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January 24, 2021 by christinessin, posted in Uncategorized

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abbygreen80
abigailthyra
- Racial and Gender Driven Narratives in Miss Saigon
- Newsies: Is the Ideal Man Too Limiting?
alexshen1
oconneam
achamp
- In the Heights: Representation Done Right
- Jack-yll and Hyde?
amayaallen
- The Black Magic of The Wiz! Live
- How Gender, Race and Fashion Intersect in (Ok)lahoma
andread3313
annabelle700
apark99
- Representation of Race + Gender in Cinderella: A Step Forward or Back?
- Gypsy: Parenting gone wrong, but perhaps not totally
audreymolina
- Racial Stereotypes Need to be Miss SaiGONE from Broadway
- Shakespeare Would Hate the Hopeful Ending of Gypsy
avadevlin123
bellamlachance
Ben Damir
bethanydisantis
- I See You Shiver With Antici…..disappointment
- Modern Femininity, Mama Rose, and Why She Deserved a Dream for Herself.
binulahi
- Rose: The Flawed Masterpiece of a Mother
brannnonn
- The Wonderful World of The Wiz Live!
brendan9143
- White Supremacy and American Imperialism in Newsies: A Conversation
Samantha Brener
- A Conversation Between Hadley S., Sam B., and Lily H. on The Wiz
- Tomboys, Brides, and Strippers: Femininity in Oklahoma! and Gypsy
Brooke Dennison
brycepalmer18
bunnyunior
cassajohnson
cgmonaco
- Through Rose-Tinted Glasses: Looking at a Descent Into Villainy
charlottegracelange
chloeanlyn07
- If Cinderella’s Shoe Fit, Why Did It Fall Off? and Other Questions About the Timeless Tale
- Chloe’s Crushes: an article about her varying taste in men and how they perpetuate gender roles
chloeelee24
- Mama Rose: Mother or Monster?
colegpotrock
colesherwood
- A Lasting Legacy
conniewuwhatsoever
- In the Heights, but where is the history?
- The Prom: Where Realness Was Lost From A Real Story
cullenpallen
- Fiddler on the Roof: Evolution of Tradition through Family
Cailin Bracken
devinbjr
- Breaking Stereotypes In High School Musical
- Essay 1:Identity on the Musical Stage
dondon615
Esther Ayoade
ejewkim
- Miss Saigon Shows More Power in the Form of a Broadway Musical than Pad Thai
- Gypsy asks: Are you REALLY unbiased?
elisedarbyy
Elise Miller
- Bring Back Manly Men
christinessin
Courtney Ellis
- Paving The Way for Strong Women
emmaalexanderr
- Everyone Deserves to be a Princess: An Analysis of Colorblind Casting in Cinderella
- The Patriarchy Works Hard but Bette Midler Works Harder
emrl12
- In The Heights: Being Reminded How Proud I am to be Puerto Rican
- Forced Romance- The Undoing of Jeff Calhoun’s Newsies
figaroca
graceallaman
- The Wiz Live!: Exploring Representation of Black Women On Stage
graceknor
grn727
- Behind the White Curtain: A Look into Racial Representation in Miss Saigon.
haleyyhopkins
- Brandy’s Wearing the Glass Slippers: The Importance of Representation in Cinderella (1997)
Will Henke
- Our Founding Fathers Were Bad Dads
- The Symbiosis of Sexism and Saigon
hfisher32
- Cinderella: Race Representation on a New Level
- The Newsies of Oklahoma!
ilanacohen3
iristseng1
- The Clouds Between the Sun and Moon
- Who would you swipe right on, Jack Kelly or Crutchie?
Jansen
jesszhang782
- Cultural Relevance? Not in Paris
- Gender Representation in The Prom, But Give it Some Zazz
jillyfuller
jlundquist00
- The Wiz: The Journey of Black America Behind the Curtain
juyoungkim304
- A Eulogy for My Hometown Store – In the Heights and Community
- Cinderella: A new decade, a new way to love you
kacyljones
kaiciekidd
- Resolved? How West Side Story Uses Music and More to Display its Message. (Podcast Episode)
kaylaeasonvanderbiltedu
kberlatsky1
khinchey99
kraftvr
- Beautiful All Along? Gypsy, Beauty Standards, and Expectations of Femininity
Margaret Mershon
margiejohns2
Matt Eyles
- The Wiz: a truly black narrative – Matt Eyles, Noa Adomakoh, Elise Miller
- From Leading Man to Leading Boy: a look at the “ideal male” throughout broadway history
matthewarcuri
- Harry Potter and the Riddikulus Musical
- Fiddling with Hamilton
mayaparness
megantwalters
meggraziano
- 2013 Cinderella: A Diversified Take on a Classic Fairytale
Melissa Dunn
meredithsalmon
- How to Balance Culture and Other Themes in Fiddler on the Roof
- “GET YOUR PAPES RIGHT HERE”
morganebaxendalevanderbiltedu
Kate Murphy
- Tradition(s?): The Limitations of Fiddler on the Roof
- Newsboys to OklahoMen
peachzreviews
- The Power of Black Excellence in a Musical Production
- World’s Best Mama
Myles Stute
- Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella – Myles and Tyrin
natalievitols
- Fiddler on the Roof: How Ethnicity Molds Identity
nateclifton
- Shrek if it was reimagined in 2021
- The Modernized Cinderella
nelsonberkwich
- Essay 2 Podcast
Kevin Nguyen
- Men of Red White and Blue: Saints or Sinners?
- Laurey, What Happened to You
nicoleanderson2020
noachiara
- Newsies was a Dream, but Dreams can also Include Nightmares
odonofrio
- “You Wouldn’t Stab a Child!”: A Discussion on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Miss Saigon
- Katherine Deserved Better: How Newsies Fails at Feminism
oheaner
osigweec
paige.adams
- Jack + Rose (+ huge age gap + no love affair + no boat)
patreillyy
- Classical Rendition Meets Modern Ideals: Cinderella the 1997 Remake
peytonboyd
pmazagwu
- Black Representation in The Wiz Live!
- Masculinity and its Many Forms in Newsies!
Caroline Pope
- “How Do You Like Them Eggrolls, Mr. Goldman?”: Female Sexuality as a Means to Power in a Male-Dominated World
priyasankaran1
remikw1
remyricciardi
- Stereotypes Imbedded Into Barry Glickman; The Prom
Rose Nguyen
Ryan Stefiuk
- Miss Saigon
Samuel Goodyear-Brown
- I Just Really Love White Christmas
- Not Too Lesbian for a Kids’ Movie – Where The Prom Went Wrong
sbhuntley
schuylerkresge
Schyler Rowland
scottpdouglas1
- Anatevka – The Unbreakable
- Miss Saigon – An Epic Story of Stereotypes
selibuatsi
- History In Color
- The White Woman Will Always Win- How White Privilege Hinders Feminism
sisungaj
sjcohen0710
- Miss Saigon: Why We’re More Obsessed with America than Anything Else
- What a Man, What a Man… Wait, Which One Are You Talking About?
sleuthsr21
- (The Expectation of ) How To Be Your Own Man
starmatthew1
- Miss Saigon: Put Simply, Why?
- Dear Broadway: If You Hate Women, Just Say That
stevewang34
- I’ll Make a (Wo)Man Out of You
- Don’t be Gay in Indiana (or as a Straight Man)
tinahle1
- Miss Saigon: Asian Representation Manufactured by American Entertainment
tobiakisanya
warddavid
- Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat of Progress
- Anna, Fanny, and a Puzzlement Concerning Powerful Women
willijp8
- What it might mean to be an American
willshep14
- Will Sheppard: Blackness Within the Princess and the Frog
- Stereotypes Within The Prom
wslopes
- The Idealism of Jack Kelly
Xinyi Wang
zmulraine
zoeantell
- The Wiz Live – A Tribute to Black Culture
- The Ironic Duality: Newsies fight to break the system while perpetuating another

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The Critics

abbygreen80
abigailthyra
- Racial and Gender Driven Narratives in Miss Saigon
- Newsies: Is the Ideal Man Too Limiting?
alexshen1
oconneam
achamp
- In the Heights: Representation Done Right
- Jack-yll and Hyde?
amayaallen
- The Black Magic of The Wiz! Live
- How Gender, Race and Fashion Intersect in (Ok)lahoma
andread3313
annabelle700
apark99
- Representation of Race + Gender in Cinderella: A Step Forward or Back?
- Gypsy: Parenting gone wrong, but perhaps not totally
audreymolina
- Racial Stereotypes Need to be Miss SaiGONE from Broadway
- Shakespeare Would Hate the Hopeful Ending of Gypsy
avadevlin123
bellamlachance
Ben Damir
bethanydisantis
- I See You Shiver With Antici…..disappointment
- Modern Femininity, Mama Rose, and Why She Deserved a Dream for Herself.
binulahi
- Rose: The Flawed Masterpiece of a Mother
brannnonn
- The Wonderful World of The Wiz Live!
brendan9143
- White Supremacy and American Imperialism in Newsies: A Conversation
Samantha Brener
- A Conversation Between Hadley S., Sam B., and Lily H. on The Wiz
- Tomboys, Brides, and Strippers: Femininity in Oklahoma! and Gypsy
Brooke Dennison
brycepalmer18
bunnyunior
cassajohnson
cgmonaco
- Through Rose-Tinted Glasses: Looking at a Descent Into Villainy
charlottegracelange
chloeanlyn07
- If Cinderella’s Shoe Fit, Why Did It Fall Off? and Other Questions About the Timeless Tale
- Chloe’s Crushes: an article about her varying taste in men and how they perpetuate gender roles
chloeelee24
- Mama Rose: Mother or Monster?
colegpotrock
colesherwood
- A Lasting Legacy
conniewuwhatsoever
- In the Heights, but where is the history?
- The Prom: Where Realness Was Lost From A Real Story
cullenpallen
- Fiddler on the Roof: Evolution of Tradition through Family
Cailin Bracken
devinbjr
- Breaking Stereotypes In High School Musical
- Essay 1:Identity on the Musical Stage
dondon615
Esther Ayoade
ejewkim
- Miss Saigon Shows More Power in the Form of a Broadway Musical than Pad Thai
- Gypsy asks: Are you REALLY unbiased?
elisedarbyy
Elise Miller
- Bring Back Manly Men
christinessin
Courtney Ellis
- Paving The Way for Strong Women
emmaalexanderr
- Everyone Deserves to be a Princess: An Analysis of Colorblind Casting in Cinderella
- The Patriarchy Works Hard but Bette Midler Works Harder
emrl12
- In The Heights: Being Reminded How Proud I am to be Puerto Rican
- Forced Romance- The Undoing of Jeff Calhoun’s Newsies
figaroca
graceallaman
- The Wiz Live!: Exploring Representation of Black Women On Stage
graceknor
grn727
- Behind the White Curtain: A Look into Racial Representation in Miss Saigon.
haleyyhopkins
- Brandy’s Wearing the Glass Slippers: The Importance of Representation in Cinderella (1997)
Will Henke
- Our Founding Fathers Were Bad Dads
- The Symbiosis of Sexism and Saigon
hfisher32
- Cinderella: Race Representation on a New Level
- The Newsies of Oklahoma!
ilanacohen3
iristseng1
- The Clouds Between the Sun and Moon
- Who would you swipe right on, Jack Kelly or Crutchie?
Jansen
jesszhang782
- Cultural Relevance? Not in Paris
- Gender Representation in The Prom, But Give it Some Zazz
jillyfuller
jlundquist00
- The Wiz: The Journey of Black America Behind the Curtain
juyoungkim304
- A Eulogy for My Hometown Store – In the Heights and Community
- Cinderella: A new decade, a new way to love you
kacyljones
kaiciekidd
- Resolved? How West Side Story Uses Music and More to Display its Message. (Podcast Episode)
kaylaeasonvanderbiltedu
kberlatsky1
khinchey99
kraftvr
- Beautiful All Along? Gypsy, Beauty Standards, and Expectations of Femininity
Margaret Mershon
margiejohns2
Matt Eyles
- The Wiz: a truly black narrative – Matt Eyles, Noa Adomakoh, Elise Miller
- From Leading Man to Leading Boy: a look at the “ideal male” throughout broadway history
matthewarcuri
- Harry Potter and the Riddikulus Musical
- Fiddling with Hamilton
mayaparness
megantwalters
meggraziano
- 2013 Cinderella: A Diversified Take on a Classic Fairytale
Melissa Dunn
meredithsalmon
- How to Balance Culture and Other Themes in Fiddler on the Roof
- “GET YOUR PAPES RIGHT HERE”
morganebaxendalevanderbiltedu
Kate Murphy
- Tradition(s?): The Limitations of Fiddler on the Roof
- Newsboys to OklahoMen
peachzreviews
- The Power of Black Excellence in a Musical Production
- World’s Best Mama
Myles Stute
- Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella – Myles and Tyrin
natalievitols
- Fiddler on the Roof: How Ethnicity Molds Identity
nateclifton
- Shrek if it was reimagined in 2021
- The Modernized Cinderella
nelsonberkwich
- Essay 2 Podcast
Kevin Nguyen
- Men of Red White and Blue: Saints or Sinners?
- Laurey, What Happened to You
nicoleanderson2020
noachiara
- Newsies was a Dream, but Dreams can also Include Nightmares
odonofrio
- “You Wouldn’t Stab a Child!”: A Discussion on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Miss Saigon
- Katherine Deserved Better: How Newsies Fails at Feminism
oheaner
osigweec
paige.adams
- Jack + Rose (+ huge age gap + no love affair + no boat)
patreillyy
- Classical Rendition Meets Modern Ideals: Cinderella the 1997 Remake
peytonboyd
pmazagwu
- Black Representation in The Wiz Live!
- Masculinity and its Many Forms in Newsies!
Caroline Pope
- “How Do You Like Them Eggrolls, Mr. Goldman?”: Female Sexuality as a Means to Power in a Male-Dominated World
priyasankaran1
remikw1
remyricciardi
- Stereotypes Imbedded Into Barry Glickman; The Prom
Rose Nguyen
Ryan Stefiuk
- Miss Saigon
Samuel Goodyear-Brown
- I Just Really Love White Christmas
- Not Too Lesbian for a Kids’ Movie – Where The Prom Went Wrong
sbhuntley
schuylerkresge
Schyler Rowland
scottpdouglas1
- Anatevka – The Unbreakable
- Miss Saigon – An Epic Story of Stereotypes
selibuatsi
- History In Color
- The White Woman Will Always Win- How White Privilege Hinders Feminism
sisungaj
sjcohen0710
- Miss Saigon: Why We’re More Obsessed with America than Anything Else
- What a Man, What a Man… Wait, Which One Are You Talking About?
sleuthsr21
- (The Expectation of ) How To Be Your Own Man
starmatthew1
- Miss Saigon: Put Simply, Why?
- Dear Broadway: If You Hate Women, Just Say That
stevewang34
- I’ll Make a (Wo)Man Out of You
- Don’t be Gay in Indiana (or as a Straight Man)
tinahle1
- Miss Saigon: Asian Representation Manufactured by American Entertainment
tobiakisanya
warddavid
- Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat of Progress
- Anna, Fanny, and a Puzzlement Concerning Powerful Women
willijp8
- What it might mean to be an American
willshep14
- Will Sheppard: Blackness Within the Princess and the Frog
- Stereotypes Within The Prom
wslopes
- The Idealism of Jack Kelly
Xinyi Wang
zmulraine
zoeantell
- The Wiz Live – A Tribute to Black Culture
- The Ironic Duality: Newsies fight to break the system while perpetuating another

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