Was Huck Black?: Not According to Copyright Lawyers
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/siva/archives/001358.html"...In this retelling, Huck was played by senior Jay Frisby, who is black, and his classmate Nick Lehan, who is white, played Jim.
That untraditional reverse casting has provoked the ire of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization, which licenses the rights to the musical created by Roger Miller. It forbade the teenagers to perform the song "Muddy Water" from the musical that was broadcast last night on C-SPAN. And it will prevent them from singing it at the annual gala for the Critics and Awards Program for High School Theater, known as the Cappies, scheduled for tomorrow night at the Hippodrome Theater in Baltimore..."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/20/AR2005052001944.html
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