Feb 28, 2006 — 3:11:51 AM
For those of you who do not know, M. Butterfly is a Tony Award winning play (1986?) that flips the Madam Butterfly Opera inside out and examines stereotypes and gender/racial issues. It is, in many ways, the anti-Madam Butterfly and fills viewers with a new perspective on an old story (stereotype.) It forever changed my life...
A few years later, Miss Saigon took the story of Madam Butterfly and retold it in a contemporary setting. It did further the stereotype of Asian Women and was,