A Broadway Musical That Got A Foreign Culture Right?
A Broadway Musical That Got A Foreign Culture Right?
#1 A Broadway Musical That Got A Foreign Culture Right?
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?
#2 A Broadway Musical That Got A Foreign Culture Right?
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
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#3 A Broadway Musical That Got A Foreign Culture Right?
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.
#4 A Broadway Musical That Got A Foreign Culture Right?
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.
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#5 A Broadway Musical That Got A Foreign Culture Right?
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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#6 A Broadway Musical That Got A Foreign Culture Right?
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
#7 A Broadway Musical That Got A Foreign Culture Right?
Posted: 5/28/17 at 1:27am
Kiss of the Spider Woman.
Just kidding.
When my goodbye post was removed: “but I had a great dramatic finish!!!!”
#8 A Broadway Musical That Got A Foreign Culture Right?
Posted: 5/28/17 at 3:37am
Bombay Dreams
boy from oz
Here Lies Love (off bway)
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#9 A Broadway Musical That Got A Foreign Culture Right?
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.
#10 A Broadway Musical That Got A Foreign Culture Right?
Posted: 5/28/17 at 7:04pm
"Invisible Thread," the criminally overlooked and underrated show that took place primarily in Uganda.
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