Shanghai Lil's
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 16, 2011
Closed Nov 27, 2011
Opened Nov 16, 2011
Closed Nov 27, 2011
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http://www.panasianrep.org
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Shanghai Lil's is set in a 1940's San Francisco nightclub. In a world where the American musical embodies the optimism of boy-meets-girl romance and the American Dream, a cast of Asian American performers charm their audience with song, dance and comedy in spite of the looming specter of WWII and internment.
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If all you ask of a musical is a basic love story embellished by middling song and dance sequences of no discernible distinction, Pan Asian Repertory Theatre's revival of the company's 1997 tuner, Shanghai Lil's, at the West End Theater, might suffice. We've come to expect more, however, and this show, with its predictable book and torturously simplistic lyrics by Lilah Kan, set to plodding music by Louis Stewart, is just not very engaging.
The setting is San Francisco's Chinatown during the fall of 1941 (so we know, though the characters don't, the turmoil that world history has in store). Shopworn dancer/chanteuse Mei-mei (Jaygee Macapugay), growing weary of a gypsy's peripatetic life a[...]