Musical Butterfly
Isn’t there a musical about a drag queen? I thought it was Madame Butterfly or Miss Saigon but thats not it
I was thinking “musical” as in an Andrew Lloyd Weber type of production, but I have been proven wrong through internet research. I could have SWORN I learned about this musical or play when I was in high school. Am I crazy?
M. Butterfly, by David Henry Hwang,. Play & film versions. This widely acclaimed play, which premiered in 1988, still seems shocking because of the way it insidiously connects the American audience to current day issues related to war and gender as well as poking uncomfortable fun at things we love.
Told in a post-modern narrative by the main character, Rene Gallimard, a French diplomat who was posted to Beijing from 1960 to 1970, the play opens as the protagonist paces in a prison cell. Gallimard has been convicted of treason and tries desperately to account for himself, to himself. What has brought about his complete ruination, humiliation, and imprisonment is an affair with a Chinese actor whom Gallimard comes to call “Butterfly.” His fantasy is that Butterfly, as in Puccini’s tragic Madama Butterfly, represents the perfect woman. Unfortunately, Song Liling, Gallimard’s Butterfly, is a Mata Hari working for the Red Chinese government that hopes to topple the Americans waging a war of liberation in Vietnam.
Based on the real life story of the low-level French diplomat Bernard Bouriscot, this is a hard-to-believe tale of a man who has a 19-year affair with a person he believes to be a woman. Sixteen years since this play premiered, the gender of Butterfly no longer seems surprising and, after all, doesn’t M. Butterfly translate as Monsieur Butterfly? Yet what J. Hiroyuki Liao, as the submissive Chinese opera singer, achieves in the role still adds up to breath-stopping shock. Like the real life Mata Hari, Liao is tall. His face, even under the white geisha makeup, looks too angular to be the beautiful woman that Gallimard keeps describing and Liao’s movements, though graceful, seem more aggressively mannish than womanly. However, Liao’s figure and legs are convincingly feminine by Asian standards.
At the end of the play when Song Liling, who has already appeared as a man in a French court to testify against Gallimard, disrobes completely, it is hard to decide why one feels so shocked. Most theatergoers by now are not fazed by full frontal nudity. The dilemma resides in the extreme discomfort that Bogardus as Gallimard projects. Like Don Quixote, Gallimard has been forced to look into the mirror of reality. Unlike Don Quixote, Gallimard has learned the difference between fantasy and reality but consciously chooses fantasy and death in the manner of Madama Butterfly. Gallimard tells Song, “You showed me your true self when all I loved was a lie.” Thus, Hwang flip-flops who the tragic character is, such that Gallimard, who thinks of himself as the macho Pinkerton, husband of the bereft Madama Butterfly, is the one abandoned and disgraced.
Relaxing Piano Music by mark salona
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