An open letter penned by actor BD Wong condemning the Maybe Happy Ending casting of a white actor in a role originally filled by an actor of Filipino descent has garnered more than 2,400 signatures. Among them the signers: Broadway actors Conrad Ricamora, Anthony Rapp, Joaquina Kalukango, Jon Jon Briones, Telly Leung and many others.

“This deserves attention,” writes Wong ( M. Butterfly, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ). “To put it simply: Asian Actors and the Asian Theatergoing Community are fiercely wrestling over a non-Asian actor replacing the Asian male lead in the Broadway musical Maybe Happy Ending . Please google this responsibly. It’s a real, eternal outcry about race and representation, not an irrational rant about robots.

“I posted this longform essay about it,

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