You know Broadway is coming back. But here’s something you probably don’t know: Some of the biggest shows have been revising onstage moments to reflect concerns about race. nyti.ms/3vAYFnP
The changes, many prompted by concerns from actors, have not been announced, and I stumbled across this story idea when I went to the reopening of “The Lion King” and noticed that Timon no longer refers to Rafiki as a monkey. (Yeah, I’ve seen “The Lion King” a few times.)
I knew that “The Book of Mormon” was holding a workshop to revisit its script and staging, following a letter of concern from actors, and I started to sense a possible pattern, so I began calling around.
Sure enough, it turned out that “Hamilton” had rechoreographed a song, and “To Kill a Mockingbird” had reblocked its ending, and “The Lehman Trilogy” and “Jagged Little Pill” had added new lines.