Pretty from Kentucky nobody cares about this my gosh go help the poor in the homeless and families and those that are alone and our parents okay go help the people volunteer work in a shelter grow up

I feel this documentary helped change how child stars in shows are handled today. For example, my vocal coach told me Disney intentionally limits their young simbas/nalas to 6 months and makes sure the kids have counseling after they leave. Billy Elliot has it in their contract that once the kids out grow the title they get 1 year of counseling after to help them transit.

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And you are ..... who??

It's a shame. I had heard that because of this documentary many shows now have it in the contract that when a child lead outgrows the part they get a year of counseling to help them transit (Billy Elliot is one show).

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She was burnt out and wanted to put it behind her. Later in life she realized she had to embrace it.

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Yup. Ew. He didn’t seem like he liked the show, he seemed like he liked the girls. Gross.

@@surlywithfabshoesright? Gross.

Where is this part?

I don't agree with your take at all because I think putting children in a position where they can be famous is just wrong. An adult is capable of contextualizing "I am liked by the public for the thing I do," but a child is not capable of that kind of abstraction. Their living in the past is a natural result of that kind of utterly bizarre upbringing. 99.99999% of people never experience universal praise from even the people they know, much less literal strangers. It's not fair to pin that on them. It doesn't matter if they loved it at the time, a parent's job is to recognize the pitfalls of things and how they might play out in the future. Just as an aside, I'm not calling any of the parents of any of these kids bad parents, not even a little bit. I'm sure literally all of them had their kids best intentions in mind. I'm moreso bemoaning the illusion that celebrity culture forces on people.

Right? How dare these women recount their own lived experiences on a documentary they were asked to be in!1!1!!1!1

It’s more complicated. Plenty of them are happy post fame but it’s a journey

she wouldn’t talk anything about it because she probably loved it too much.

She has conflicted feelings about it. She's talked elsewhere about how she got so sick of the song Tomorrow for a while and wanted to distance herself from the show until she realized it was her legacy. @@coryzlife

From what I recall she wanted no part of this documentary. She processed it totally different apparently. She declined all interviews

She really dissed this documentary in an interview. She seemed very bitter and not kind about the other girls in other companies.

You'd be shocked to know who it was

How so? There's now a greater cultural awareness around child abuse, and the abuse of girls and young women in particular.

Right? Sad that these women had to be put through this business at a young age, but it’s also sad that they grew up around gay men and still became adults who think “men kissing men” are gross and weird. This documentary looks like it was filmed in the 90s/2000s, but still.

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children are treacherous and evil, what else can really be said?

So what? You saw men and women kissing as a child, didn't you? Why would two men be worse? @@kham6006

Concerning the homophobic parts of the documentary, I feel like you have to think of it from a child's perspective (plus this documentary came out in 2006, we were still in an era where men who knew how to dress & groom themselves well were called "metrosexuals"). As a bisexual man myself, I feel like they're more-so just reflecting on how they were thrown into an adult environment so early on in their lives, as opposed to generally looking at gay/bi men like we're freaks, which many people *still* think we are to this day. They also mention being shocked by the sight of naked women, prostitutes in the area during the original Broadway run, & drugs backstage. At 21:51, one of the orphans recalls trying to roll a joint out of paper towels for some weed they found backstage. Obviously most of this stuff isn't abnormal, and being gay is very much just a part of life, but when you're 7-13 years old in the late 70s/early 80s (the start of the AIDS epidemic and all of the extra stigma attached to queer people), of course it's gonna seem a little odd & unusual. The way they describe it all in the documentary seem to have some homophobic undertones to it, but I feel like they might have been thinking of it from their 10 year old selves' perspectives as well.

Well, in context, the topic discussed is premature exposure to adult themes. The point they're making is that children should not be exposed to sex or sexuality. Let alone the drugriddled streets of NYC in the 80's.

I love Andrea and saw her on Broadway when I was 8. You don’t seem to be giving enough credit to these talented women. Andrea could not play the role forever. It’s thanks to these actors that the show continued and brought entertainment and enjoyment to so many through the years.