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M. Butterfly

Woodstock Playhouse Productions Presents

A Play by David Henry Hwang 

M. Butterfly Tickets

November 18, 19 & 20 of 2022

Friday & Saturday at 7:30pm

Sunday at 2:00pm

 

A Play by David Henry Hwang
Music by Lucia Hwong

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This production is Adult-themed and contains graphic language and nudity.

Masks are not required of audience members.

 

Based on a true story that stunned the world, and inspired by Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madama Butterfly, M. Butterfly was an immediate sensation when it premiered on Broadway in 1988. The play opens in the cramped prison cell where diplomat Rene Gallimard is being held captive by the French government—and by his own illusions. He recalls a time when Song Liling, the beautiful Chinese diva, touched him with a love as vivid, as seductive—and as elusive—as a butterfly.

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The diplomat relives the twenty-year affair from the temptation to the seduction, from its consummation to the scandal that ultimately consumed them both.


M. Butterfly is one of the most compelling, explosive, and slyly humorous dramas ever to light the Broadway stage, a work of unrivaled brilliance, illuminating the conflict between men and women, the differences between East and West, racial stereotypes—and the shadows we cast around our most cherished illusions.
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The story is based most directly on the relationship between French diplomat Bernard Boursicot and Shi Pei Pu, a Peking opera singer. The play premiered on Broadway in 1988 at the Eugene O'Neill Theater. It ran for 777 performances and won the 1988 Tony Award for Best Play. In addition to this, it was a Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist in 1989.

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This performance is brought to the stage of the iconic Woodstock Playhouse featuring the Woodstock Playhouse Theatre Production Cast. The playhouse offers a Summer Theatre Festival from June through August as a regional company of rising-professional performers widely acclaimed for some of the finest performances in our NY & Tri-State region. The Woodstock Playhouse - originally established in 1938 by Robert Elwyn, a Broadway/Film director/producer/actor and fifth-generation member of one of Woodstock's oldest families - will be celebrating its 85th season of theatre and music history and contemporary offerings this coming year.

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Director: Randy Conti

Choreographer: Nina Zoie Lam

Lighting Designer: Anthony Michael Clayton

Sound Designer: Steve Maffia

Costume Designer: Diane Stein

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View Cast and Directors Bios Here

 

Length of Performance: 2 hours 45 minutes with intermission 

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TICKET PRICING:

 

•$50 for Golden Tier Seating, Rows A - F

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•$45 for Blue Tier Seating, Rows G - N

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•$35 for Green Tier Seating, Rows P - Q

 

Each ticket will also include a $5 handling & convenience charge

 

All seating is Reserved Seating, and all sales are final; no refunds nor exchanges.

 

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 This performance is completed; please join us for another event. 

M. BUTTERFLY is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC,
servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (www.dramatists.com)
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