32nd Season 1998
Heading East
Book & Lyrics By Robert Lee
Music By
Leon Ko
Directed
By Glen Chin
Musical
Direction By Greg Chun
Produced By
Roberta Chin
Set Design Akeime Mitterlehner
Costume
Designer Dori Quan
Lighting
Designer
G. Shizuko
Herrera
Sound Designer
Miles Ono
Property
Master Ken Takemoto
Stage
Manager
Ricardo
Figueroa
WORLD PREMIERE
Opening Date: May 29, 1998
HEADING EAST
is a funny, slightly off-beat musical about a family retracing its
footsteps from 1848 to the present. The musical
is part of a program designed in celebration of California's
Sesquicentennial (150th Anniversary) with the purpose of highlighting
the roles played by Asian Pacific's in the growth of California.
Cast
Reggie De
Leon..................................................................Ma,
Young Voice
Chanel Akiko
Hirai...................................Ma's
Wife, Miner, Chinese Musician
Alvin Ing........................................................................................Yeh-Yeh
Yumi Iwama.......................................Mrs.
Ng, Jasmine, Rallygoer I, Mrs. Lai
Radmar Agana
Jao.............................................................Timothy,
Siu Yee
Kurt
Kuniyoshi...Leonard, Storekeeper, Native Son I,
Immigration Official, Pak
Emily
Kuroda..........................................................................Diana,
Mother
Sabrina
Lu.....................................................................................Lee
Fung
Jenny
Murano..................................................................................Michiko
Tedd
Szeto....Clerk, Fortune Teller, Salesman, Ko, Bank
Manager, Native Son 2
Immigrant, Kim, Charlie, Carlos, Dr. Lai, Rallygoer 2
Ke'o
Woolford.........................................................................Chang,
Voice
Musicians
David Cheung...............................................................................Keyboards
Randall
Guiaya.............................................................................Keyboards
Lisa Joe........................................................................................Keyboards
Greg Chun......................................................................Keyboards
Alternate
HEADING EAST is sponsored in
part by the California Sesquicentennial Foundation
and the City of Los Angeles
Cultural Affairs Department.
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EAST WEST PLAYERS
The nation's premier Asian American theatre.
