Date: Thursday May 16, 2013 through June 2, 2013
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: La Mama (74A East 4th Street, btw Bowery & 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003, 212-475-7710)
Ticket: $30
Genre: music theater
A Martial Arts-Samurai Sword Fighting-Music/Theater Fantasy Action-Adventure Blockbuster homage to Lone Wolf and Cub(Kozure Ogami) in a story of imperial decline and desperation, revenge, intrigue and catharsis. Fred Ho’s super-talented team unleashes a music/theater work of dazzling spectacle and emotional power.
Music and Concept by Fred Ho / Written by Fred Ho and Ruth Margraff / Directed by Sonoko Kawahara
Raised as a weapon by a brutal conspirator, a young female assassin discovers that her target has spun the empire of Japan into crisis and ruin–and–is none other than her father. The Shogun, in a rage, has fired her master and hired three superwarriors from the West to eliminate this Last Wolf of Japan who defies his legacy. Torn between loyalty to her mission, her nation and her soul, she must face the unimaginable at the twilight of an imperial epoch.
DEADLY SHE-WOLF ASSASSIN AT ARMAGEDDON! is the latest music/theater and martial arts tour de force from collaborators Fred Ho and Ruth Margraff. A daring and imaginative homage to the 1970s Japanese raging cult manga and movies hit, Lone Wolf and Cub (Kozure Ookami), which has inspired many other adaptations and works in comic books and film over the past decades. DEADLY SHE-WOLF…explodes with a ferocious stylistic mix of Japanese Noh theater and modern-day anime and manga influences with unique multi-martial arts and sword fighting choreography and a glorious score fusing traditional Japanese music and soul-jazz.
Composer-creator-writer Fred Ho brings to the stage the world premiere of DEADLY SHE-WOLF ASSASSIN AT ARMAGEDDON!, his latest installment in the music-driven martial arts epics for which he has been recognized as both pioneer and its most innovative leader.
PERFORMERS
Marina Celander, Yoshi Amao, Ai Ikeida, Teake, Luca Nicora, Jerry Ford, Perry Yung, Rick Ebihara, Takemi Kitamura, Koji Nishiyama, Bradley Fong and Jet Yung
ARTISTS & PRODUCTION
Photo courtesy of La Mama
Fred Ho (composer / co-writer)
Ruth Margraff (co-writer)
Sonoko Kawahara (director)
Yoshi Amao (co-choreographer)
Emmanuel Brown (co-choreographer)
Anka Lupes (costumes)
Chad McArver (lighting)
Joseph Yoon (producer)
Youn Jung Kim (stage manager)
Produced by Crossing Jamaica Avenue and Big Red Media, Inc. /Commissioned by The Japan Society and Peregrine Arts
