Cameron Mackintosh Drills a Hole to China

I guess the man has run out of cities who haven't seen Cats. Et al.

Mackintosh will stage a Chinese version of “Les Miz” at the National Grand Theater near Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in November 2008.

Wow. I guess the fomenting revolution imagery (awkward!) is canceled out by the red flag. Indeed...

The show was deemed acceptable because the Victor Hugo novel is popular in China and its message about revolution politically correct.

So that settles that.

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