Return to the Forbidden Planet silvered space suit costumes and space ship sets concealing keyboards and drums. The robot, Ariel, is performed by an actor on roller skates, with a costume reminiscent of the original movie's Robby the Robot. The show's dialogue is largely adapted from well-known passages from Shakespeare. There is a part for narrator on pre-recorded video which was played in the original production by Magnus Pyke and in the London production by the astronomer and TV personality Sir Patrick Moore. A West End cast album was released in 1990 by Virgin Records. Act One Act Two Return to the Forbidden Planet Return
Sorrows of the Forbidden City woman he loves, Cixi (Tang Ruojing) browbeats him into choosing someone else. The woman he loves is relegated to being a concubine, Imperial Concubine Zhen (Zhou Yun). 1900 This is the year when the Boxers, in the name of defending the Qing dynasty, murdered large numbers of foreigners and Chinese Christians and besieged the Foreign Legation Quarter in Beijing. "Sorrows of the Forbidden City" was released on DVD by Guangzhou Beauty Culture Communication Co., Ltd., in 2006. Sorrows of the Forbidden City Sorrows of the Forbidden City () is a Chinese film released in 1948 and directed by Zhu Shilin.