I quote Poots in my article for TDF Stages about Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise, which Poots is calling a kung fu musical. So get ready for “Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise” (starting June 22), a commission that brings together the director Chen Shi-Zheng (“Monkey: Journey to the West”), the screenwriters Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger (“Kung Fu Panda”), and the enigmatic singer-songwriter Sia for a “futuristic kung-fu musical” that unfolds around and above its spectators. Theater lovers should expect a spirit of adventure and invention from the shows at The Shed, according to Alex Poots, the artistic director of this new 500 million arts center on West 30thStreet. The Shed, the new arts venue at Hudson Yards, has sought cultural cachet by cross-pollinating the likes of Gerhard Richter, Renée Fleming, and Steve Reich. After a sold-out run at the SoHo Rep this past summer, Jackie Sibblies Drury’s “Fairview,” which won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for drama, moves to the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, starting June 2 a matryoshka doll of racial perception, the play steamrolls the fourth wall as an African-American family throws a birthday party. The show, last seen in New York in 2016, comes to Ars Nova’s new downtown home, at Greenwich House, starting May 30. Sheppard, a chipper lesson from two middle-school teachers on America’s sins transforms into a sadomasochistic fantasia. In “Underground Railroad Game,” written and performed by Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R. Check out the gallery below for a look at Dragon Spring Phoenix Rises rehearsals, which spanned over New York City and Beijing. Eighteen years later, Little Phoenix (Jasmine Chiu) and Little Dragon (Ji Tuo) meet, leading to a grand finale.Two recent productions that deal with uncomfortable racial truths return for encores. When Lone Peak’s protégé, Lee (Dickson Mbi), turns traitor, evil rears its ugly head. Pince is after the Dragon Spring, which is rumored to offer eternal life. In the mostly senseless fable, aging kung fu master Lone Peak (David Patrick Kelly) is not happy when his daughter, Little Lotus (Jasmine Chiu), is being courted by flashy billionaire Doug Pince (David Torok, a martial artist who needs more acting lessons). Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise tells the story of a secret sect in Flushing, Queens, that possesses the magical power to extend human life, and the twin brother and sister caught in the struggle to control it. Rylander and Leigh Sachwitz’s colorful, swirling projections. The story shuttles between modern-day Flushing, Queens, and the near future, although you can’t really tell that from Mikiko Suzuki MacAdams’s set, which features a very cool ancient boulder on one side, a ladder that leads to a walkway in a silly, glitzy nightclub on the other, and hanging cloths that rise and fall, beautifully illuminated by lighting designer Tobias G. Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise Tickets Through July 27 at The Shed. World premiere Shed commission features some awe-inspiring stagecraft (photo by Stephanie Berger) And the Shed especially, supported with 75.5 million in public funds, needs to set higher goals than those of a high-end mall.
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The final twenty minutes of the kung-fu musical are everything audiences hoped for, an exhilarating combination of martial arts and movement (choreographed by Zhang Jun and Akram Khan), sound (by Brandon Wolcott) and music (by Bobby Krlic and Arca), acrobatics, and storytelling what comes before is a treacly narrative with mundane songs (by Sia) right out of a Disney movie in fact, the show was co-conceived and written by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, the duo behind the DreamWorks family film series Trolls and Kung Fu Panda.
Perhaps the China-born, New York-based director is used to longer spectacles, because it takes quite a while for his hundred-minute Shed commission, Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise, to get cooking at the McCourt, where it continues through July 27. In 1999, Chen Shi-Zheng presented his widely hailed twenty-hour production of The Peony Pavilion at Lincoln Center. featured in the original musical production of Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise directed by Chen Shi-Zheng with choreography by Akram Khan for The Shed NYC. Tuesday – Sunday through July 27, $25-$99 Lone Peak (David Patrick Kelly) leads a ritual for his daughter, Little Lotus (PeiJu Chien-Pott), in Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise at the Shed (photo by Stephanie Berger)
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