Book & Lyrics Lilah Kan Music by Louis Stewart Directed by Tisa Chang SHANGHAI LIL’S will include performances on November 10-27, 2011 at West End Theatre 263 West 86th Street. Opening Night followed by presentation of the 6th Red Socks Award in memory of Lilah Kan Pan Asian’s heartwarming musical that evokes the spirit of the 1940’s.  Set in San Francisco’s nightclub circuit, a restaurant is transformed into a cabaret featuring songs, jokes, romance and dances despite the looming spectre of WWII and internment. “SHANGHAI LIL’S is Pan Asian Rep’s tribute to that quintessential American theatrical form -the musical- and to Asian American pioneers on the cabaret circuit.  Musicals embody the American Dream where everything good can happen: boy and girl meet, fall in ...

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