>why is this musical so popular? My wife loves it and I listened to parts of it and it has some really catchy rap. She never got into hip-hop culture, so I thi

>why is this musical so popular? My wife loves it and I listened to parts of it and it has some really catchy rap. She never got into hip-hop culture, so I think this is the the big breakthrough for a lot of white middle-class and higher theater/musical people who previously found this stuff inaccessible. This is pretty much Kanye for housewives and grandmas. Its non-threatening and if there is anything controversial about it, its a manufactured controversy that's safe to partake in.