‘Trump on Show’, the Cantonese Opera that débuted in 2019 has been updated, since Donald Trump’s re-election and the show’s creator is looking to make it go global.
I could see a market for this in the thousands of Chinatowns all over the world. It might be a fun diplomatic-public relations turn to promote this show. The show’s creator, Edward Li Kui-ming says he would like to perform the show at the White House.
One of my step-brothers was a producer on the successful Broadway show, ‘Chinglish’, so he already has a lot of connections that could make this happen, especially because the show also ran in Hong Kong but as a hardcore longtime member of the CCP-loving AFL-CIO-affiliated SAG-AFTRA and Equity, I doubt he would be interested in making this happen!
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by Ambrose Li | South China Morning Post | Feb 1, 2025
When Cantonese opera impresario and composer Edward Li Kui-ming wrote Trump on Show five years ago featuring the recently re-elected American president during his first term in office, he did not expect the ancient art form to be a hit among young Hong Kong audiences.
It was for this very reason his composition has been chosen as one of the closing performances of the Sunbeam Theatre in North Point, as the institution synonymous with Cantonese opera in the city prepares to lower its curtains for the last time in March after 53 years.
“Trump on Show was the only Cantonese opera that drew many young viewers to our theatre. For many of them, it’d be their first taste of what we do. I was surprised, it’s not something I had expected,” Li said.
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