Thanks! I'd forgotten about the Funny Girl black character, but a very small role I'd say... and the OP asked about "major" roles being white and black, so while notable I don't think it counts for this. Same reason I didn't include Chicago, or a few others that had mixed casting but not for any notable roles.
I didn't know about Body Beautiful though, very good factoid!
And re: Bye Bye Birdie, I forgot about the Marge Champion of it all, but since the role did *become* hispanic for Chita, even with a last name to reflect that and "Spanish Rose" (which I'm assuming was not the original concept or title of that number if it was in the show/plans for the show when being conceived for Marge or Carol?), of course it very much counts. I'm sure you were just adding info, not challenging the inclusion of the show for this list, and i'm glad to have the info!
Re: Seesaw, thank you, I don't know the show well enough to be sure, I could have guessed just from Giancarlo's last name, and if i'd gone further to see the name of the character he played (though you never know with names, not safe to assume)... but in pictures it's not crazy to assume he's black. My bad! |
