Top 10 Controversial Broadway Casting Decisions

Name: Top 10 Controversial Broadway Casting Decisions
Uploaded: 2022-12-18T11:00:00-05:00
Channel: Whitney Wilson
Description: These casting decisions had Broadway singing a controversial tune. For this list, we'll be looking at casting choices throughout Broadway history that caused a stir for a variety of reasons.

VOICE OVER: Emily Brayton
WRITTEN BY: Whitney Wilson

These casting decisions had Broadway singing a controversial tune. For this list, we'll be looking at casting choices throughout Broadway history that caused a stir for a variety of reasons. Our countdown includes Lea Michele as Fanny Brice in “Funny Girl," Nonbinary Erasure in “Jagged Little Pill,” Disagreements Surrounding “All My Sons," and more!

#10: Only "Nonwhite" Performers in "Hamilton"
#9: Rosie O'Donnell as Golde in "Fiddler on the Roof"
#8: Melanie Griffith as Roxie Hart in "Chicago"
#7: Disagreements Surrounding "All My Sons"
#6: Andrew Lloyd Webber Fires Patti LuPone from "Sunset Boulevard"
#5: Nonbinary Erasure in "Jagged Little Pill"
#4: Lea Michele as Fanny Brice in "Funny Girl"
#3: Amar Ramasar as Bernardo in "West Side Story"
#2: Mandy Patinkin as Pierre in "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812"
#1: Jonathan Pryce as The Engineer in "Miss Saigon"

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