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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...
...scene from Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, a tale of love between an American navy officer and Japanese opera singer who kills herself after the officer abandons her. Here is what Rene has dreamt of his whole life: a beautiful woman who will submit to all his desires. Joseph Salonga played Song convincingly in a wig and ballet slippers, but could have projected better the seductive tone of his character's voice. I had difficulty making out some of his lines...
...Reason to see: It's about race and gender and culture and society and all sorts of politicized issues relevant to sensitive, educated people. But who are we kidding? Actually, we hear Joseph Salonga will present us his full frontal (male) nudity...
...suicide. Let those who may be considering the act recognize that suicide is the attempt to escape one's own pain, while the survivors--family and friends--are left to bob in the wake of the wreckage of a life that has gone off course. BARBARA OLDENBURG Fort Salonga, New York Via E-mail...
...Beast. "One Jump Ahead," by Menken and Rice, evokes the frenzy of the chase as Aladdin eludes the palace guard through the streets of the mythical kingdom of Agrabah. "A Whole New World," also by the creative team of Menken and Rice and performed by Brad Kane and Lea Salonga (Miss Saigon), propels us on an exciting magic carpet ride with Aladdin and Princess Jasmine...