Was the Aragon Tour/Current Broadway Cast the first to be made up solely of POC?
The original principal cast, yes, both first and (so far) the only. When including alts and replacements things get more complicated.
On Aragon Tour the alts were Kelly Denice Taylor (Black); Erin Ramirez and Cassie Silva (both Latina); and then Kelsee Kimmel, who is white. They also had Marilyn Caserta as an alternate (also Latina).
Aragon Tour also had two replacements, Natalie May Paris and Courtney Mack, from May 2023 until the end of the Tour, both of whom are also white.
With this run so far on Broadway, the alts have been Kristina Leopold (who is mixed-race with both Black and Asian heritage); Sierra Fermin (Filipina); Ayla Ciccone-Burton (Black); and Aubrey Matalon (Jewish). The universals are Cassie (again Latina/Mexican) and Wesley Carpenter (white).
I have a post here where I try to keep track of anything the queens say about how they personally identify.
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Name Duplicates
Figured I should make a proper post with all the name duplicates. I’ll update periodically as we get new casts. Just counting queens right now, but I’ll probably add LiW eventually.
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Lauren/Loren/Lorren (Drew, Irving, Santo-Quinn, Byrne, Hunter, Mariasoosay)
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Ellie (Sharpe, Wyman, Grant, Elysia Cruz, Eloise Lord)
Jasmine/Jaz (Shen, Forsberg, Hackett, Smith, Robinson)
Meg/Megan/Meghan (Gilbert, Leung, Dawson, Dixon Brasil, Corbett)
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Courtney (Stapleton, Mack, Bowman, Monsma)
Gabriella/Gabriela/Gabbi/Gabi (Stylianou-Burns, Francesca Carrillo, Mack, Boumford)
Hana/Hannah (Stewart, Taylor, Lowther, Lawton)
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Abigail/Abbi/Abby (Sparrow, Hodgson, Mueller)
Adrianna/Adriana (Hicks, Scalice, Glover)
Amy/Ami/Aimie (Atkinson, Bridges, di Bartolomeo)
Danielle (Steers, Rose, Mendoza)
Erin/Aryn (Palmer Ramirez, Bohannon, Caldwell)
Jessica/Jessie/Jess: 3 (Niles, Bodner, Davidson)
Julia/Giulia (Pulo, McLellan, Marolda)
Maddie/Maddi/Mads (Bulleyment, Firth, Fansler)
Maiya/Maya/Amaya: 3 (Christian, Quansah-Breed, White)
Nicole (Kyoung-Mi Lambert, Lamb, Louise Lewis)
Sophie (Golden, Isaacs, -Rose Middleton)
Taylor: 3 (Iman Jones, Pearlstein, Sage Evans, plus Kelly Denice and Hannah if you count surnames)
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Amanda: 2 (Lindgren, Lee)
Amelia: 2 (Millie O’Connell, Atherton)
Ashleigh/Ashlee: 2 (Weir, Waldbauer)
Caitlin/Caitlyn: 2 (Tipping, De Kuyper)
Casey: 2 (Esbin, Al-Shaqsy)
Cassy/Cassie: 2 (Lee, Silva)
Chelsea: 2 (Wargo, Dawson)
Chloe: 2 (Zuel, Hart)
Christina/Cristina: 2 (Modestou, D’Agostino)
Elena: 2 (Gyasi, Breschi)
Eloise: 2 (Sharpe, Lord)
Emily: 2 (Harrigan, Rose Lyons)
Grace: 2 (Melville, Mouat)
Harriet: 2 (Watson, Caplan-Dean)
Holly/Holli’: 2 (Musgrave, Conway)
Janice/Janique: 2 (Rijssel, Charles)
Jennifer: 2 (Caldwell, Kim Ji-woo)
Kelly: 2 (Sweeney, Denice Taylor)
Kennedy/Kenedy: 2 (Monica Carstens, Small)
Kristina: 2 (Walz, Leopold)
Laura: 2 (Blair, Dawn Pyatt)”
Lexi/Lexie: 2 (McIntosh, Kim Ji sun)
Lucy/Lucia: 2 (Aiston, Valentino)
Maddison: 2 (Bulleyment, Firth)
Natalie: 2 (May Paris, Pilkington)
Olivia: 2 (Alexander, Donalson)
Rachel/Rae: 2 (Rawlinson, Davenport)
Sydney/Cydney: 2 (Parra, Clark)
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Imagine having to explain to Mike what a Gyatt is😭😭
and the fact that it's not even a noun, but like...an expression. don't get me started lmao. it's like 'GYAT!" 😃
tags: fluff [: (sweet discussions and fun talk of rollercoasters. abby is me, conked out after a twelve hour six flags day).
it'd been a fun saturday; you, mike, and abby had all gone to the popular amusement park in the city, sweating in the lengthy queue lines and pigging out on fried snacks and sweets that made your stomachs gurgle after each ride.
you'd gotten back home late, and abby had fallen asleep in the car, leaving you two to put her to bed before winding down yourselves.
you and mike shower together, pressing your bodies close and massaging at the other's muscles, aiding the scorching water in washing away the tension of activity.
afterwards, you two retreat to your room and slip into your pajamas lethargically, recollecting on the day's thrills. mike falls to the bed as he pulls his shirt over his chest, resting his back against the headboard and grabbing for his phone settled on the nightstand. "'the deep dive' was your favorite?"
you're sitting on your side of the bed, gathering your hair and securing it all at the top of your head before tying your scarf around it. you turn to mike with squinted eyes, challenging, "how could it not be? a 90 degree drop into the ground is crazy. it makes me see stars every time."
mike protests with a squeak, muttering, "eh. that's just it's gimmick. other than that, it's just a glorified 'kinder circuit'" as he stares down at his phone.
"do not compare it to a kid's rollercoaster, mike. that's insulting," you muse playfully, beginning to spread lotion over your arms and hands.
"yeah, yeah," he stalely sighs as his thumb tracked over his phone screen time and time again after a short burst of noise. lately, he'd been prone to doomscrolling on tiktok, hooked after abby had shown him a lot of videos from her for you page, and now, he's furrowing his eyes at videos and replies using this slang he's never heard before.
"do you know what a...'gyat' is?" he questions, trying out the word on his tongue in a few different inflections. "is it like 'guy-yat'? they're saying it like 'guy-yat' in all these videos."
you take a deep breath, rolling your eyes in annoyance as you finish rubbing lotion into the skin of your legs and crawl up to the top of the bed to snuggle into mike's shoulder. "it's not a noun. it's really shortened AAVE, like...'gotdamn', but using it as a noun is its appropriated form."
mike hums, letting out a light chuckle at the frivolity of social media. you go over the term with him, showing him what it really sounds like and means, and he copies you, making you giggle.
"okay, that makes sense. seeing...'latina gyatt' did not make me feel good and now i know why," you full on belly-laugh then, sliding down on the sheets until your head is resting on mike's chest where you feel his own boisterous joy rumble through your cheek.
"well that's good. i can't let you go around being uninformed." mike grins down at you, wrapping his arms around your waist and giving your torso a gentle squeeze. with a tired tone, he mutters, "mmmm, and that's why i love you, baby."
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Pulled the numbers on what colleges were most common for the US/Can actors. This is mostly taken from the Wiki. May be missing some actors/colleges. I generally tried to only count it when an actor actually got a degree in the performing arts, but it's possible that some of these still went to college for something else. I'll probably do this for the UK eventually, too.
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University of Michigan (Bre Jackson, Storm Lever, Zan Berube, Cydney Clark, Aline Mayagoitia)
AMDA (Gabbi Mack, Brittney Mack, Didi Romero, Joy N Woods, Brennyn Lark. Leandra Ellis-Gaston also attended AMDA LA, but that's a different program)
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Cal State - Fullerton (Ellie Wyman, Abigail Sparrow, Lauren Mariasoosay, Taylor Sage Evans)
Columbia College (Courtney Mack, Megan Leung, Mallory Maedke, Shantel Cribbs)
Sheridan College (Julia Pulo, Elysia Cruz, Hailey Alexis Lewis, Julia McLellan)
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Belmont (Wesley Carpenter, Sierra Fermin, Carlina Parker)
Boston Conservatory at Berklee (Kennedy Monica Carsterns, Gabriela Francesca Carrillo, Aryn Bohannon. Honorary mention of Hien, from the non-replica Hungarian cast)
Ithaca College (Olivia Donalson, Sydney Parra, Audrey Fisher)
Montclair State University (Gianna Grosso, Amaya White, Kristina Walz)
NYU (Gerianne Pérez, Princess Victomé, Guilia Marolda)
Penn State (Jasmine Forsberg, Amina Faye, Jessie Davidson)
TXST (Bella Coppola, Anna Uzele, Adriana Scalice)
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Ball State University (Terica Marie, Keirsten Hodgens)
Baldwin Wallace University (Keri Rene Fuller, Shelby Griswold)
BYU (Emily Rose Lyons, Channing Weir)
Emerson College (Kathryn Kilger, Erin Ramirez)
Elon University (Ruby Gibbs, Nasia Thomas)
Fullerton College (Haley Izurieta, Lauren Mariasoosay)
Indiana University (Abby Mueller, Caroline Siegrist)
Pace University (Aja Simone Baitey, Aubrey Matalon)
Rider University (Casey Esbin, Jessie Bodner)
Shenandoah University (Kelsee Kimmel, Willow Dougherty)
Temple University (Alana M Robinson, Chelsea Lorraine Wargo)
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