BREAKING NEWS – Kent, Ohio – Kent State University has cancelled its fall musical production of “West Side Story” following complaints that too many white students landed lead roles. Bridgett Martinez, a junior musical theatre major who is of Puerto Rican descent, tried out for her “dream role” of Maria, but she said “it all just got screwed up” when “it was given to a white female,” KentWired.com reported. Martinez was instead cast as her understudy, and the other three leads that portrayed Latino characters were given to non-Latino students. Kent State had a similar controversy last year, when no blacks were cast in their theatrical version of, “Roots”.
