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David Henry Hwang

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Book Writer b. 1957

David Henry Hwang (born August 11, 1957) is an American playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and theater professor at Columbia University in New York City. He has won three Obie Awards for his plays FOB, Golden Child, and Yellow Face. He has one Tony Award (M. Butterfly) and three other nominations (Golden Child, Flower Drum Song, and Yellow Face). Three of his works (M. Butterfly, Yellow Face, and Soft Power) have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Also credited on3 works

Aida
Flower Drum Song (2002 Revival)
Tarzan

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In the literature8 passages

  • The revised Broadway revival opened at the Virginia Theatre on October 17, 2002, for 169 performances. David Henry Hwang’s adaptation wisely dropped the Helen Chao character (and that ballet), and assigned “Love, Look Away” to Mei-Li. Besides the ballet, the revival also dropped “The Other Generation” but added “My Best Love,” which had b…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Book: Linda Wolverton, Robert Falls, & David Henry Hwang, “suggested by the opera”ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • 59. Qtd. in Dan Bacalzo, “A Different Drum: David Henry Hwang’s Musical ‘Revisal’ of Flower Drum Song ,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre 15, no. 2 (Spring 2003): 73.ebooks/Hoffman, Warren/Great White Way_ Race and the Broadway Musical, The - Warren Hoffman.txt
  • Bacalzo, Dan. “A Different Drum: David Henry Hwang’s Musical ‘Revisal’ of Flower Drum Song. ” Journal of American Drama and Theatre 15, no. 2 (Spring 2003): 71–83.ebooks/Hoffman, Warren/Great White Way_ Race and the Broadway Musical, The - Warren Hoffman.txt
  • David Henry Hwang wrote an entirely new libretto for Joseph Fields, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s Flower Drum Song . While groundbreaking in 1958 for humanising a marginalised group in American society, the work nevertheless became perceived as sentimental, a ‘minor’ Rodgers and Hammerstein work. The reviews that greeted the 200…ebooks/Music, The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To/Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge Companions to Music), The - The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To Music.txt
  • THE DANCE AND THE RAILROAD By David Henry Hwang; Direction and Choreography, John Lone; Set, Karen Schulz; Lifting, Victor En Yu Tan; Costumes, Judy Dearing; Props, Randy Tyler; Wardrobe, Russell Duke; Stage Manager, Alice Jankowiak; Music, John Lone; Production Supervisor, Jason Steven Cohentheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1981-82 Season, v. 38 (Willis).txt

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