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...show starts from the original point of departure--a Chinese girl, Mei-Li (Lea Salonga, who starred in Miss Saigon), gets off the boat and arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown--but Hwang has taken all the pieces apart and put them back together in a new configuration. The tradition-bound patriarch (Randall Duk Kim) is now the owner of a Chinatown theater, where he stages Chinese opera to sparse crowds, while his son (Jose Llana) tries to modernize the place with glitzy American-style shows. Some of Hwang's rewrite is too clever by half: midway through the evening...
...Hwang has made the show a richer, more nuanced exploration of the immigrant experience. One new character, a laborer who wants to take Mei-Li back to Hong Kong ("They try so hard to fit in," he says of his assimilation-minded countrymen, "they don't even know who they are"), reminds us that there were many left out of the American Dream. Hwang is more respectful of the old characters too: the sexy nightclub singer Linda Low (Sandra Allen) was a conniving man eater in the old show; now she's a warm, sisterly and surprisingly full-blooded character...
Director Robert Longbottom (Side Show) skillfully adds Asian seasoning to a gourmet spread of Broadway showmanship. In the opening scenes, Mei-Li's escape from China is pantomimed simply, with the help of bamboo poles manipulated by actors. In the big production number Chop Suey, the chorus girls are dressed as Chinese-takeout boxes. Even that delightfully retro standard I Enjoy Being a Girl, which starts in Linda's dressing room and ends as a number at the club, comes roaring back as if it were brand...
...thought, 'Why not?' I didn't want to look back at 65 and wonder 'what if?'" Ultimately, Chen opted to sign not with EEG but with Century Elements, the new artist-management and recording subsidiary of China International Trust & Investment Corp. (CITIC). The deal was championed by Li Bolun, chairman of the company and another of Chen's father's friends...
...Note that Ludacris’ words are extraordinarily tame compared to Foxy Brown’s verse on “What’s Your Fantasy (Remix),” where she demands “li-li-li-lick me from my ass to my clit.” We agree that either of us attempting a sexual union with Foxy Brown would end up dead or, at least, blinded from the eyebrows down...