Broadway-crafted Chinese musical wows audience

Produced by a top Broadway team, The Secret can be categorized as a jukebox musical.[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Though a global collaboration can surely bring a mixture of creative freshness to the otherwise singular culture-based production, there are problems to crack.

"We hope that we can create something that can cater to the Chinese market, while at the same time is an international and high-quality product", Zhong said.

Classic Broadway musicals have a variety of versions globally and China has introduced many of them. Zhong's ambition is to produce a good number of first-class musicals that can appeal to a global audience.

"Now we have several countries, including Japan, South Korea and Singapore, that are willing to cooperate with us in terms of copyright, now I feel all the hard work is worthy", Zhong once said in an interview. She also views musicals as heritage. "The musical is a living form of cultural inheritance. Good musicals can be performed for decades, and even hundreds of years."