viscountess: The Asian Representation we’re getting at Phantom Broadway is absolutely everythi
viscountess: The Asian Representation we’re getting at Phantom Broadway is absolutely everything to me. There was easily a time when I was a kid in love with the show where I wasn’t even disappointed with the lack of Asian performers in the show because we were so used to the norm for so long, these characters would pretty much always be white, it wasn’t vital to the plot of the show, but Christine was always just going to be played by a white actress outside of the Korean and Japanese productions.And then just a couple years ago we got freaking ALI EWOLDT starring as Christine on Broadway, and along with Courtney Kristen Liu had their first performance together as Christine and Meg and… some of you already get it, some of you are nodding a little (or a lot because you’ve lived those same life experiences I have) and some of you may only sort of get it because you’ve never had to be told you couldn’t do something because of the color of your skin.But to an Asian girl who literally never even thought to hope for an Asian Christine, this really is everything. -- source link
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