The lie is the word white. Isolating it as "without a white celebrity" ...
It is hard FOR ANY SHOW play or musical to make it without a celebrity. Had Lil' Nas X stepped into A Strange Loop, it would be running a lot longer (I know he's not fat, I'm just picking an example... but hell, if Alex Newell did it might even run longer)... if Alecia Keys went into Great Comet, that would have run a lot longer.
Does she really think no show without a WHITE celebrity can succeed on Broadway? That's just false.
It's also hard for a new musical without a pop catalogue to make it, very very very hard. That's not unique to a kpop musical. But what is unique to a kpop musical is that it's a KPOP musical! They are trying to sell a show with and about a genre of music that doesn't have nearly the kind of fandom they must think it does within the ticket-buying audiences. And their marketing failed, and the word of mouth was bad. Not because people don't like non-white shows.
There's a much larger more nuanced conversation to have here, but the point seems to just be to divide between all white people and all non-white people, and to blame white people. And certainly nothing I say is going to change that. |
