When I first sat down at The Public Theater over a year ago to watch Soft Power, I didn't know what to expect- I just knew that one of my favorite playwrights David Henry Hwang had created a musical with Jeanine Tesori and an almost entirely Asian cast, which I'm all for. I didn't know that Soft Power would become one of my favorite musicals.
Soft Power is a fever dream musical that flips typical Eurocentric musical standards on its' head.