Native American Actor/Actresses on Broadway?
Native American Actor/Actresses on Broadway?
DiamondGirl
Stand-by Joined: 10/1/05
#0Native American Actor/Actresses on Broadway?
Posted: 12/13/05 at 1:29pmAs I've been awaiting for "The New World" to come out in theatres, I've been a very Native-centric mood. Does anyone know of men or women of Native American heritage who have been on Broadway?
FrancisGumm
Broadway Star Joined: 2/8/04
#1re: Native American Actor/Actresses on Broadway?
Posted: 12/13/05 at 1:34pmCheyenne Jackson
"Beating AIDS and extreme, stupid poverty, this is our moon shot. This is our civil rights struggle, our anti-apartheid movement. This is what the history books will remember our generation for--or blame us for, if we fail."-Bono
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#2re: Native American Actor/Actresses on Broadway?
Posted: 12/13/05 at 1:50pm
Tim Sampson played Chief Bromden in the revival of Cuckoo's Nest
And of course there was Jerry Mitchell's famous Indian in Will Rogers Follies! But somehow I don't think that is what you had in mind.
PEACE.
DiamondGirl
Stand-by Joined: 10/1/05
#3re: Native American Actor/Actresses on Broadway?
Posted: 12/13/05 at 2:07pm
Yeah, not quite what I had in mind. 
I'd forgotten that One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was a play - I'm so ridiculous. And Cheyenne Jackson? Really? That's cool; I had no idea he had NA blood.
#4re: Native American Actor/Actresses on Broadway?
Posted: 12/13/05 at 2:17pm
Native American men are so sexy.
Sorry I have nothing of substance to add to this topic.
--Like an odd exotic creature on display inside a zoo, hearing children asking questions makes me ask some questions too...--
Kass983
Stand-by Joined: 10/1/05
#5re: Native American Actor/Actresses on Broadway?
Posted: 12/13/05 at 3:14pm
As someone with a quarter Goshute Indian blood, yes I am a tribal member, I care about this subject too. I know, I know, I don't look it, came out in my youngest daughter though, bone straight black hair to her behind and cute slanty-ish eyes.
Anyway, I certainly hope more colorblind casting starts happening because I don't see a play about Native Americans, starring Native Americans coming along soon. Look how often they come out in Hollywood. Lots of unemployed yet talented, and HOT, NA actors out there unfortunately. Adam Beech and Rodney A. Grant come to mind...
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#6re: Native American Actor/Actresses on Broadway?
Posted: 12/13/05 at 3:22pmLou Diamond Phillips in The King and I.
PEACE.
jasobres
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/9/05
#7re: Native American Actor/Actresses on Broadway?
Posted: 12/13/05 at 4:05pmKristin Chenoweth is part Cherokee.
"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!"
- Jimmy Durante
"Breathe from your hoo-hoo."
-Kristin Chenoweth
CJR
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/03
#8re: Native American Actor/Actresses on Broadway?
Posted: 12/13/05 at 4:08pmRoxane Carrasco is part Native American
"You're every gay man's wet dream!" ~ MA
If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...
erinrebecca
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/29/04
#9re: Native American Actor/Actresses on Broadway?
Posted: 12/13/05 at 6:02pmNot Native American but Native Canadian: Canadian Tamara Podemski who was Maureen in Rent is half-NC and half Israeli.
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#10re: Native American Actor/Actresses on Broadway?
Posted: 12/13/05 at 6:04pm
Tim Sampson is, of course, the son of the late Will Sampson, who played Chief Bromden in the movie.
The original Broadway cast of CUCCKOO'S NEST in 1965 featured Kirk Douglas as McMurphy, Gene Wilder as Billy Bibbitt, William Daniels as Harding, and Native American actor/singer Ed Ames as Chief Bromden.
Ames is best known to the world for the infamous tomahawk throwing incident on the Johnny Carson Show.
Kirk Doulas purchased the movie rights to the book, but by the 1970's was too old to play McMurphy. He turned over the rights to his son Michael, who produced the Oscar winning film.
AKIVA
Swing Joined: 5/10/04
#11re: Native American Actor/Actresses on Broadway?
Posted: 12/13/05 at 6:57pm
erinrebbeca beat me to it! Tamara is amazing, and an amazingly nice person. God to I want to see her play Elphaba some day.
Akiva
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#12re: Native American Actor/Actresses on Broadway?
Posted: 12/13/05 at 7:02pmKristin Chenoweth? Really? You wouldn't think it, but I guess that makes the cheekbones make sense.
#13re: Native American Actor/Actresses on Broadway?
Posted: 12/13/05 at 7:07pm
I am over a quarter Native American (which covers all of both "Americas" by the way) and do not look it at all.
Sometimes we are not blessed with hair and pigmentation. 
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
jasobres
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/9/05
#14re: Native American Actor/Actresses on Broadway?
Posted: 12/13/05 at 8:39pmYeah, plum, it says so on Kristin's imdb biography.
"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!"
- Jimmy Durante
"Breathe from your hoo-hoo."
-Kristin Chenoweth
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#16re: Native American Actor/Actresses on Broadway?
Posted: 12/14/05 at 12:09amI'm part Cherokee as well, You Go Cheno!!
"It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance." -
Elizabeth Taylor
#17re: Native American Actor/Actresses on Broadway?
Posted: 12/14/05 at 12:14amNephi Jay Wimmer, R.I.P.
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
