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La MaMa in Association with Crossing Jamaica Avenue presents:                                        
DEADLY SHE-WOLF ASSASSIN AT ARMAGEDDON!
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"...glorious suprise...dramatic, flexible, and visionary" -Jazz Times


LA MAMA ELLEN STEWART THEATER
66 East 4th Street, New York City (btw Bowery & 2nd Ave)

MAY16 -JUNE2, 2013
Thursday-Friday 7:30 PM / Saturday 2:30 PM & 7:30 PM / Sunday 2:30PM

Ticket $30 /25 (Senior/Student)
Box Office 212.475.7710 / Online Ticketing www.lamama.org


Click  image below to view the excerpt from our workshop presentation


A MUSIC/MARTIAL ARTS/MANGA-THEATER BLOCKBUSTER!
Music & concept by Fred Ho / Written by Fred Ho & Ruth Margraff /Directed by Sonoko Kawahara
Sword Fighting Choreographed by Yoshi Amao / Martial Arts Choreographed by Emmanuel Brown
Produciton Design by Anka Lupes / Lighting by Chad McArver
Production Stage Manger Youn Jung Kim / Production Assistant Hui-Shurn Yong

with
Yoshi Amao / Marina Celander / Rick Ebihara / Jerry Ford/Ai Ikeda / Takemi Kitamura / Luca Nicola
Koji Nichiyama / Teake/Perry Youg / Bradley Fong / Jet Youn
Featuring The Afro American Music Ensemble led by Masaru Koga

ABOUT ARTISTS / PERFORMERS
/ THE AFRO ASIAN MUSIC ENSEMBLE

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ABOUT PRODUCTION
 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 unleash a music/theater work of dazzling spectacle and emotional power. 

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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.

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HISTORY OF THE PRODUCTION

iyaguDEADLY SHE WOLF was originally presented by the Japan Society Performing Arts Department and given a work-in-progress public viewing in April 2005, to sold out houses.  It also had two work-in-progress performances in June 2006 at the Mandell Theater at Drexell University in Philadelphia, presented by Peregrine Arts. In the Spring of 2011, Innova Recordings and Autonomedia Publishing co-published and released the actual manga (book) and compact disc combined set of DEADLY SHE-WOLF...

DEADLY SHE-WOLF ASSASSIN AT ARMAGEDDON! is made possible in part with public funds from the Fund for Creative Communities, supported by New York State Council on the Arts and the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, both administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

The Nancy Quinn Fund, a program of the Alliance of Resident Theaters/New York (A.R.T./New York)

lmcc     nyculture     nysca    brm
Supported by Consulate-General of Japan New York


Please help the production by making tax-deductible DONATION



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