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Global Future Leaders Organization,
World Harmony Foundation
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American Music Center,
Bring First Chinese Children Musical to Broadway
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The Lunar New Year is the most important holiday for Chinese and
many other Asian-Americans. Not only is it a celebration of
Spring, but it is also an important opportunity for Asians to
share their culture with their adopted communities, promoting
Sino-U.S. cultural exchange. New York City’s Chinese female
legislator Grace Meng has initiated a call for the Senate to
pass a bill that would make the Lunar New Year a statutory
holiday. The bill has already earned significant support,
especially from the governors of California, New York, New
Jersey. The Lunar New Year has already become a statutory
holiday in these three states. It is important to continue to
generate interest in this movement to have the Lunar New Year
become a statutory holiday. The bill still needs to pass through
the House of Representatives.
On February 25, 2018 at 3 pm, still in Lunar New Year holiday
for Asian, in order to celebrate and promote this important
piece of legislation, 100 years old former congressman &
Chairman of Asia Affairs for the congress Hon. Lester Wolff,
together with the kids from 6-13 years old & performers from
China What Children’s Dream Academy of Shenzhen with USA
students from Global Future Leader Organization, America
National Music Center. Together holding a musical production
of “The Monkey King.” It is directed by What children's drama’s
dream director Kewei Zhan. Original music has been composed and
by American Professor Jingbo You. The World Harmony Foundation
Chairman Frank Liu as the producing team, which has been held at
the SHEEN CENTER LORETO THEATER in downtown broadway of NY. The
musical drama had started by training students from Shenzhen &
New York So that Actors include Chinese and American students
performing together.
The content of “Monkey King fighting Ox Monster” is based on one
of the four famous Chinese masterpieces, "Journey to the West".
The music combines Chinese and Western cultural elements such as
Chinese Peking Opera and American Hip-Hop. In the combination of
Beijing Opera and rock music, in the confrontation between
"eating the monk" and "saving the monk", the Monkey king and the
Ox monster and many other characters in their interactions
combine traditional Chinese culture with American popular
culture and show the charm of Chinese children's play.
The musical drama has won the support of Shenzhen Bao'an
District government with Cultural Development Special Fund in
China. A recording has been made of the performance for the
Shenzhen Children's Spring Festival. Coming to New York Broadway
show is the first time performing in oversea.. The main creative
producers of this musical drama has worked hard to make
traditional Chinese culture vivid for overseas young people.
Their hope is that the combination of the familiar and the
foreign will work together to create an unforgettable
performance.
In the cast, in addition to the three leading teachers, the
other small performers are primary and junior high school
students. The Tang monk's actor Shengyu Chen is only 13 years
old. Sandy's actor Xinge Liu (Harmony Liu, American) was only 12
years old. The three little monsters Mofei Zhao, Bolly You,
Xinyuan Liu (Eirene Liu, American) are only 6 years old. More
worth mentioning is the Monkey King's Heart Shadow - Monkey
actor Christian Downs is a native American student. He not only
likes Chinese culture, but also trains Kong Fu. He becomes the
biggest bright spot of the show in New York version performance.
Allowing children to play their own plays and let the children
perform their own protagonists breaks the traditional situation
that Chinese children's plays have always been "adults to
children”. This performance gives full play to children’s own
imagination and creativity. Under the guidance of the director,
the children make their own style, change their lines
themselves, and rehearse their own body movements. This fully
demonstrates the substantial meaning of children's musical
"Children's Creation" which create a new innovation of behavior
education !
When the musical drama closing, Together with performing troupe
and kids, the 100 years old congressman Lester Wolff go up stage
make a remark about the Iniciation of USA & UN Asian Week since
there are African week, Jewish week, Spanish week and Italian
Week in USA and UN, but none of the Asian week, Since Lester is
the one create the Italian week, He can continue get support
for this iniciaitive with many congressman and senators who is
his friends. In this Lunar Year’s holiday to have this action
is very significant ! They
Since the 18th CPC National Congress, General Secretary Xi
Jinping put forward the important task of "making a good story
of China." In the 19th NPC report, President Xi emphasized once
again that we should make a good story of China, demonstrate a
true, three-dimensional and comprehensive China and raise the
national cultural soft power. The performance of the New York
Premiere of "The Monkey King fighting OX monster" is an
important performance of Chinese children's play going abroad
and going global. It is also a concrete practice of Chinese art
practitioners to respond to the national call. With the mission
of "spreading Chinese traditional culture", teachers and
students of Shenzhen Watt Children's Theater Academy and all the
actors in the center of the world will show the essence of
Chinese traditional culture to overseas teenagers in New York.
This event is sponsored by the Global Future Leaders
Organization. It is organized by the Shenzhen What Children's
Theater Academy, the National Music Center, and the World
Harmony Foundation. It is Co-sponsored by Children's Acting
Academy, the New York Besay dancing School, and the New York
Shaolin Temple Martial Arts Center. At the End, Global Future
Leader organization planning to have two action in the future :
1) Continue to bring in Children Musical Drama to all USA states
and all other countries and invite all congressman and senators
to support this Asian Week Initiative to become a Legal Holiday
in both USA and United Nations.
Reported by Frank Liu (Anchor of East America for AMTV)
2/25/2018
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