Hawai’i: Dark Comic Opera on Immigrant Experience
October 18
Hawai’i Opera will perform Stuck Elevator, by composer Byron Au Yong and librettist Aaron Jafferis. This “opera musical theater hybrid” tells the story of a Chinese food deliveryman struggling for freedom from debt, human smugglers, loud-mouth coworkers, and the temptations of General Tso. Based on the true story of an undocumented immigrant who survived 81 hours (about 3 and a half days) in a Bronx elevator, this comic-rap-scrap-metal-opera shows increasingly fantastical attempts to escape being trapped in America. (Oct. 18-20)
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