title: hispanic crowd boos marco rubio off stage
text: students to protest mikado for lack of engagement with controversial past derek g xiao harvard crimson october   
  a group of asian american students is planning to protest the harvardradcliffe gilbert and sullivan players upcoming production of the mikado for how it handles the racial stereotypes that characterize traditional performances of the opera 
  organized by george s qiao  the group of students had publicized their protest over various email lists describing what they consider inadequate attempts to remove the japanese stereotypes and appropriation of japanese culture that remained latent in the adapted productions storyline but later qiao said that he thought the tone of his initial concerns was unfair to the players 
  i fully believe that members of the gilbert and sullivan players put their blood sweat and tears into trying to improve this staging of the production qiao said however i believe that there is still insufficient critical engagement with this plays history of japanese cultural misrepresentation 
  penned in  the mikado is a comical opera set in the fictional japanese town of titipu and meant to satirically mask criticism of british political culture and bureaucracy with grossly exaggerated asian names and stereotypical cultural caricatures 
  snip hoping to avoid these issues in their own production the board of the gilbert and sullivan players made some changes to the setting and script of the opera characterizing their rendition as a reimagining of the original production 
  the board of the harvardradcliffe gilbert  sullivan players whose mission is to produce the full canon of gilbert and sullivans shows faced a dilemma this past january kathleen c zhou  the president of the players wrote in an oped for the crimson tuesday strike the mikado from our season and ignore one of the most problematic but wellknown gs shows or try to confront it by reimagining it and subverting authorial intent 
  the setting of their show is no longer the th century town of titipu and instead is now th century las vegas themed oriental hotel and the opening number gentlemen of japan has been rewritten as gentlemen of the strip 
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  zhou said in an interview that in rethinking the comical operas script the complete omission of all of the original productions issues was an erasure in itself in that it does not acknowledge how problematic the show has been to asians 
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