Making tracks
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Making Tracks is an Asian American musical theater production by Second Generation, with concept and book by Welly Yang.
Making Tracks tells the story of the rich and diverse history of Asians in America. Asians were often limited to playing the roles of "the gook," "the geek," and "the gangster." In the summer of 1993, Welly Yang began searching through history books and reading stories of Asian Americans
In 1998, Yang asked two friends, Woody Pak, a recent Juilliard graduate who I met through a mutual friend, and Brian Yorkey, a classmate from Columbia University to collaborate on a rock musical to tell these stories.
The original show was produced show Off-Broadway in cooperation with the Taipei Theater in New York City in February 1999, bringing on another Columbia classmate, Lenny Leibowitz, as director. It employed a cast of Asian American theater professionals, many who had performed with Yang from Miss Saigon.
Village Theatre invited the show to Washington state to continue developing the show as part of the Village Originals program in the spring of 2000. That production added a new second act. After that successful production, the Taipei Philharmonic Foundation invited the to Taiwan, and launched the show's concept album, in collaboration with Sony Music Taiwan.
[edit] Musical numbers
Prologue: A Cemetery, San Francisco, California 2001
Scene 1: The Sierra Nevada Mountains, Near Cape Horn, 1865
Scene 2: Angel Island, San Francisco Bay, 1885
Scene 3: Osaka, Japan and San Francisco, California, 1918-1941
Scene 4: San Francisco, 1941
Scene 5: Heart Mountain, Wyoming, 1942-1944
Scene 6: Heart Mountain, Wyoming and San Francisco, California, 1944
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Scene 1: A Townhouse, Pacific Heights, San Francisco Scene 2: An Office, Mission District
Scene 3: A Cemetery, Daly City, in the Hills South of San Francisco
Scene 4: A Hospital, Potrero Hill
Scene 5: An Office, Mission District
Scene 6: An Office, Chinatown Scene 7: A Townhouse, Pacific Heights
Scene 8: A Nightclub, Near Union Square
Scene 9: A Townhouse, Pacific Heights
Scene 10: An Abandoned Nightclub, Sutter Street
Scene 11: A Sweatshop, Chinatown
Scene 12: A Hospital, Potrero Hill
Scene 13: A Cemetery, Daly City, in the Hills South of San Francisco
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