‘KPOP’ Composer Helen Park, Star John Yi on Musical’s Representational Impact and Broadway’s AAPI Inclusion

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‘KPOP’ Composer Helen Park, Star John Yi on Musical’s Representational Impact and Broadway’s AAPI Inclusion
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In an emotional panel discussion supported by The Asian American Foundation in collaboration with Gold House, AAPAC and Ma-Yi Theater Company, the 'KPOP' creatives and other notable members of the theater industry's Asian community said goodbye for now to the history-making production.

finale barreled up the stairs of W. 50th’s Circle on the Square Theatre and through its upper lobby, where the excited cheers of a stacked house spiked against the heart-pounding beat of “Blast Off” like an aural electrocardiogram.

For those not able to get tickets, a live stream captured that same swirl of noise — half cheers, half claps, all glowsticks — amid the sea of bodies pressed to the ’s walls. The room’s buzzy energy mirrored both the messages captured for days by the show’s Instagram story, as well as what had awaited‘s composer Helen Park and several of its stars only the night before at a rally outside in the alley it shares with the Gershwin Theatre.

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