Statement from the DON’T BUY MISS SAIGON COALITION October 13, 2013 Point of clarification: there seems to be quite a few uninformed people trying to misrepresent our struggle as “activists versus actors,” going so far as to make statements such as “I stand with Orville…
by ROB HUBBARD via Pioneer Press October 9, 2013 By Rob Hubbard Special to the Pioneer Press There weren’t a lot of great new Broadway musicals surfacing in the early ’90s, so audiences settled for “Miss Saigon,” turning a poorly written piece of musical theater…
by JOHN OLIVE via How Was the Show? October 8, 2013 Why do we go to the theater? For the acting. Actors amaze and thrill us with their uncanny ability to become something else, to overcome the pain and sorrow of their existence. To triumph,…
by HLEE LEE & SHEILA REGAN via The UpTake October 8, 2013 UpTake Video by Hlee Lee/Story for The UpTake by Sheila Regan Click here to watch Hlee Lee’s video of Don’t Buy Miss Saigon: The Unity Event. More than 200 protesters sounded off in…
by KATHRYN G. NELSON & SHEILA REGAN via The UpTake Originally published October 8, 2013 Miss Saigon: Protesters in New York City in 1991. Despite more than two decades of cultural-awareness actions, the show — and the protest — goes on. Photo by Corky Lee….
by GUANTE via Why Is Guante So Angry? October 09, 2013 (photo of the Don’t Buy Miss Saigon unity event outside the Ordway) If you follow my blog or my regular Opine Season column, you may notice that I talk a lot about social justice…
by MARIANNE COMBS via MPR October 9, 2013 More than 200 protesters took over Rice Park Tuesday night to demonstrate against the opening of the musical “Miss Saigon” at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts. “Miss Saigon” features a love story between an American…
by AANEWS via Asian American Press October 5, 2013 On the opening night of “Miss Saigon” at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, community members who have organized in protest of the production will hold a peaceful event for the public to gather in…
“ Miss Saigon is filled with a myriad of racist and sexist depictions of APAs…. It is unacceptable that racism against the APA community continues to be defended as artistic freedom when equally racist caricatures of other racial groups, such as mammies, are avoided. Similarly,…
by TOM L. HAYASHI of OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates A letter to Patricia Mitchell and the Ordway Center for Performing Arts: I am writing on behalf of OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates, a national membership driven organization dedicated to advancing the political,…
