American Musical to Be Performed in Mandarin
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Beginning May 9, the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre and Broadway Asia Entertainment will co-produce the musical I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change at New York’s Westside Theatre. The production will run through June 3. This will be the first time in history that a foreign production of an American musical will play inside the United States. The show will be entirely in Mandarin Chinese, with English subtitles projected above the stage.
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