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- <text id=90TT1947>
- <title>
- July 23, 1990: East Cast
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- July 23, 1990 The Palestinians
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 65
- East Cast
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole
- </p>
- <p> London's smash hit Miss Saigon will open on Broadway next
- April, but the musical is already striking discordant notes
- along the Great White Way. Asian-American actors object to
- Caucasian Jonathan Pryce's taking on the starring role of a
- Eurasian character. They are urging the producers to
- reconsider, even though Pryce has won raves in the West End.
- In a satiric number praising the American dream, Pryce sings,
- "Luck by the tail/ How can you fail?" It's an ironic question
- for Asian-American actors, who see the casting as a throwback
- to the "yellow-face" days of Charlie Chan.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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