A Broadway Musical That Got A Foreign Culture Right?

[NewYorkTheater]

A Broadway Musical That Got A Foreign Culture Right?#1

Posted: 5/27/17 at 9:29pm

Not "The King and I," if you ask anybody from Thailand. Not "Miss Saigon," according to some recent rants by Vietnamese-American theater people.

So --- anything?

[DrFrasierCrane]

A Broadway Musical That Got A Foreign Culture Right?#2

Posted: 5/27/17 at 9:36pm

Pacific Overtures comes to mind. It's still very much a Western show, but Sondheim, Hal Prince, and John Weidman all took care to be sensitive and accurate with the material. 

"This reminds of a debate my brother and I were having about whether or not Stephen Sondheim is really light opera." -Frasier Crane

[BWAY Baby2]

A Broadway Musical That Got A Foreign Culture Right?#3

Posted: 5/27/17 at 9:40pm

Fiddler On The Roof- as a Jew- it really does get to the heart of what it means to be a Jew- very relatable even though this took place in Anatevka- the family structure particularly is very realistic and spot on.

[reginula]

A Broadway Musical That Got A Foreign Culture Right?#4

Posted: 5/27/17 at 11:05pm

How foreign does Come From Away's Newfoundland feel to you? (I wouldn't be able to say, since my culture as a Mexican is completely different) but it feels like an honest representation. I'd like to hear what Newfies have to say about it but I guess they would feel comfortable with it overall. 

[SharksVsJets]

A Broadway Musical That Got A Foreign Culture Right?#5

Posted: 5/28/17 at 12:24am

reginula said: "How foreign does Come From Away's Newfoundland feel to you? (I wouldn't be able to say, since my culture as a Mexican is completely different) but it feels like an honest representation. I'd like to hear what Newfies have to say about it but I guess they would feel comfortable with it overall. 

Well, Come From Away was written by Canadians (though not Newfoundlanders so it's still possible for them to get it wrong). And it's my understanding that Newfoundlanders don't like to be called Newfies.

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Updated On: 5/28/17 at 12:24 AM

[Call_me_jorge]

A Broadway Musical That Got A Foreign Culture Right?#6

Posted: 5/28/17 at 12:38am

the lion king, it's almost a mirror image of lion culture.

My father (AIDS) My sister (AIDS) My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS) The gays and the straights And the white and the spades

[binau]

A Broadway Musical That Got A Foreign Culture Right?#7

Posted: 5/28/17 at 1:27am

Kiss of the Spider Woman.

 

Just kidding.

Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.

[Wick3]

A Broadway Musical That Got A Foreign Culture Right?#8

Posted: 5/28/17 at 3:37am

Bombay Dreams

boy from oz

Here Lies Love (off bway)

 

Updated On: 5/28/17 at 03:37 AM

[Rainah]

A Broadway Musical That Got A Foreign Culture Right?#9

Posted: 5/28/17 at 4:45pm

reginula said: "How foreign does Come From Away's Newfoundland feel to you? (I wouldn't be able to say, since my culture as a Mexican is completely different) but it feels like an honest representation. I'd like to hear what Newfies have to say about it but I guess they would feel comfortable with it overall. "

My stepdad's a newfoundlander, saw it in toronto and loved it. In general I keep hearing that it's absolutely spot on for newfie culture.

[LuminousBeing]

A Broadway Musical That Got A Foreign Culture Right?#10

Posted: 5/28/17 at 7:04pm

"Invisible Thread," the criminally overlooked and underrated show that took place primarily in Uganda.