Why 'KPOP,' the first Broadway show to tell a Korean story, closed
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“We started a fire of a real change and good that can happen on Broadway,” said Helen Park, whose work on the show made her the first Asian female composer on Broadway, “and we still had to quickly turn it off.”
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