The American playwright explains why favouring white actors on stage is a bad business model and publicly admits a secret about the Miss Saigon yellow-face controversy for the first timeI lied to producer Cameron Mackintosh. In 1991, Mackintosh had announced the Broadway transfer of his hit West End musical Miss Saigon, a retelling of Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly set against the backdrop of the Vietnam war. The …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM on May 12, 2014