'Dragon Lady" for Broadway
By LARRY TAJIRI
We HAD just finished writing off the current season as far as Oriental performers are concerned on the Broadway stage as well as TV, when Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz, veteran creators of musical comedies, announced that they were preparing a new musical with an Oriental setting.
This is a case of Nhus making news. Dietz and Schwartz, the team which is doing the music and songs for the Mary Martin musical, "Jennie," have been reading about the adventures of Viet Nam's Mme. Ngo Nhu, sister-in-law of late President Ngo Dinh Diem and who has been nicknamed "The Dragon Lady" in the public press.
Here is a case of life, imitating art.
There is a distinct flavor of "Terry and the Pirates" about the beautiful and articulate "Dragon Lady." Anyway, Dietz and Schwartz are concocting a fictional East Asian kingdom which will be the setting of their show.
Since there are few East Asians available on Broadway for a show such as "The Dragon Lady," the casting probably will be concentrated among the Nisei. There are more than three dozen Nisei who have played in ont of the several companies of such shows as "Flower Drum Song," "The World of Suzie Wong" and similar productions with an Oriental background. Broadway will have no trouble casting a show with Oriental performers.
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CHINATOWN NEWS, MAY 18, 1964