The Secret Power of Fu Manchu

The Secret Power of Fu-Manchu was Michael McQuary's first portrayal of the Devil Doctor. It was a musical presented at the Cooper Square Theatre in 1990. It was set in Manchu's House of  The Orient, and iIt featured original songs and a big floor show number. Fu-Manchu had a tarantella, tango solo with the Jay Arthur Rank Gong Boy. It was described as "a little on the camp side--but very intense."

Drawing by Michael McQuary

It matters not how well explored a great sprawling Metropolis is~every turn of the corner may bring a new surprise, a new danger. Now...You've stumbled upon the threshold, east of Shanghia....left of time lost where treachery, terror, romance and unspeakable feasts of disguise, magic, are witnessed, not to be believed, by the police.

We hear deafening laughter, of an ancient tale of a yellow dragon who will eat you, like a cat swallows a mouse. With songs, tricks, transformations, draining the youth and beauty, of innocent young couples, to sustain this demon's lust for power, and knowledge, of the world's most guarded secrets....... It's Fu~Manchu. Are Nick and Nora Charles to break the secret  puzzle box of Manchu's magic? They discover that only true love will break his spell and trick him when he attempts to drug them.

To use their power to cause the ancient Foo Dogs of protection to confront him and his evil reign ...and fall on him. Our heroes escape to other adventures, and ever lasting love. An old peddler comes from the far distant smoke....welcoming us in, to his house of ancient wonders!

Locks, chains, giant shutters, Shut us in! It is Fu~Manchu, laughing at us.....Never to let us go! All of us! ~The End .

Michael McQuary as Dr. Fu~Manchu

Fu Manchu and the Warrior Stone

Fu-Manchu is a Master of  Disguise as he hopes to triumph by stealing  the Warrior Stone from the London Museum. It is invaluable as it is said that it will give whoever possesses  it ultimate power! Fu-Manchu must have it.  The Warrior Stone is reported stolen and in its place, an ancient jade coin, from the Manchu dynasty.

Michael McQuary as  Dr. Fu~Manchu

Sometimes called the "New Man of a Thousand Faces,
Michael McQuary once again stars as Dr. Fu-Manchu.

Eric Espiritu, Robert Andreala, and Michael McQuary

  

In crystal ball, the servant Kudar- Abdul Ghani

Dr. Nayland Smith - James Sexton Dacoit -Eric Espiritu Girl in Peril - Jennifer Shea