Word: pryce
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trouble began when British producer Cameron Mackintosh announced that Jonathan Pryce would reprise his starring role in the Broadway edition of Miss Saigon, the London blockbuster musical that sets the Madama Butterfly story in the Vietnam War. Pryce had won an Olivier Award as the French-Vietnamese pimp who helps effect a poignant reunion between an American soldier and the Vietnamese girl he left behind...
...casting of an English actor in a Eurasian part affronted some Asian Americans, including playwright David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly). Last week the board of Actors' Equity -- a union representing 40,000 U.S. performers and maintaining a reciprocal arrangement with its British counterpart -- refused to grant Pryce permission to appear on Broadway because he is not Asian. So far, so predictable: Mackintosh was expected to take the matter to arbitration and win his case, while the protesters reaped some sympathy and publicity...