Chinese Come to NY To Learn Broadway Secrets

A team from the Chinese Ministry of Culture comes to Broadway to try to learn its secrets. “We want to know how your Broadway musicals could attract such large audiences. And why our comprehensive art forms — with singing, dancing and drama — could not attract such a large audience.” They “hope to find a way to stem a troubling loss of audience from hundreds of traditional, state-supported Chinese opera houses. Attendance at these houses has dwindle as more modern, youthful entertainments have multiplied.”