Byron Au Yong

songs of dislocation

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Stuck Elevator
for tenor, vocal quartet, violin, cello, scrap metal percussion, bicycle wheel, soundtrack

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DESCRIPTION

Stuck Elevator is a comic-rap-scrap-metal-operatic musical prompted by the real-life experience of a deliveryman who gets trapped in an elevator after delivering a routine order of shrimp fried rice.


Working at Happy Dragon Restaurant in the Bronx, our hero pays a $60,000 debt to smugglers for his passage from China to the United States; from a country touted as the next global economic superpower to a country founded on the ideals of democracy and freedom. After 81 hours, he emerges transformed.


Follow the saga of this undocumented Chinese immigrant/indentured slave in 21st century America.


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CREATIVE TEAM
avant/classical/folk composer
Byron Au Yong
hip hop poet/playwright Aaron Jafferis


IN DEVELOPMENT

Stuck Elevator is a project of Creative Capital with additional support from API/2, Artist Trust and 4Culture.


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