AsianConnections.com -BD Wong Makes His NYC Directing Debut with The Yellow Wood

B.D. Wong is over the moon about his latest gig - producing and directing The Yellow Wood at the 2007 NY Musical Theatre Festival, with performances beginning September 19th-October 1, 2007 at Theatre Row's Acorn Theatre. The musical is an impressionistic chronicle about a biracial Korean American boy with attention-deficit disorder that takes place on the day he decides to forgo his Ritalin, and marks the New York directorial debut of the Tony Award-winning actor. The Yellow Wood's book and lyrics are by Michelle Elliott, with music and lyrics by Danny Larsen. The cast features Jason Tam (A Chorus Line, "One Life To Live"), Caissie Levy (Hairspray, Wicked), Randy Blair (Oliver!, The Singing Nun), Yuka Takara (A Chorus Line, Rent), MaryAnn Hu (Miss Saigon, TV's "Whoopi"), Patrick Boll (Faith Healer, Twentieth Century), Elizabeth Lundberg (Ragtime, A Christmas Carol), Sean Bradford (finalist on CBS/The Early Show's "My Broadway Debut"), Jill Abramovitz (Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me), Dennis Moench (All Shook Up, Altar Boyz), Scot Fedderly (Ragtime), and Marnie Schulenburg ("As The World Turns"). Ms. Elliot and Mr Larsen received the 2006 Richard Rodgers award and the Daryl Roth Award for The Yellow Wood, which is being presented by The New York Musical Theatre Festival and Gold Modern, Inc. The actor/director can currently be seen in filmmaker Arthur Dong's Hollywood Chinese, a documentary which shines the spotlight on Chinese in American film. Most recognized for his roles as Dr. George Huang on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit", as Dr. Henry Wu in Jurassic Park, Howard Weinstein in Father of the Bride 1 & 2, and Ngwang Jigme in Seven Years in Tibet, he is also an author, having written a novel about his experiences with surrogacy entitled Following Foo: the Electronic Adventures of the Chestnut Man. The stage veteran made his Broadway debut in David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly as the communist spy-in-drag, Song, and is the only actor to have garnered the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Clarence Derwent Award, and Theatre World Award for the same performance. He recently starred in Herringbone, a one-man musical at Williamstown and last appeared on Broadway in the 2004 revival of Pacific Overtures. Other stage credits include Chaucer In Rome at Williamstown, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown on Broadway, and Shanghai Moon. Performance Dates: WED 9/19 @ 8pm; SAT 9/22 @ 4:30pm; TUES 9/25 @ 4:30pm; FRI 9/28 @ 8:00pm; SAT 9/29 @ 1:00pm; MON 10/1 @ 4:30pm tickets are $20/ www.nymf.org/ 212-352-3101/ The Acorn Theatre/ 410 W.42nd St (Theatre Row)/NYC Visit www.NYMF.org to hear The Yellow Wood selection of songs.