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Hey bway stan twitter here's your reminder to think before you stan Miss Saigon https://www.americantheatre.org/2017/04/13/i-am-miss-saigon-and-i-hate-it/
If you want to stan a show for Asian Representation stan shows with actual Asian people on their writing teams like Soft Power and Interstate
http://www.interstatemusical.com/music
http://www.interstatemusical.com/music
If you have to stan a show two white people wrote about Southeast Asian history stan Here Lies Love it doesn't have a white savior narrative
that being said it's def a controversial show for telling the story of military dictatorship with *fun disco music* so read up on the criticism of it too
https://crosscut.com/2017/05/a-filipinas-take-on-here-lies-love https://www.seattleglobalist.com/2017/05/03/seattle-reps-lies-love-sets-off-complex-recollections-marcos-regime/64749
https://crosscut.com/2017/05/a-filipinas-take-on-here-lies-love https://www.seattleglobalist.com/2017/05/03/seattle-reps-lies-love-sets-off-complex-recollections-marcos-regime/64749
At the end of the day however Interstate is probably the best of the shows I've mentioned here because its actually based on the writers' experiences and has LGBT rep
If you don't want to audition with anything from Miss Saigon but still want a song white girls aren't going to sing you could possibly use Higher from Allegiance. It's not as well-written musically or lyrically but it doesn't play into the same narratives https://www.tunescribers.com/5227/more-catalog/higher
I didn't include Allegiance in this thread bc it was written by two white dudes and a Chinese-American guy who were heavily criticized for not doing their research https://resisters.com/2015/10/27/allegiance-preview/
