CULTURE

‘Ghost’- Universal love pulls on the heartstrings of Chinese

2017-02-14 18:14 GMT+8 6km to Beijing
Editor Zhang Ruijun
By CGTN’s Jennifer Hsiung & Luo Chen
Today is Valentine's Day. There is no better way to celebrate the day of love than to revisit one of modern day's most iconic love stories. The 1990 movie "Ghost", starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg, is one of the highest grossing films of all time and won two Academy Awards.
It also became a huge sensation in China, at a time when Western movies were just being introduced to the country during the 1990s. Well, two decades after the movie was made, the timeless love story was adapted for the stage. "Ghost The Musical" is back in Beijing for its second run. ‍
A still of musical "Ghost." /CFP Photo
It's a story about the universal power of love. 
Sam Wheat and Molly Jensen are about to start a new life together. But it is cut short when Sam is killed in a mugging one night - leaving him trapped as a ghost between this world and the next. He finds out that Molly is in serious danger - and enlists the help of a psychic medium so that he can protect her. 
The musical "Ghost" holds a meet-and-greet with leading actors Liam Doyle and Emily Tierney in Shenyang on September 4, 2016. /CFP Photo
Directed by Tony Award-winner Mathew Warchus, the production first opened in Manchester and then London in 2011. A year later, it hit Broadway and soon started touring internationally. 
Whether you prefer the screen or the stage, there's no denying that "Ghost The Musical" has added another dimension to the same old love story that will continue to transcend for a very "long, but hopefully not too lonely time." 
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