Butterfly’s first revival, under the direction of Julie Taymor and featuring a script that Hwang has brushed up for 2017. Now the diplomat and the diva - the Western man and the “delicate Chinese girl,” the Traitor and the Spy - return to Broadway in M. The play is based both on Puccini’s romantic (and deeply problematic) tragedy of an opera, Madama Butterfly, and on the real-life affair between the Beijing opera singer Shei Pei Pu and French diplomat Bernard Boursicot, who for 20 years believed his male lover to be a woman. It also ran for almost two years - a remarkable feat considering its thematically ambitious, stranger-than-fiction story.
Wong in a career-making turn as the Chinese opera singer Song Liling). Butterfly made its Broadway debut almost 30 years ago, it took home the Tonys for Best Play, Best Direction, and Best Performance by a Featured Actor (B.
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