Tomorrow is the opening night of Gasleak's latest production: Thoroughly Modern Millie. I've spent most of this weekend at the theatre for various rehearsals - band call, technical rehearsal and dress - and am now looking forward to doing it in front of an audience. You can read all about the show here.
As you can (hopefully) tell, I am playing the part of a chinaman (Ching Ho) and I, along with my (much older) brother, Bun Foo, provide plenty of comedy. Our lines are all in Cantonese and our songs in Mandarin, and we have taken a great deal of pride in getting our pronunciation as near-perfect as possible. The director's wife is Chinese, and she assures us we are doing pretty well!
Mrs Meers is in the picture with us. She is the baddie in the show - drugging vulnerable young women and shipping them off into white slavery in Hong Kong. Boo, hiss!
1 comment:
OK. As long as there is no racial stereotyping going on ;) What was that James Bond movie where they turned him Chinese?
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