Celina Carvajal from Kinky Boots changed her name.
Celina Carvajal from Kinky Boots changed her name.
#1Celina Carvajal from Kinky Boots changed her name.
Posted: 7/25/13 at 9:21am
To Lena Hall.
I wonder why?
#2Celina Carvajal from Kinky Boots changed her name.
Posted: 7/25/13 at 9:24am
Broadway.com covered this last week, and their article has the explanation from her.
From Celina Carvajal to Lena Hall: The Kinky Boots Rocker Explains Her Recent Name Change
Rainbowhigh23
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/29/12
#3Celina Carvajal from Kinky Boots changed her name.
Posted: 7/25/13 at 11:00amWonder how much the Playbill with her her original name is worth now.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#5Celina Carvajal from Kinky Boots changed her name.
Posted: 7/25/13 at 11:13am
It's the wanna pass for white syndrome rearing it's ugly head. Celina Carvajal is too damned ETHNIC. Lena Hall? Not so much.
From now on refer to me as Charles Albert. I wanna be white too.
Updated On: 7/25/13 at 11:13 AM
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#6Celina Carvajal from Kinky Boots changed her name.
Posted: 7/25/13 at 11:31amI dunno. I think it's also (if not more) about having a name that that's uncommon and hard to pronounce and remember. There's are people on here who think Anne Elise Van Dur Dorp (sp?) should change her name and she's as white as they come.
Rainbowhigh23
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/29/12
#7Celina Carvajal from Kinky Boots changed her name.
Posted: 7/25/13 at 11:36am
"It's the wanna pass for white syndrome rearing it's ugly head. Celina Carvajal is too damned ETHNIC. Lena Hall? Not so much."
She has such a beautiful name- what nationality is she? I don't understand why this racism still exists and it makes beautiful, talented people want to hide their ethnicity. She should be proud of her birth name and keep it. Make sure everybody gets the spelling right and woe to those who don't. Manoel Felciano, Raul Esparza, gorgeous and easy to remember!
Updated On: 7/25/13 at 11:36 AM
#8Celina Carvajal from Kinky Boots changed her name.
Posted: 7/25/13 at 11:45am
White is a color. It's not an ethnicity.
I have no idea what ethnicity Carvajal/Hall is.
#9Celina Carvajal from Kinky Boots changed her name.
Posted: 7/25/13 at 11:53am
Manoel Felciano and Raul Esparza both have their names mangled constantly. Both will tell you it's incredibly difficult to overcome that as a professional actor.
Wasn't she on the Legally Blonde reality show?
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Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#10Celina Carvajal from Kinky Boots changed her name.
Posted: 7/25/13 at 11:55amI get that if this was like 1935, she'd be doing this to pass for white, but if you change your name and there's a BWW article about it, can it really be the actress is trying to obfuscate her heritage.
#11Celina Carvajal from Kinky Boots changed her name.
Posted: 7/25/13 at 11:56am
Sarcasm flies over some people's head.
**Whoosh** and there it goes --------->
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#12Celina Carvajal from Kinky Boots changed her name.
Posted: 7/25/13 at 12:05pm
:)
Updated On: 7/25/13 at 12:05 PM
#13Celina Carvajal from Kinky Boots changed her name.
Posted: 7/25/13 at 12:35pm
I don't have any problem with it. It's not a denial of her ethnicity or heritage any more than Judy Garland changing her name to Frances Gumm or Marion Morrison changing his name to John Wayne.
They realize they are a "product' and need to be easily identifiable in a mass market.
I don't blame her for doing it one bit.
I wish more performers would do that.
If you asked her what her heritage or ethnicity is, do you think she'd answer white?
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#14Celina Carvajal from Kinky Boots changed her name.
Posted: 7/25/13 at 12:37pm
But do I think she's doing it so that English-speaking Americans will be able to say her name?
Absolutely.
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#15Celina Carvajal from Kinky Boots changed her name.
Posted: 7/25/13 at 1:07pmEnglish-speaking Americans can can pronounce her name, Besty. It's the white English-speaking Americans who can't.
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#16Celina Carvajal from Kinky Boots changed her name.
Posted: 7/25/13 at 1:56pmThis seems awfully late in her career. She finally starts to make a name for we self and changes it? Seems silly...
#17Celina Carvajal from Kinky Boots changed her name.
Posted: 7/25/13 at 2:27pmIs we self like the royal we?
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#18Celina Carvajal from Kinky Boots changed her name.
Posted: 7/25/13 at 2:28pmI can't speak for we self, but Kelly Bishop changed her name from Carole during A Chorus Line, and she'd already been the business for years.
#19Celina Carvajal from Kinky Boots changed her name.
Posted: 7/25/13 at 2:30pm
English-speaking Americans can can pronounce her name, Besty. It's the white English-speaking Americans who can't.
Really? How about the English speaking Americans who don't speak any other language.
Not necessarily white.
You think that Korean Americans (for example) or African Americans who spoke English only or had little to no familiarity with Latin languages wouldn't struggle with it?
I disagree.
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#20Celina Carvajal from Kinky Boots changed her name.
Posted: 7/25/13 at 2:49pmI want to change my name to Celina Carvajal.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#21Celina Carvajal from Kinky Boots changed her name.
Posted: 7/25/13 at 2:50pmGet used to people pronouncing it with a hard "j."
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#22Celina Carvajal from Kinky Boots changed her name.
Posted: 7/25/13 at 3:00pm
Phyllis, are you saying that "Car-Vaj-Al" is not the correct pronunciation? 
singalongsong2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/11/08
#23Celina Carvajal from Kinky Boots changed her name.
Posted: 7/25/13 at 3:08pmYes, orangeskittles, she was on the Legally Blonde reality show.
Rainbowhigh23
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/29/12
#24Celina Carvajal from Kinky Boots changed her name.
Posted: 7/25/13 at 3:20pmShe should keep her name Celina Carvajal. The tourists will have fun learning to pronounce it.
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