A Promising Role
World class music, a futuristic stage design, an untraditional performance. These were audiences’ first impression of Three Little Pigs, a musical for children imported from New York’s Broadway and revamped by Mahua FunAge, a comedy theater company based in Beijing.
The version overturns the traditional image of the pigs and the wolf, endowing them with distinctive characteristics: The eldest pig is strong but naïve, the middle one pretty and kind, and the youngest smart and gentle, while the big bad wolf is tall and handsome and looks more like a leather-wearing Elvis Presley. Interactions between performers and
