The Mayor looks like he's wearing enough bronzer to be in light-skinned-Blackface, at least on the small bit of his face that's protruding from the prosthetics.
Stephanie's shoes are utterly wrong. They can get the puppets' shoes looking identical to the TV ones, but Stephanie's aren't even the same type of shoe. Apart from the colour they look like something my great-grandmother would have worn when she still needed shoes, not something a little girl would wear, and they're metallic medium-dark magenta compared to the matt baby-pink to white of the TV's shoes.
The Mayor looks like he's wearing enough bronzer to be in light-skinned-Blackface, at least on the small bit of his face that's protruding from the prosthetics.
Stephanie's shoes are utterly wrong. They can get the puppets' shoes looking identical to the TV ones, but Stephanie's aren't even the same type of shoe. Apart from the colour they look like something my great-grandmother would have worn when she still needed shoes, not something a little girl would wear, and they're metallic medium-dark magenta compared to the matt baby-pink to white of the TV's shoes.
It's much easier than trying to cast a man and ending up with someone who's supposed to be a six-year old and yet has the vocal qualities of Darth Vader, I guess!
Besides, hundreds of stage productions have women portraying men or vice versa. In some cases it's a tradition!
Yarr harr fiddle-de-de, being a is all right with me! Do what you want 'cause a lives free, you are a !
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