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2019 DISCOVER:

New Musicals 

2019 DISCOVER: New Musicals

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Baayork Lee, Artistic Director of National Asian Artists Project (NAAP), is pleased to announce the 6th Annual DISCOVER: New Musicals, a presentation of staged-readings of new short or one-act musicals performed by casts of professional Asian-American actors in New York City. This program complements NAAP’s REDISCOVER series, in which casts perform classic or established works of the American musical theater.

 

This year’s DISCOVER: New Musicals will take place on

 

May 6, 2019 at 7:30pm

Theatre 315

315 West 47th Street

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This Year's Selected Musicals:

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BETHUNE - by Yan Li
Director Robert Lee


Canadian surgeon Norman Bethune finds his passion and purpose renewed when he travels to 1930s China and aids the Communists in their struggle for liberation. Aided by his staff and local militiamen, he learns the price of belonging to two worlds and captures a glimpse of Mao's vision for the future.

 

YOU, ME, I, WE - by Jessica Wu

Director Cassey Kivnick

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"You, Me, I, We" is an exploration of the crazy and chaotic way our minds work - the voices that direct our everyday actions, the ones that knock us down with harsh thoughts and lift us back up with a song. Take a journey inside the beautifully turbulent mind of Yu-Mei Wei.

 

ZOOKEEPER - Music by Emily Chiu, Book/Lyrics by Ellen Mairin Johnston

Director Nina Zoie Lam

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Two very different young women, on a hitchhiking trip across America, get detoured on the bayou when they're picked up by a local named Zookeeper.

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National Asian Artists Project (NAAP) is a community of artists, educators, administrators, community leaders, and professionals. It is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that recognizes the need to build bridges between the work of artists of Asian descent, and the many communities that the work can serve, from underserved primary school students to seasoned arts patrons.

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