A new musical by Commissioned artist Marcus Yi
“When the Fortune Cookie Crumbles” is a new musical that explores inter-generational trauma, eldercare, and urban displacement from an Asian American and Pacific Islander perspective.
The story centers around 35-year-old Grayson Wong, a queer lawyer with deep resentment of growing up in his family's Chinese restaurant in New York City's Chinatown. Faced with his mother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis, Grayson returns with the task of closing the establishment. But when the restaurant magically comes to life and refuses to be sold, Grayson is forced to confront the past he had been running from all these years.
Date: Saturday, June 21st @ 3pm
Time: 3pm
Address: 520 8th Ave 3rd Floor A.R.T./New York Rehearsal Studios, Studio E
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Yangtze Repertory Theatre Staff
Artistic Director: Chongren Fan
Executive Director: Sally Shen
Resident Dramaturg: Bindi Kang
Producing Associate: Yining Cao
About The Artist
Marcus Yi is an award-winning theatre writer/composer/director and performer based in New York. Marcus was an inaugural member of the 92nd Street Y Musical Theater Development Lab Collective, a 2021-2022 New Victory LabWorks Artist, and a Resident Artist with the American Lyric Theater.
He has been commissioned by The Kennedy Center, Queens Council on the Arts, American Lyric Theater, Atlanta Opera, Really Spicy Opera, First Stage and now Yangtze Rep.
Selected work includes Emily Song and the Queen of the Night (First Stage), The Dragon King's Daughter (The Kennedy Center), Lucky 88 (QCA Commission), Micro Shrimp The Musical (Winner of 11th Annual NJ Playwrights Contest), 29x/y (Wild Project, Paradise Factory), Pretty Little Mouth (Roy Arias), The Procedure (Gene Frankel Theater), The Ephemeral Lightness of Dreams: the dream plays (Lynn Redgrave Theatre), Thicker Than Water: the blood plays and Baby Baby!. His work has been produced by the National Asian Artists Project, Yangtze Rep, Prospect Theater, Pan Asian Rep, Asian American Film Lab, The Secret Theatre, New Jersey Playwrights Contest, Ingenue Theater, Modern Griot Theatre, Ticket2eternity Productions, Queens Players, Rising Solo, POPLAB, URNetworkAlliance, NYC Actors and Playwrights Collective, All Out Arts, Short Play Lab, Angry Head Productions and Living Room Theater. His work has been seen at the New York Times Center, Green Room 42, The Duplex, National Opera Center, Midtown International Theater Festival, Planet Connections Theater Festivity, Fresh Fruit Festival, and the Midwinter Madness Theater Festival.
“I thought this would be a good fit for the team because of their history in producing shows that were at the intersection of AAPI intergenerational healing as well as LGBTQIA issues.” - Marcus