Swimming with Watermelons
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 11, 2002
Closed Apr 26, 2002
Opened Apr 11, 2002
Closed Apr 26, 2002
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Swimming with Watermelons is a new music-theatre piece with a score comprised of 20 hit songs from the 1940s. The story centers on the romance between a young Japanese woman and an American GI during the post-World War II American occupation of Japan. Women play American soldiers as well as Japanese and German woman. The piece has been conceieved and directed by husband and wife team Randy Weiner and Diane Paulus (The Donkey Show) and inspired by the real-life story of Paulus' mother and father.
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Swimming with Watermelons may be Off-Broadway's first karaoke musical. It may also be its last. But karaoke is a very peculiar and specific aspect of what turns out to be an inspired little entertainment. And what a pleasant surprise that is, given that it was created by the same people who brought us The Donkey Show, one of the most unlikely hits in recent years.
Our first reaction as ...Watermelons begins is shock at the overt political incorrectness of introducing an unmistakably Caucasian actress in the role of a young Japanese woman, complete with a caricatured accent. But, as Al Jolson would say, "You ain't seen nothin' yet!" Moments later, three women dressed as male aviators metap[...]