UPDATE: Lindsay Mendez to Play Carrie Pipperidge in CAROUSEL Revival! — Page 3

BroadwayConcierge said: "http://www.broadway.com/buzz/189961/lindsay-mendez-joins-broadways-carousel-revival-as-carrie-pipperidge/

Now confirmed at an, er... slightly more reputable source."



I would hardly call Broadway.com a "slightly more reputable source"...especially with how much they scam people in the way of tickets and the prices. But, yes, everyone else (include our own BWW) has her playing Carrie (including IBDB.com)

HeyMrMusic said:

The “plenty of white actresses who look more Latin than actual Latinx people” argument was one of the main pointsin the recentEvitacasting controversy. It’s an argument that leads to the erasure of Latinx people onstage because white people can “pass.”"

I think its more complicated than that. The recent argument in the Evita casting was because those protesting were arguing that people of Latinx descent somehow have some insight into the inner life of those characters that Caucasian actors don't, which unless they are from Argentina, I think is rather silly.

Look I totally understand those who feel like they are discriminated against because of their ethnicity,and that there is a need for open mindedness and equality, but in the case of the Latinx arguements, it does seem to me to be about what we 'perceive to be Latin' being appropriate for the roles based on physical appearances.

How do you quantify that when someone like Elena Roger (a true Latinx) looks more Caucasian than Patti LuPone? Or myself who can claim Latin descent, even though I have no affinity to Latin language or culture?

She reaches an E6 in “Bless the Lord” in the Godspell recording. (That’s the high note Christine sings in the title song of Phantom.) She also sings the sustained C6 (up to the D6) in “We Beseech Thee.” There’s a legit soprano in her for sure.

Mildred - that's hilarious. Quote of the week.

...But I am!

"Gee, I'd like to be

On some marquee,

All twinkling lights.

With a source just to enforce

My career's course,

God, that message board bites!"

I wonder if this is the first time a major cast announcement has been leaked by a name on a theatre marquis. LOL Guess the old PR system hasn't quite caught up to digital media.

It amuses me that Kelli O'Hara and Jessie Mueller were in Carousel with the NYPhil and both played Billie Bendix in Nice Work If You Can Get It.

Then Jessie Mueller moved to Broadway, in the other role, with Betsy Wolfe...and both played Jenna Hunterson in Waitress.

Then Lindsay Mendez replaced Betsy, and both of them were in Everyday Rapture...this is some 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon s***!

Was that Betsy on 45th St. shooting the bulbs out on the marquee?

Mildred Plotka said: "I love that her name was on the marquee at the theatre and people wanted reliable sources lol."

For me, I was skeptical of the *photo* of the marquee. Without seeing it in person, I just assumed it could potentially have been photoshopped.

First off, Latinx sounds like a terrible drag name, and I'm not saying anything bad about Mendez. I think she's awesome, and I find it kind of interesting that she is replacing her "Everyday Rapture" castmate. I'm just saying that her casting doesn't, to me, overtly say "MIXED CAST DIVERSITY." I think it's great she is hispanic. I have nothing bad to say about that, and ultimately, I don't care that she is hispanic. That is to say, it doesn't matter to me. I don't think race has anything to do with anything in this current situation. She just happens to be a damn good actress.

That's basically my reaction. If people need to take it as a "yay diveristy, yay POC, yay Latinx, etc" that's totally cool, go for it. But to me, her casting seems traditional and makes sense, so maybe that's a good thing? That said I'm beyond excited to see this production.

As I woman, I can promise you, Lindsay Mendez has faced far more discrimination in the theatre because of her body shape than because of her ethnicity.

It's nice to see Lindsay in this. Yes, they get diversity points for having her, but I think it's a little disrespectful to suggest that, that's why she got the part. Betsy left the show because of a scheduling conflict with the workshop this fall (AKA Waitress). There's no other reason. Anyone that suggests otherwise has no basis. Betsy was not fired for being a white girl and Lindsay was not cast because she's Latina.