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Selection: E-Mail Exchange and Bellamy

selection: The Globe found that the agency that represents the white singer had included the role on her Web page, according to Globe and Mail. Bellamy, a Calgary-based theatre artist, was uncomfortable with this. But an e-mail exchange between Bellamy and the interim artistic director appear to indicate that a selection had been made. In the hit musical, which premiered on Broadway in 1949, Bloody Mary is supposed to be from Tonkin, now a region of Vietnam. The short answer is it's 2017, he says, when asked why he left the production. Bellamy believes strongly that the character should not be played by a white performer. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.