Musical Theatre - A Synthesis of Different Cultures

Musical theatre is a synthesis and cultural appropriation of different things by russian jewish immigrants as as part of an effort to join whiteness. I was very much, i had a lot of asian self, internalized hate, cause your appearents made you wat south pacific when you were little. So in some ways, it's not surprising to learn that both my high school and tom hanks's mounted productions over the course of multiple decades. And yet, i think that that's definitely why i write the kind of music i write.