{"id":54161,"date":"2015-07-05T08:46:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T12:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=54161"},"modified":"2015-07-05T16:53:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T20:53:32","slug":"sayonara-the-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=54161","title":{"rendered":"Sayonara: The Musical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, July 05 2:30PM<br \/>\nTheater Row &#8211; The Clurman<br \/>\nNew York, New York 10036<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11391445_428561743982349_4673054107027495582_n.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[54161]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54162\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11391445_428561743982349_4673054107027495582_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SAYONARA is not goodbye. First seen as the Academy Award-winning film, love overcomes prejudice and clashing loyalties. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.panasianrep.org\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Tisa Chang<\/a> directs this re-imagining of the epic musical of US military in post-WWII Japan with the backdrop of the all-female Takarazuka dance theater.<\/p>\n<p>The musical follows Lloyd \u201cAce\u201d Gruver, played by Morgan McCann, a US military fighter pilot stationed in post-WWII Japan who is beginning to question his military destiny. When he falls in love with the beautiful Hana-Ogi, a star performer in the Takarazuka dance troupe played by Ya Han Chang, compassion and love heal prejudice despite the inevitable collision of two disparate worlds.<\/p>\n<p>The cast features Pan Asian veteran performer, Ako, who previously played the roles of Fumiko and Katsumi, joined by a stellar team including Thomas Bevan, Natsuko Hirano who is performing with the permission of Actors\u2019 Equity Association, Justin R G Holcomb, Scott Klavan,\u00a0Justin McEllroy, Rumi Oyama, Jennifer Piacenti, Edward Tolve, and Sandy York. The multi-faceted dancers are Carol Angeli, Yurina Kutsukake, Tsubasa Ogawa, Michiko Sasaki, Alicia Kaori Shumway and Jessica Wu. Stage Managers are Taylor Alyssa Marun and Elis C Arroyo.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets and showtimes visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telechargeoffers.com\/offeroverview.aspx?productid=10878\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.telechargeoffers.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, July 05 2:30PM Theater Row &#8211; The Clurman New York, New York 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-54161","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\/54161","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=54161"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54435,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54161\/revisions\/54435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}