{"id":14690,"date":"2007-09-17T12:58:40","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T19:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/09\/17\/west-end-stages-an-invasion-of-china-musicals-market-clifford-coonan\/"},"modified":"2007-09-17T12:58:40","modified_gmt":"2007-09-17T19:58:40","slug":"west-end-stages-an-invasion-of-china-musicals-market-clifford-coonan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/09\/west-end-stages-an-invasion-of-china-musicals-market-clifford-coonan\/","title":{"rendered":"West End Stages an Invasion of China Musicals Market &#8211; Clifford Coonan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe Independent looks at the production of Mandarin-language versions of popular Broadway and West End musicals:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/thumbnail\/cameron_mackintosh.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/thumbnail\/cameron_mackintosh.jpg','popup','width=400,height=200,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/thumbnail\/cameron_mackintosh-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Cameron Mackintosh\" \/><\/a>To Western audiences, musicals may be a frothy and uplifting way to spend the evening, but like so much else, they are highly politicised in China. For many years, not a chorus line nor a technicolour dreamcoat were to be had. The only musicals you could see were propaganda displays, including the stirring <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Red_Detachment_of_Women\" target=\"_blank\">The Red Detachment of Women<\/a>, a ballet about a fearsome unit of the People&#8217;s Liberation Army. Gymnastics displays and acrobatic shows were the order of the day.<\/p>\n<p>For many years <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cameron_Mackintosh\" target=\"_blank\">Mackintosh<\/a> tried to stage shows in China but was constantly foiled by bureaucratic red tape. Then, in June 2002, he became the first Westerner to stage a musical in China when he put on an English-language production of Les Mis\u221a\u00a9rables in Shanghai. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/world\/asia\/article2964472.ece\" target=\"_blank\">[Full text]<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nSee also &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/foreign\/richardspencer\/sept2007\/musicals-in-china.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Chinese bureaucrats welcome musicals &#8211; with a wry smile<\/a>&#8221; from Richard Spencer&#8217;s blog.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n[Image of Cameron Mackintosh via Richard Spencer&#8217;s blog]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent looks at the production of Mandarin-language versions of popular Broadway and West End musicals: To Western audiences, musicals may be a frothy and uplifting way to spend the evening, but like so much else, they are highly politicised in China. 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