[8][9] Following a workshop in New York City and revisions, a shortened version, with only one act, began performances at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, on August 7, 2024.
DHH's efforts to adapt the film, the title of which roughly translates to "Stick With Your Mistake", are complicated by what he sees as different values between American and Chinese culture: he takes umbrage with the ending where the hero returns to an unhappy marriage instead of following his heart, and feels that with the upcoming 2016 election and belief that Hillary Clinton will become President, he needs to write a musical where dreams are fulfilled and freedom flourishes.
On the surgery table, he has a hallucinatory vision of a musical retelling of Xue Xing's trip to America, where he meets and falls in love with Hillary Clinton, as written by a Chinese author 50 years in the future.
Sam Hurwitt of The Mercury News called it "marvelously clever", also saying that Alyse Alan Louis as Hillary Clinton "tears the roof off the place",[6] and Frank Rizzo of Variety said it was "subversive as well as funny, touching and thoroughly entertaining".
[14] In more mixed reviews, Jackson McHenry of Vulture said that it tended to be fascinating and messy, with the musical within the play being "occasionally too clever by half",[15] and Jesse Green of The New York Times said that it was "something of a miracle but also something of a muddle", and "it's the kind of show that deserves, and unfortunately needs, to be seen at least twice.