“I didn’t know anything about traditional Chinese dance, and so for me this was really very, very different and very pleasing in different ways.”

“I thought the music was beautiful. I liked the blend of the traditional Chinese instruments and the regular American instruments, and I found the humor very interesting in all of it.”

“The part that was really interesting to me was some of the [repression] in China, and I do think that’s important to Americans to understand that difference between China and here, and to bring that to us in a way that’s palatable in terms of entertainment is probably a very good thing.”

“I certainly didn’t realize that something as simple as that one performance where the men were roughing up a person, that could never be played in China, and I think that’s something that we should know and so I appreciated that part.”

“I thought [the erhu soloist] was brilliant. It must be very difficult with such a different instrument to play as complex music as that was.”

“It’s a wonderful understanding of Chinese culture—it was something that was very new to me and that’s something good to experience.”