves answering the question:
There were over 30 submissions sent in to win one of nearly a dozen prizes. Contestants participated both outside the doors of the Barrymore Theatre, where RACE is currently playing, as well as by submitting videos from home to the contest. Will Cantler, a casting director at Telsey + Company (which did casting for RACE) selected the winners of the competition.
The following individuals have been awarded prizes for their participation:
Honorable Mentions (5):
PRIZE – A copy of “Theatre,” the new book by David Mamet
Lauren K’s Video
Mike Q’s Video
Simcha’s Video
Taleea C & Friend’s Video
(look for her memorable quote “…that n****r b***h…”)
AP LIVE sat down with Eddie Izzard to talk “RACE“. Izzard, a veteran of the stage and screen, is a new addition to the Broadway cast. Check out the interview below to hear Eddie’s thoughts on David Mamet’s new compelling legal drama, “RACE“.
On May 24th, Broadway’s Best Shows and RACE announced a contest celebrating the work of David Mamet. The “Go Mamet Yourself” Contest invited RACE and David Mamet fans to submit videos of themselves answering the question:
By Friday, June 25th, the deadline to submit a video, there were over 30 submissions sent in to win one of nearly a dozen prizes. Contestants participated both outside the doors of the Barrymore Theatre, where RACE is currently playing, as well as by submitting videos from home to the contest.
Submitted videos will be in competition for the following prizes:
Honorable Mentions (5) receive:
- A copy of “Theatre,” the new book by David Mamet
Finalists (5) receive:
- A pair of ticket to see RACE on Broadway with the new cast
-A copy of David Mamet’s newest play,RACE, once available.
Grand Prize Winner (1) receives:
- A pair of tickets to see RACE (starring Eddie Izzard, Dennis Haysbert, Afton C. Williamson, and Richard Thomas) on Broadway JULY 22nd, 2010 and have an exclusive photo op. with the new cast backstage.
A 1-Night Stay at the HILTON Times Square on July 22nd, 2010.
Dinner for Two at the Glass House Tavern Race Merchandise
A copy of David Mamet’s newest play, RACE, once available
Submissions will be reviewed by a Broadway casting director and will be announced at Broadway’s Best Shows by July 5th, 2010.
After taking the stage in November, RACE has garnered critical acclaim and earned a nine week extension with a new cast for the summer with a star-studded cast featuring Eddie Izzard, Dennis Haysbert, Afton C. Williamson and Richard Thomas.
The Cast of RACE join the Red Sequined Dresses outside the Broadhurst Theatre.
To cast decided to take a quick break outside the Broadhurst Theatre yesterday on 49th Street to take in the beautiful weather and get a few photos in with promoters for the show, a team of women wearing the show’s iconic image, red sequin dresses. While plenty of street passerbys snapped photos to share with friends, BBS took some photos to once again share the event with those who couldn’t make it to Times Square yesterday. Enjoy!
RACE, the critically acclaimed new play written and directed by DAVID MAMET, currently stars JAMES SPADER, DAVID ALAN GRIER, KERRY WASHINGTON and RICHARD THOMASthrough June 13th, 2010 (David Alan Grier and Kerry Washington) and June 20th, 2010 (for James Spader). Richard Thomas will continue with the show through its extension through until August 21st, 2010.
RACE is Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet’s (Glengarry Glen Ross, The Untouchables, Speed-the-Plow) most explosive four-letter word yet and proves that nothing is as simple as black-and white. Three-time Emmy® Award winner James Spader (“Boston Legal”), David Alan Grier (“In Living Color”), Kerry Washington (Ray) and Emmy® Award winner Richard Thomas (Democracy) star in this incendiary story about the perceptions and realities that color our world – and the subtle shades between being a victim and being victimized.
Tickets for RACE may be purchased by visiting Telecharge.com or calling (212) 239-6200. RACE is making its world premiere at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre (located at 243 West 47th St.).
Photos by Andy S. Drachenberg/Broadway’s Best Shows.
In a crunch for time and still want to participate? Well, BBS thought we’d help do some of the heavy lifting for you, and give you a few of our favorite David Mamet quotes to use for the contest! Enjoy!
…from Glengarry Glen Ross:
“I’m going to have your job, shithead. I’m going downtown and talk to Mitch and Murray, and I’m going to Lemkin. I don’t care whose nephew you are, who you know, whose ____ you’re sucking on. You’re going out, I swear to you, you’re going…”
“I say this is how we must act. I do those things which seem correct to me today. I trust myself. And if security concerns me, I do that which today I think will make me secure. And every day i do that, when that day arrives that I need a reserve, (a) odds are that I have it, and (b) the true reserve that I have is the strenght that I have of acting each day without fear. According to the dictates of my mind.”
“Anyon in this office lives on their wits…What you’re hired for is to help us–does that seem clear to you? To help us. Not to ____us up…to help men who are going out there to try and earn a living. You fairy. You company man…I’ll tell you something else. I hope you knocked the joint off, I can tell our friend here something might help him catch you. You want to learn the first rule you’d know if you ever spent a day in your life…you never open your mouth till you know what the shot is. You ___ing child…”
…from Speed-the-Plow:
“All these “little” people out there, that we see. Y’unnerstand? Fellow asks, “what are they there for?” Well, Charl, We Don’t Know. But we think, you give the thing to your boy, gives it to my boy, these people get to eat, they don’t have to go beg, and get in everybody’s face the airport the whole time. This morning the phone won’t stop ringing. DO you know who’s calling? Everybody says they met me in Topeka, in 1962, and do I want to make their movie. Guys want me to do remakes of films haven’t been made yet.”
“Well, it’s a commodity. And I admire you for not being ashamed to ask the question. Yes, it’s a good question, and I don’t know if it is a good film. “What about Art?” I’m not an artist. Never said I was, and nobody who sits in this chair can be. I’m a businessman. “Can’t we try to make good films?” Yes. We try. I’m going to try to make a good film of this prison film. The question: Is there such a thing as a good film which loses money? In general, of course. But, really, not. For me, ‘cause if the films I make lose money, then I’m back on the streets with a sweet and silly smile on my face, they fell in the forest, what did I accomplish. Yes. You see? There is a way things are. Some people are elected, try to change the world, this job is not that job. Somebody, somebody . . . in this job, in the job I have, somebody is always trying to “promote” you: to use something, some “hook: to get you to do something in their own best interest. You follow me?”
“You can if you wish to. In the world. Dying. We prayed for a sign. A temporary girl. You asked me to read the book. (pause) I read the book. Do you know what it says? It says that you were put here to make stories people need to see. To make them less afraid. It say in spite of our transgressions-that we could do something. Which would bring us alive. So that we needn’t feel ashamed. (pause) We needn’t feel frightened. The wild animal dies with pride. He didn’t make the world. God made the world. You say you prayed to be pure. What is your prayers were answered? You asked me to come. Here I am.”
“No, I thank you. Do you know what he’s talking about? Fear. A life lived in fear, and he says, It Says In The Book, it doesn’t have to be so; that those things we have seen . . . you know, and you think “I am I the only one on the whole planet who knows how bad it is . . . that it’s coming . . . that it’s sure to come.” What . . . don’t you see? What can I do . . . ? And you can’t join a convent, or “cut off your hair,” or, or, or, you see, this is our pain, I think, we can’t embrace Jesus. He, you see, and he says, “I know. And you don’t have to be afraid.” And I realized: I haven’t breathed. How long? In years. From, I don’t know. From terror, perhaps ever. And you say, how can you say it? Is our life so bad? No. No. But that it’s ending. That our life is ending. Yes. It’s true And he says that, that these are the Dark Ages. (pause) They aren’t to come. The Dark Ages-they are now. We’re living them. (reads) “In the waning days . . . in the last days” . . . “Yes,” he says, it’s true, and you needn’t deny it . . . and I felt such a fear, because, of course, he’s right. Then he says: “Do not be afraid.” The story . . . when you, when you read it, the story itself. Down below the bridge, I’ll tell you: written with such love . . . (pause) Such love . . . (pause) God. A thing to be thankful for. Such love…”
…from Oleanna:
“You were going to tell me that you have a wife and child…that you have a career…and that you’ve worked for 20 years for this. Do you know what you’ve worked for? Power! For power. Do you understand? And you sit there and tell me stories about your house…and all about private schools and privilege…and how you are entitled to buy, to spend…to mock, to summon.All your stories. All your silly, weak guilt. It’s all about privilege…and you won’t know it.Don’t you see? You’ve worked twenty years for the right to insult me.And you feel entitled to be paid for it.Your home, your wife…your sweet deposit on your house. Don’t you have feelings?”
Contest begins May 24, 2010 at 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time and ends on June 25th, 2010 at 11:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time. To enter:
-Upload a Video to YouTube of you performing your favorite David Mamet quote. (Please make sure this is enabled for public viewing on your account.)
-VIDEO MUST INCLUDE: Introduction of First Name, and Where the Quote is from. There is a time limit of one (1) minute for each video submitted.
- E-MAIL the YouTube URL for your video to info@broadwaysbestshows.com and we’ll add it to our list. E-Mails must include contact information including full name, email, and phone #.
**This information will not be publicly displayed**
Entry/Selection:
Contest entries will only be accepted from May 24th, 2010 to June 25th, 2010. At the end of the submission period, a judging panel (consisting of employees and partners of RACE Broadway LLC, Jeffrey Richards Associates, and Broadway’s Best Shows) will select twenty prize-eligible entries. From these twenty, the final prize winners will be selected by a leading casting director at Telsey + Company Casting. Odds of winning are dependent on the total number of eligible entries received. Entrants can submit more than one video. Winning entrants can not win multiple prizes.
Prizes:
Honorable Mentions (5) receive:
A copy of “Theatre,” the new book by David Mamet
Finalists (5) receive:
A pair of tickets to see RACE on Broadway with the new cast (beginning June 21st,2010)
A copy of David Mamet’s newest play, RACE, once available.
Grand Prize Winner (1) receives:
A pair of ticket to see RACE (starring Eddie Izzard, Dennis Haysbert, Afton C. Williamson, and Richard Thomas)on Broadway JULY22nd, 2010 and have an exclusive photo op. with the new cast backstage.
A 1-Night Stay at the HILTON Times Square on July 22nd, 2010.
Dinner for Two at the Glass House Tavern
Race Merchandise
A copy of David Mamet’s newest play, RACE, once available.
Prizes are not redeemable for cash or transferable. No substitution allowed. Finalists will be selected on or before July 5, 2010. Finalists must accept prizes by noon on July 8, 2010 or it will be forfeited and awarded to an alternate winner. Disqualification and the selection of an alternate winner may result from any of the following: (1) potential winner’s failure to respond to notification within three (3) days after its emailing; (2) the return of any notice as undeliverable; (3) any other non-compliance with Rules. Grand Prize Winner will be selected by popular vote of the judging panel.
Winners and Finalists will be responsible for all federal, state, and local taxes. By participating, entrants agree to be bound by the rules and the show’s decisions, and if selected as a winner, agree to the sponsor’s use of his or her name and/or city of residence for commercial purposes without further notification, permission, compensation, except where prohibited by law. Void where prohibited.
Conditions:
Each entrant by entering the Contest agrees that: (1) he/she will abide by and be bound by the Rules and the Partner’s decisions; (2) the entry becomes solely the Company and Partner’s property and will not be acknowledged or returned; (3) the Company and Partner are not responsible for claims, injuries, losses, or damages of any kind resulting, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from the awarding, delivery, acceptance, use, misuse, possession, loss, or misdirection of the prize or participation in the Contest or in any activity or travel related therefore; (4) winner’s acceptance of the prize constitutes the grant of an unconditional right to Partner and assigns to use winner’s name, address (city and state only), voice, likeness, photograph, biographical and prize information and/or statements about the promotion for any publicity, advertising, and promotional purposes without additional compensation, except where prohibited by law; (5) in the event of unauthorized human intervention, Acts of God, acts or regulations of any governmental or supra-national authority, war, national emergency, accident, fire, riot, strikes, lock-outs, industrial disputes, acts of terrorism or other matters beyond the Partner’s reasonable control, corrupt, prevent, or impair the administration, security, fairness or proper play of the Contest, so that it cannot be conducted as originally planned, the Partner has the right to cancel, modify, terminate, or suspend the Contest; and in such event, to select a winner by random drawing from among all eligible entries received up to such time of cancellation, modification, termination or suspension; (6) the Partner is not responsible for typographical or other errors in the offer or administration of the Contest including but not limited to : errors in the advertising, rules and selection and announcement of the winner; (7) any portion of the prize not accepted or used by the winner will be forfeited; (8) the Partner is not responsible for any inability of the winner to accept or use the prize (or any portion thereof) for any reason.
Limitations:
Open only to persons 18 or older upon entering. Void where prohibited. Employees of Broadway’s Best Shows Inc., Jeffrey Richards Associates, Jam Theatricals Ltd., JK Productions LLC, Richards/Climan Inc., Serino Coyne, Situation Interative, Telsey & Company, ACT Productions LTD, Stuart Thompson Productions, O & M, SpotCo Advertising, Allied Live, their immediate families, and respected affiliates, including advertising and promotion agencies, are not permitted. All federal, state, and local taxes are the sole responsibility of the winner. Please allow 6-8 weeks for delivery of prizes. For show tickets, certain show-time limitations do apply. No substitution, cash alternative, or transfer of prize is permitted.
Wal-Mart is under scrutiny once again for photos that surfaced online featuring two styles of a Ballerina Barbie doll for sale at one Louisiana Store branch. One doll, the ‘Ballerina Barbie’ is listed as being sold for $5.93. The other, the ‘Ballerina Teresa’ doll, is marked with a discount tag and being sold for $3.00. The dolls are identical except for the ‘Teresa’ doll features darker skin and hair.
A spokesperson for for Wal-Mart simply states that “…though both dolls were priced the same to start, one was marked down due to its lower sales to hopefully increase purchase from customers.” That is how retail works. Many items are often marked clearance to make room for newer inventory.
So is the fault on Wal-Mart managers or its shoppers?
There have been long-standing studies that show even African American children will overwhlemingly prefer light-skinned dolls, to those with darker skin; and associate lightness with “good” and darkness with “bad.”
But Wal-Mart is being accused of being insensitive in its choice of pricing. Opponents say that “lowering the price is devaluing the doll,” and having it displayed the way it is, shows carelessness and sends a negative message towards darker skinned people.
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Though the incident may not be intentional, may there be symbolic racism in the dolls’ value? Are Wal-Mart managers insensitive, or simply doing their job by clearing out unpopular merchandise? Are customers prejudiced into preferring predominantly light-skinned dolls? YOU DECIDE? … Is It Racist?
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