{"id":53824,"date":"2015-07-31T08:30:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T12:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=53824"},"modified":"2015-06-26T18:36:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T22:36:29","slug":"comfort-women-a-new-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=53824","title":{"rendered":"Comfort Women: A New Musical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, July 31 8PM<br \/>\nTheatre at St. Clement&#8217;s<br \/>\n423 W 46th St (Between 9th and 10th Ave), New York, NY 10036<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/hqdefault.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[53824]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53825\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During World War II, approximately 200,000 women \u2013 and young teenagers \u2013 from across Asia were forced into sexual slavery at \u201ccomfort stations\u201d for the Imperial Japanese Army. Inspired by testimonies from the women survivors, COMFORT WOMEN: A New Musical features a cast of fifty-three Asian\/Asian American actors to tell these stories which are excluded from history books.<\/p>\n<p>Each audience member will receive a copy of CAN YOU HEAR US: The Untold Narratives of Comfort Women. A portion of proceeds will go to &#8220;House of Sharing,&#8221; the home for surviving Comfort Women living in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Comfort Women: A New Musical is Directed by Dimo Hyun Jun Kim. Music by Bryan Michaels &amp; TaeHo Park, and Lyrics by Bryan Michaels. Written by Dimo Hyun Jun Kim, OskerDavid Aguirre, Joann Malory Mieses, and Produced by Matthew Thomas Burda &amp; Dimo Hyun Jun Kim.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets and information visit:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comfortwomenmusical.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/www.comfortwomenmusical.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, July 31 8PM Theatre at St. Clement&#8217;s 423 W 46th St (Between 9th and 10th Ave), New York, NY 10036<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53824"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53828,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53824\/revisions\/53828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}