The muscial was so touching yesterday! $20 worth it, although the view from the top was damn High! Does anyone noes where to buy the CD? If anyone wants to noe the story, ..here's part of it..
Kate Carl was invited to the Forbidden City to paint a portait of Empress Dowager Cixi. On the train trip, she met a journalist, named George, and she heard lots and lots of bad rumours on how the Empress was like. A evil dragon lady who murder her own son?
The truth side of the Empress Cixi finally reveals, when Kate enters the Forbidden City. She wanted to know how Empress Cixi was like, being an lady of 50s to 60s that time. There, Kate started painting the Empress's eyes while listening to how the Empress was like when she's young.
(Kit Chan) Young Cixi known as Yehonala that time in her 16, first arrived at the palace as one of the thousand ladies who is to get chosen by the Qing Emperor Xianfeng, to be his concubine. She was chosen as the emperor's concubine.
As soon as Cixi was pregnant with the emperor's child, the emperor had stopped to visit her. She was brought to the summer palace, where she gave birth to the emperor's only son, Tong Zhi and rose to power overnight.
As War came to China, the emperor's health became weaker, and on the night before the emperor die, Tong Zhi became the emperor at the age of 5. Unfortunately, Tong Zhi die at the age of 18 with the disease. Overgrieved, Cixi sat sadly at Tong Zhi's side, cleaning him with her handkerchief. Soon, Guang Xu, Cixi's nephew took over the throne at the age of three. With the help of Cixi, Guang Xu learned to rule China day by day. When Guang Xu came up with an idea to introduce western ideas to China, Cixi agreed to it, but there were many bloodshed on the streets in the end.
The portrait was finally finished, and George, the journalist had actually made use of Kate to write bad things about the Empress Dowager Cixi. The empress had no longer trust Kate any more after the pubilshed of the book by George. As the portrait of the empress was being shown to the people, Kate had no way of pursuing the people that the Empress Dowager Cixi was a nice person...
I may have missed out some parts, but the show was really nice. No regards on spending so much money. If anybody got the CD out there, please lend it to me! Thanks!
Yi Tian
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