How do intellectuals and scholars from minorities feel about the portrayal of ethnic groups on Broadway? How would we know? Few have the power to rate the good shows, and the flops, and be heard. The American critical fraternity as an exclusive club. Ishmael Reed and Carla Blank invited accomplished-but rarely heard-from-writers to reflect on the question: Lonely Christopher, Tommy Curry, Jack Foley, Emil Guillermo, Claire J. Harris, Yuri Kageyama, Soraya McDonald, Nancy Mercado, Aimee Phan, Betsy Theobald Richards, Shawn Wong, David Yearsley. Under review are Madame Butterfly, the Irving Berlin songbook, Oklahoma, South Pacific, Miss Saigon, Flower , Drum Song, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson The Color Purple, The Book of Mormon, West Side Story and Hamilton. The exclusive critical fraternity raved about these musicals. Reading the views of non-members, people will likely be saying, "Why has it taken so long?" Book jacket.