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The elder sister Blanche goes and seeks refugee with her younger sister Stella. Besides the competition for a man, comparison of their own happiness, mutual blessing, is there any other sophisticated emotion between these two sisters? The story starts from traveling in a daze caused by love, and there is more to tell...... The inspiration of this musical drama was flourished from A Streetcar Named Desire(1964), the classic work of Tennessee Williams, one of the greatest American playwrights. Through elaborate creation of Liu Liang-Yen, a well-known Taiwan poet and director, and Ko Blaire, a well-known Taiwan musician, the show was recreated into a distinct musical drama, which was full of jazz music. With over 10 songs, the drama was thoroughly practiced the theory of "Reading music", that is, the way of singing a song is as same as the way of reading the lyrics. Moreover, the length of music accounted for 80% in the whole drama with a large number of orchestral music. Under the excellent performances of young actresses Ma Qingli and Han Shuang, both of whom come from SDAC, this splendid musical drama has displayed to the audiences in Taipei and Shanghai.

The outstanding dramatic performances of Ma Qingli and Han Shuang and their touching singing of more than ten original songs captured hearts of those who watched the drama. With the jazz music as the background, these two sisters have accurately and properly performed the songs, dances and traditional Chinese Operas, which made A Bebop Musical-Blanche emerge with unique charm.

Blanche tells a story happened during the elder-sister Blanche's visit to her younger sister Stella. Different from the classic original work, there is no male role in this drama. Since the key and the only roles are both female, subtle emotional changes between women, such like envy, jealousy and hatred, are dominant, displaying their helplessness and cruelty during the pursuit of fraternity and romantic love. The drama is going to make an unprecedented breakthrough and profound reflection on the question of "Scenes of Happiness".

The director Liang-Yen Liu has already produced six female mono-dramas titled by "Nymphomaniac Theatre Series" since 2005, and the final chapter presented this year, Blanche, which absorbed the author's long-time exploration to traditional Chinese operas and profound acquisition of the spiritual and psychological conditions of dramatic characters.