Question
David Henry Hwang’s play Yellow Face was inspired by backlash to the casting for Miss Saigon, a musical based on this opera. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this Giacomo Puccini opera that inspired another Hwang play in which a French servant dresses in a kimono and stabs himself.
ANSWER: Madame Butterfly [or Madama Butterfly; prompt on M. Butterfly]
[10m] Asian actors in whiteface appear in Hwang’s play Soft Power, which twists this Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. This musical features the duet “Shall We Dance” between Anna and Mongkut.
ANSWER: The King and I
[10h] Hwang wrote the libretto for a 2014 opera about the suicide of one of these people named Danny Chen. Eight high Cs appear in the aria “Ah! mes amis” (“MEZ ah-ME”) in which Tonio announces he has become one of these people in a Donizetti opera.
ANSWER: soldiers [accept military personnel; accept An American Soldier; prompt on guards] (The Donizetti opera is La fille du régiment.)
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Summary
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
Data
| Dunbar | Winston Churchill B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Mira Loma | Heights | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Carl Sandburg | Maggie Walker C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Thomas Jefferson D | Mercer County | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |