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re: Philly High School drops MILLIE after complaints of racism
Posted by: simbo 05:39 pm EST 12/26/15
In reply to: re: Philly High School drops MILLIE after complaints of racism - vegas 05:30 pm EST 12/26/15
Music Man is set in a conservative Iowa town in 1912. While, yes, you can cast asians as the various characters, the fact remains that in that time and that place, it's kinda improbable that an asian character would have been socially intergrated a whole heap. So yes, you can do it but it tends to mean you're pretending the past was a wildly lovely place in ways it really wasn't.
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