31 Asian American Plays in 31 Days
#20 MAKING TRACKS, book by Welly Yang and Brian Yorkey, Music by Woody Pak
A compelling look at what it means to be American, Making Tracks tells the tale of a young Asian American rock musician who journeys through six generations of his family’s history to understand his family’s long labor to find a voice in America.
2g Productions/Tapei Theater 1999
directed by Lenny Leibowitz Cindy Cheung, Mel Duane Gionson, Timothy Huang, Thomas Kouo, Mimosa, Michael Minn, Kiki Moritsugu, Aiko Nakasone, Rodney To, Virginia Wing and Welly Yang.
Substantially revised version at Village Theater, 2002, included Thomas C. Kouo, Chil Kong, Dee Dee Lynn Magno, Herman Sebek, Michael K. Lee, Hazel Anne Raymundo, Leilani Berinobis and (I think) Joseph Steven Yang…(additional citations welcome!).
(photo from the 1999 production)
(the show includes a scene set in a night club that was a part of the Chop Suey Circuit…that’s an underappreciated part of Asian American theatre history and an underappreciated theme in the works..lineage to FLOWER DRUM SONG and many other plays)
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