Pacific Overtures, a musical with an all-Asian cast, is currently being mounted by a local theater group here in Chicago. The preview video is quite insightful. There are very few mainstream American musicals that feature Asian actors, so this will be interesting. It's a Sondheim piece about the opening of Japan to the West. Considering it's penned by white people, the perspective may be "old school," but it also puts the fire under the butts of Asian artists to continue to put out work from our own unique points of view.
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