Disney employs the most amount of minorities on Broadway - Page 2

[trpguyy]

Posted: 5/20/16 at 11:33am

While it may have a been a joke to say "there aren't any Arabic actors," it would be completely accurate to say "there are virtually no Arab or Persian singer/actor/dancers auditioning for Broadway shows."

BTW, "Arabic" is a language, "Arab" is an ethnic identity.

Updated On: 5/20/16 at 11:33 AM

[MayAudraBlessYou2]

Posted: 5/20/16 at 12:15pm

Broadway Forever2 said: "yeah it's dumb me that there are no Arabic actors at all in Aladdin. I'm surprised there's no backlash for that at all but I guess there arent' enough Arabic actors in theatre. 
 

Edit: This was sarcasm just to be clear 

 

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Just now seeing your edit. Glad that's clear! haha. But I know several Arab/Middle Eastern actors who were typed out of the auditions for Aladdin. ...So I really don't know what the hell was going on with the casting of that show. And as someone linked below, there was quite the outrage about it.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 5/20/16 at 12:27pm

trpguyy said: "While it may have a been a joke to say "there aren't any Arabic actors," it would be completely accurate to say "there are virtually no Arab or Persian singer/actor/dancers auditioning for Broadway shows.""

Who aren't Ramin Karimloo...

[trpguyy]

Posted: 5/20/16 at 1:11pm

LizzieCurry said: "trpguyy said: "While it may have a been a joke to say "there aren't any Arabic actors," it would be completely accurate to say "there are virtually no Arab or Persian singer/actor/dancers auditioning for Broadway shows.""

Who aren't Ramin Karimloo..."

I think you're being generous with his dancing ability.