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DESCRIPTION:Apr 16 - May 31\, 2026\nThe social contract in the theater ain
 ’t what it used to be. Back in the day\, not so long ago\, audiences cou
 ld count on actors to explore their characters. Today\, it’s overwhelmin
 gly the case that actors shanghai their roles for purposes of self-celebra
 tion. The East West Players’ joyous and exceedingly peculiar revival of 
 Rodgers and Hammerstein’s intermittently comic but fundamentally earnest
  Chinatown musical of 1958 plays a lot less like The King and I or The Sou
 nd of Music than like La Cage aux Folles. I am what I am! David Henry Hwan
 g\, who did a radical overhaul of the show’s book once before\, now take
 s a second bite of the apple. Whereas the original novel by C. Y. Lee cont
 emplated the crumbling of Chinese tradition in the rough and tumble of the
  American experience\, Hwang celebrates the evolving cultures-within-cultu
 res of the generations that followed later. Fair enough. The show-stopping
  nightclub number hammers home the reigning metaphor. So what if chop suey
  isn’t Chinese from China? It’s authentic Chinese-American!
LOCATION:East West Players at Aratani Theatre\, 244 S. San Pedro St.\, Los 
 Angeles\, CA 90012\, United States
SUMMARY:Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song
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