| Don't chop "Chop Suey"! | |
| Last Edit: WaymanWong 11:06 am EST 12/19/17 | |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 11:04 am EST 12/19/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Cut "Chop Suey"? - Delvino 10:20 am EST 12/19/17 | |
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| For the record, I've always loved the original ''Flower Drum Song'' AND David Henry Hwang's revisal. I know many folks consider it second-tier Rodgers & Hammerstein, but for my money, it's got a terrific score: ''You Are Beautiful,'' ''A Hundred Million Miracles,'' ''I Enjoy Being a Girl,'' ''Grant Avenue,'' and one of their best ballads, ''Love, Look Away.'' Many of today's musicals (to me) don't have a score that could hold a candle to those tunes. And ''Chop Suey'' is a delightful metaphor for the mix of the East and West; it's a dish that was created in America, not China. Moreover, ''Flower Drum Song'' always has had a soft spot in my heart. If you see Asians in a Broadway musical, it's as exotics and foreigners who speak funny: ''The King and I,'' ''Miss Saigon,'' etc. As an Asian-American, it made me proud to see us depicted as Americans in the good ol' USA. |
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