2014英语四级听力练习慢速3.21(3)_大学英语听力

2014英语四级听力练习慢速3.21(3)

　　Welcome to American Mosaic from Learning English.

　　Im June Simms.

　　On the show today, we play music from The Boss, Bruce Springsteen.

　　But first, we go to New York to check out a new off-Broadway play.

　　Bruce Lee Dansical

　　Kung Fu is the name of a new play about Americas most famous martial artist, the late actor Bruce Lee. Playwright David Henry Hwang centered his work on Lees young adulthood. Marsha James tells us more about the play at the Signature Theater.

　　Bruce Lee became an actor as a young child. He also studied dance and the Chinese fighting style Kung Fu while growing up in Hong Kong. He was an expert in both by his teen years. At that time, he returned to the United States, the country of his birth.

　　Lee worked as a dance and Kung Fu teacher in Seattle, Washington during college. Playwright David Henry Hwang represents that period of Bruce Lees life in his play, Kung Fu. Mr. Hwang says he first tried to write the play as a musical. But, he says dance pieces worked better than songs in the story.

　　Its got 17 dance numbers, a lot of fighting. This is something that really I dont think has been done before, at least in America, which is to create what Im calling a dansical, a show which is a combination of drama and dance.

　　Mr. Hwang is best known for his plays M. Butterfly and Golden Child. Like those works, Kung Fu is concerned with questions of Asian American identity and prejudice. As a young actor in Hollywood, Bruce Lee found himself offered only small, racially predictable parts. Hwang represents these experiences in a scene where Lee talks to a television producer. The producer wants him to play Kato in the superhero series The Green Hornet.