Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
i am really interested in seeing this... sounds pretty cool
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/151244-Little-Mermaid-in-Philippines-Will-Be-Divided-By-Eastern-and-Western-Worlds
Hopefully this production will have the necessary beautiful visuals that the Broadway production lacked.
A U.S. national tour had been announced, but never surfaced.
Oh, Playbill. You're so witty!
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
The Indonesian Wayang shadow puppets and the Thai nang talung (which must be what they mean for "nang kaloung" - possibly some Cambodian variant of the term) are all related back to carrying the tales of the great Hindu epics and strongly rooted in Southeast Asia.
But the Japanese Bunraku? Way off in culture and style as miniature lifelike against the other, decorously stylized. I don't get the mix of puppets at all.
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