BYE BYE BIRDIE "SPANISH ROSE" Stratford Playhouse 

I agree -- not only her dancing, but her self-mocking facial expressions.

It’s a community theater

Mellifluous nope, it’s a public high school that has an award winning theatre program.

Stratford High School in Houston, Texas! Amazing theatre program!! They are so talented!

As someone who has been a part of many castings, sometimes it is hard to cast certain roles as their actual ethnicities because sometimes no one of that ethnicity shows up to the audition. I am very happy you, an actual Spanish Rose, got to play Rosie!

ace lee I

ace lee I

Casted is not a word.

ace lee I get it. As a Hispanic, I find it unfair at times when they cast white actors for Hispanic roles. But sometimes, they don’t have Hispanic actors. Other than that, I think she did very well.

Shes not spanish but she is puerto rican

Callie B did you get it!?

I did actually get the part, it is really fun and there is A LOT of dancing

Callie Basler congrats!

NICE JOB!

that's funny, bc a few days ago i saw bye bye birdie and the role of rose was played by a girl named callie

it's also meant to provide a sense of mockery towards mrs. peterson from rose's point of view. mrs. peterson dislikes the idea of her son marrying a hispanic girl, so she is saying that because albert loves her for who she is, rose is fully embodying her culture, as well as the stereotypes, and saying she will be the most spanish girl of them all! ik i'm late by 3 years, but i'm auditioning for rosie in a few days and wanted to add on to this point😂

did you get it

Katie O'Brien they still haven’t anointed the roles, auditions ended november 1 so they said that they’re going to announce sometime in the next two weeks

Did u get it ? I'm beyond curious

nikki_nicole _ no i didn’t get it 😭😭

Katie O'Brien no i didn’t end up getting it :((

Update: she sang it today and I almost died I was like 👀👀👀

Landblaster ffff that sucks. We closed a week ago and right before tech week told me she wasn’t looking for a relationship at the time which I get. Hope your crush turns out better

Landblaster no problem. We’re doing fiddler on the roof and out of the three roles I want two of them have lead roles as the love interests. I’m pretty sure she’s gonna get one of the two lead girls I’m talking about so if I get cast that’ll be an experience 😬

Landblaster thanks, same to you

She’s an alto actually

It was done in a high school so it is likely they couldn't find someone Spanish who was talented enough. If this were a professional show they would have cast a Spanish person but schools are quite limited with performers.

you never know! i'm puerto rican and have the same skin color as this actress

stratford's theatre department is mainly white so it's kind of hard to find someone who is hispanic to plays hispanic roles

Can I just inform everyone that Spanish isn't a race. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

Also isn’t the point of this song that she isn’t Spanish?

Jason Jones you're thinking of the shriner's ballet. it's a different scene. he's uploaded that one too.

Actually the official libretto says the scene is after that, you might have seen a different rendition

no honey, that’s shriners ballet

Jay jay I get u but you have to remember this is a high school play so casting a Latina girl who fits the role and is a good singer would be really hard. I get what your saying though

Jay jay shut the fuck up. It’s a high school play and this song is about playing up Spanish stereotypes to annoy her boyfriend’s racist mother.

it’s a song about being spanish. from Spain.

bruh what

It’s really not lol

Seth Jerabek no, it’s making fun of the spanish stereotypes, and making a joke about how stupid they are .

It's not. You're seeing what YOU want to see.🙄

ik im 4 years late but the song is about rose being of hispanic descent, and because albert's mother dislikes that part of her, she is fully embodying her culture (as well as its stereotypes) and mocking her future mother-in-law's disapproval. it's not intended to be racist, despite rosie being portrayed by a white actress. like a few comments explained before, high school theater is very limited to its performers. hope this helped!