CHU CHEM (UNRELEASED BROADWAY CAST)

CHU CHEM (UNRELEASED BROADWAY CAST)
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CHU CHEM

Music by Mitch Leigh

Lyrics by Jim Haines and Jack Wohl

Book by Ted Allen

Opened March 17, 1989, Ritz Theatere

Cast:

The Oriental Company:

The Prince - Kevin Gray? [Thom Sesma performed the role at the opening]

The Elder - Alvin Lum

Hong Ho, the Governor - Chev Rodgers

Daf-ah-Dil, Concubine, Villager - Zoie Lam

The Prompter - Tim Fujii

The Westerners:

Chu Chem - Mark Zeller

Lotte - Emily Zacharias

Yakob - Irving Burton

Orchestra (conducted by Don Jones):

Keyboard 1

Keyboard 2

Wind Synthesizer

Electric Bass

Guitar Synthesizer

Act I

 1. Overture

 2. Orient Yourself [The Oriental Company]

 3. What Happened, What? [Chu Chem, Yakob]

 4. You'll Have To Change [Lotte]

 5. Love Is [The Prince]

 6. I'll Talk To Her [Chu Chem, The Prince, The Prince's Brother]

 7. Shame On You [Chu Chem, The Prince, The Concubines]

 8. It Must Be Good For Me [Lotte]

 9. I'll Talk to Her (Reprise) [Chu Chem, The Prince]

 10. You'll Have To Change (Reprise) [The Prince]

 11. We Dwell In Our Hearts/ Goodbye Love, Goodbye [Chu Chem/ Lotte, The Prince]

Act II

 12. Re-Orient Yourself [The Oriental Company]

 13. What Happened, What? (reprise) [Yakob]

 14. I Once Believed [Lotte]

 15. It's Possible [Chu Chem]

 16. Our Kind Of War [The Company]

 17. Boom! [Hong Ho]

 18. Finale [The Company]

Mitch Leigh recorded an original cast album in the hopes of finding a record company to press and distribute it.  Tapes of this recording were distributed to the members of the Tony Nominating committee to enhance the show's chances of being nominated.  The show was still passed over.

CHU CHEN was originally written and produced in 1966. It closed during pre-Broadway tryouts in Philadelphia.

The plot of the 1966 version, as described in William Torbert Leonard's "Broadway Bound: A Guide to Shows That Died Aborning":

Chu Chem, a wandering Jewish scholar, accompanied by his wife and daughter, is searching for a lost tribe of Jews in 11th century China. Prince Eagle, ruler of the Ming province of Kaifeng Fu, falls in love with Chem's daughter, Lotte, calling her "the woman of the future."  Mongol villain, Lord Hoo Hah, has dire predictions about the future of the province long cursed by a devastating draught.  Chu Chem puts on his prayer shawl to pray and there is suddenly rain from heaven.