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''M. Butterfly'' is a play by David Henry Hwang loosely based on the relationship between French diplomat Bernard Boursicot and Shi Pei Pu, a male Peking opera singer. The play premiered on Broadway in 1988 and won the 1988 Tony Award for Best Play. ==Productions== ''M. Butterfly'' premiered at the National Theatre, Washington, D.C., on February 10, 1988.〔Hwang, David Henry. "Foreward", '' 'M. Butterfly': With an Afterword by the Playwright'', Penguin, 1993, ISBN 1101077034〕 The play opened on Broadway at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on March 20, 1988, closing after 777 performances on January 27, 1990. It was produced by Stuart Ostrow and directed by John Dexter and starred John Lithgow as Gallimard and BD Wong as Song Liling. David Dukes, Anthony Hopkins, Tony Randall, and John Rubinstein played Gallimard at various times during the original run. A highly unusual staging featuring Puccini's music and the Kazakh countertenor Erik Kurmangaliev in the title role was undertaken by Roman Viktyuk in Russia in 1990.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Erik Kurmangaliev (Counter-tenor) - Short Biography )〕 The play was a 1989 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.〔("Finalists 1989" ) pulitzer.org, accessed October 11, 2015〕 It is currently published by Plume and in an acting edition by Dramatists Play Service.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dramatists Play Service, Inc. )〕 An audio recording of the play was produced by L. A. Theatre Works, with Lithgow and Wong reprising their Broadway roles along with Margaret Cho.〔() latw.org〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「M. Butterfly」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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