What I Think About When I Hear That Broadway is Racist

medium.com/@heathcliffsaunders: I’m a musical theater writer. I look pretty unusual in the world of musical theater writers, in the sense that I am not a cisgender gay white man, but today, you might specifically notice that I look unusual in that world because of my Black body. You don’t see a lot of Black bodies in the world of musical theater writers. Frankly, you don’t see a lot of Black bodies anywhere in musical theater. There’s been a recent surge in musicals that use Black bodies on stage — which gives the illusion that there are a lot of Black bodies in musical theater — but that’s pretty much limited to just the stage.