Asian Americans and Representation on Broadway
““I have to remind myself that we’re not writing a Japanese story, we’re writing a Japanese-American story,” says Kuo on a break from rehearsal. “And the flavor of Asian America is different than Asia.””
“It’s not just the topical subject matter—immigration, xenophobia, wartime paranoia—that makes Allegiance an especially significant entry to the Broadway season. It also happens to be the first musical created by Asian Americans, directed by an Asian American (Stafford Arima), with a predominantly Asian cast, to grace the Broadway stage.”
“What’s important now is that there’s also new work that more authentically represents the Asian and Asian-American experience, created by Asian and Asian-American teams. Kuo and Allegiance are a dramatic and long overdue step in that direction.”
http://www.americantheatre.org/2015/10/27/from-orientalism-to-authenticity-broadways-yellow-fever/
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