Can anyone suggest a musical set in China? — Page 2

There's also the 1928 Rodgers and Hart musical, Chee-Chee. This also had a very nice whimsical little song in it, Moon of My Delight, sung also, quite delightully, by Mary Martin on an album of Rodgers songs.

Why not expand your horizons a bit and fill your ipod with Puccini's fabulous opera Turandot - not only set in China but with many authentic Chinese themes.

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"Why not expand your horizons a bit and fill your ipod with Puccini's fabulous opera Turandot - not only set in China but with many authentic Chinese themes."

Amen to that. One of the greatest scores ever. Try listening to "Gloria Gloria O Vincitore" as you arrive - BRILLIANT!

From there to the end of Act II is particularly perfect and atmospheric!

nomdeplume, I'm from Hong Kong AND live in the New Territories! I am highly insulted by your comments on my hometown. You can call China communist (cuz they are) but Hong Kong is not at all like this. Yes there are a lot more mainland and taiwanese tourists in Hong Kong now who are rude but Hong Kong is still an exceptionally good place to visit for tourists. This is what happens to international cities when they are so many different people in the city, London, New York especially are no less different! I've been treated poorly by some Spanish and Mexican tourists in New York, SAME THING! Thailand is an amazing place to visit but you just cannot compare the two, it is just like comparing Sondheim with Kander & Ebb, both are good and each to their own tastes.
I have no idea how bad your experience in China or Hong Kong was but I have friends from all over the world to visit me all the time and all they ever complain about is the hot weather and how crowded the place is. But I guess you should've expected that WHEN you have decided to come and it's just part of the experience and culture! If you can't take it, don't come, don't go anywhere in fact, stay and sit at home and watch Discovery Channel and play with your cats.

Speaking from experience as well, Asia is no less dangerous than a lot of countries in Europe (Czech, Turkey, Marrakesh..etc). people feel more threatened somehow in Asia because it is more 'exotic' and they have no scope of the language at all.

To the original poster: They are currently playing a first Chinese Broadway musical in Shanghai right now 'Mamma Mia', and I believe West End's ZORRO is touring to Shanghai soon too. I saw it in London and it was surprisingly fantastic, hope you can watch it!

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A new show is supposed to open in the West End next year set in China called "Sacrifice"
Sacrifice website

"I apologize for my poor knowledge of Geography. I would also like to apologize to the many Scandinavians whom I have hurt with my aforementioned knowledge.

Just curious: Where did you think Scandinavia was?

Mulan soundtrack in Mandarin
https://castalbums.org/recordings/Hua-Mu-Lan-/6205

"Umm... CharlesJGuiteau, A Little Night Music is based on the film SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT made by legendary SWEDISH director Ingmar Bergman, It's not set or based on anything from Scandinavia."

And, Mr. Guiteau, it should also be pointed out that Zorba is based on the novel, Zorba the Greek by the legendary GREEK novelist, Nikos Kazantzakis. It's not set (well actually it's set on Crete and Kazantzakis was Cretan but after all Crete is at least partially a part of Greece although it wasn't when Kazantzakis was born and may not have been at the time the story is set, I can't remember offhand, but that's a whole other megilah...) or based on anything from Greece.

Apologies, Addie, but I just couldn't resist

thelateorratherlater

and, not, incidentally, quite Scandinavian, invention of the equally Scandinavian auteur Ingmar Berman

H.E.

Updated On: 8/29/11 at 05:08 PM

I am literally laughing out loud at my mistake. I don't know what was going through my head to think Sweden was not part of Sc., but what whatever it was, it's gone and my mind is back to normal, at least I think it is. Thanks for the responses!

A good look at the political history and situation of Hong Kong, which has some autonomy ("one country, two systems"), but only until 2047, unfortunately.

"...Britain ruled Hong Kong as a "benevolent autocracy" from start to finish. Political reforms designed to prepare all its other colonies for evolution toward elected self-government were not introduced until the 1980s, after Beijing declared its intention to take back Hong Kong. The first direct election for a few legislators by universal suffrage was not held until 1991, giving British negotiators little right to demand that Beijing include Western-style democratic self-government in the package of guarantees."
2047: The Writing on the Wall

Updated On: 8/29/11 at 06:45 PM

I've always found it best to listen to Tenderloin on 14th Street, I Can Get It For You Wholesale in the West 30s, How Now, Dow Jones on Wall St., Saturday Night in Flatbush, Guys and Dolls in Times Square, Rags on the Lower East Side, Funny Girl on Henry St., on my way to the Ziegfeld, or in a tugboat in the harbor, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn in Williamsburg, Hello Dolly in Yonkers or while shopping for a hat downtown, How to Succeed in New Rochelle, Promises, Promises when I'm being stood up outside the Garden, and Sweet Charity whenever I wake up in a stranger's midtown hotel room.

@henrik, What, no SeeSaw at Lincoln Center? On The Town at Battery Park? Follies in Washington Heights?

Frankly I've never felt the need to lay any outside soundtrack onto my treasured trips to New York. Humming Broadway tunes in the vicinity of Broadway just seemed redundant somehow. :)