A young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown, from Hong Kong, with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner, unaware he is involved with one of his singers.
The last time a talented Asian cast got this kind of opportunity on this big a scale was in Disney’s The Joy Luck Club 25 years ago, and before that, probably in Universal’s 1961 adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Flower Drum Song.