Video: George Takei's musical 'Allegiance' and Invitation to Submit Video Promo for It before Austin Event. Deadline August 29, 2013

Received from Leng Wong of Lucky Chaos Theatre Projects:

Enter a video to win a spot in the high-dollar VIP Reception on Sept. 3rd where you can meet George Takei!

What do you win?

1. Entry to the VIP reception ($1000 value) before the screening of the musical "Allegiance," based on the memoirs of George Takei. In attendance will be Mr. Takei, Mr. Thione (Creator/Producer), and Mr. Leung (Main Actor).

2. The winning entry and runner-ups will be put into a DVD and presented to Mr. Takei and Mr. Thione as a memento of Austin’s love and support for Allegiance the musical.

3. The winning entry and runner-ups may be shown as a pre-show at the screening.

What do you need to do?

Submit a promo about George Takei’s new musical (see instructions below) and post it on the Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Austin-sings-for-Mr-Takei/165191690335066)

You can enter up to 10 entries You can enter as a solo, duo or group entry You MUST reside in the Greater Austin Area Your entry must, in 3 minutes or less, have the following requirement:

-have a focus on George Takei and his musical, “Allegiance.”

That’s it! Creativity is most important! Sing, rap, dance, make a sketch, do some slam poetry. The more creative, the better!

Deadline is 11:59pm Thursday, August 29, 2013

Whether you win or not, you can still be involved if you don’t have the big bucks! Enter your name in the volunteer lottery to be a volunteer on the day of the event.

http://www.allegiancetexas.org/About

Video: Highlights from Allegiance, produced at the Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, fall of 2012

THE ReSET PROJECT, Lucky Chaos Theatre Projects at the Salvage Vanguard Theatre, August 2 - September 7, 2013

(performing at the Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Rd. - click for map)


presents

The ReSet Project

directed by Asaf Ronen

(www.LuckyChaos.com)

 August 2nd, 3rd, 9th, 10th & September 6th, 7th at 8pm at Salvage Vanguard Theater 
THE LIFE YOU'VE LIVED IS ONLY THE FIRST DRAFT. True lives, reinterpreted. Improv meets drama on a plane of fantasy.

General admission $10. For details and tickets, visit www.luckychaos.com

What if you could take a point in your life and ReSet it? The ReSet Project brings together eight improvisational actors, all over the age of 40, to reflect on their lives and share true stories of crucial crossroads from their past. This treasure trove of experiences becomes the inspiration for improvised fantasy and fantastical tales.

Kathy Rose Center (Lucky Chaos Theatre Project)

Using elements which include sustained silences and childlike extremes, director Asaf Ronen (Spirited, The Suitcase) again pushes the boundaries of the art of improvisation to create a theater piece infused with authenticity, playfulness and intimacy.

In addition to the ensemble performers, each show will also feature a guest from Austin’s creative community, over the age of 40, who will share their story and serve as inspiration. Come see the show celebrating, and inspired, by Austin’s older artists.




ABOUT LuckyChaos Theater Projects: LuckyChaos Theater Projects produce works by or about Asian Americans as well as other under-represented communities. We hope to increase dialogue about these experiences through the performance arts. Our projects are stories from a different point of view and range from published works to original works including submissions from the community. We explore all mediums including scripted, experimental, improv and movement. Come checkout our shows – every 1^st and 2^nd weekends of the month at Salvage Vanguard Theater (Studio) – Fri/Sat 8pm and 1^st Sat 10pm. “Create Art. Create Identity. Create Possibilities. Play On!”

(Click to go to the AustinLiveTheatre front page)

Auditions of Actors 40 years and older for The ReSet Project, Lucky Chaos Theater Projects, June 3, 2013

Asaf Ronen and Lucky Chaos Theater are currently auditioning people for an upcoming semi-scripted, mostly improvisational dramatic theater production: The ReSet Project.

What if you could revisit a point in your life and ReSet it to something else?
We’re currently seeking actors of all types age 40 and older for a show where we will examine the ‘what-might-have-been’ of points in our lives. Actors are highly encouraged to bring real-life experiences to this intentionally personal theater piece. Some writing will be involved.

Auditions will be in 30-minute slots on Monday, June 3rd from 7pm through 10pm. Email Asaf Ronen at yesandasaf@gmail.com with your preference of audition time as well as a writing sample if you have one.There are total of 6 performance on Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm on 8/2, 8/3, 8/9, 8/10, 9/5 and 9/6 at Salvage Vanguard Theater (Studio).

Bio for Asaf Ronen: Hailing from NYC, Asaf Ronen is nationally recognized, longtime improvisation teacher and performer and in addition to a multitude of improvisational work, he has taught improvisational techniques as a process for devised theatre at theatre companies in Austin.He is the creator and Editor-in-Chief of YESand.com, a website devoted to improvisation, and is the author of the book, Directing Improv: Show the Way By Getting Out of the Way. He has taught improvisation in Canada, Great Britain, Norway and in twenty-two of The United States. He has also taught throughout NYC’s public school system as a resident artist through LEAP and New Horizons and as part of Weist-Barron’s ACTeen. Asaf has worked with Cirque du Soleil as a scout for improvisational talent. His directing credits include the all-girl group goga, the improvised comic book adventure show Ka-Baam!!, and Death in the City, a dramatic longform improv piece, at the NY Fringe Festival. His Austin directing credits include True West (Blue Theatre), Spirited: Improvised Dreamscapes (Hideout Theater), Only Three Will Survive...(Institution Theater) and Firefly The Musical (Institution Theater). He was also a producer on Trust Us, This Is All Made Up, a documentary on legendary improvisers TJ & Dave that had its world premiere at Austin’s South by Southwest Festival and a writer on the soon-to-be-released Days of Delusion. Asaf is the co-founder and education director at the Institution Theater in Austin.

ABOUT LuckyChaos Theater Projects: LuckyChaos Theater Projects produce works by or about Asian Americans as well as other under-represented communities. We hope to increase dialogue about these experiences through the performance arts. Our projects are stories from a different point of view and range from published works to original works including submissions from the community. We explore all mediums including scripted, experimental, improv and movement. Come checkout our shows – every 1st and 2nd weekends of the month at Salvage Vanguard Theater (Studio) – Fri/Sat 8pm and 1st Sat 10pm. “Create Art. Create Identity. Create Possibilities. Play On!”

Opportunity: Cooks/Storytellers for Asian-American Theatrical Potluck, Lucky Chaos Theatre Project at the Salvage Vanguard, May 31, 2013

LuckyChaos Theater Projects celebrates Asian American Heritage Month!


Behind every made-from-scratch entrée to freshly baked pie, a home-cooked meal is not only a scrumptious delight, but also a story from the maker’s soul. In celebration of Asian American Heritage Month, LuckyChaos Theater Projects is proud to present Home Cooked Stories (HCS): From Our Kitchen to Your Belly, a three-course smorgasbord of appetizers, entrees, desserts and STORIES from the cooks themselves.


For this [un]traditional potluck, we are looking for fifteen volunteers from the Asian American community who are willing to cook and share their stories about their food. Whether if it’s your favorite Pad Thai recipe to your mom’s kheer, HCS hopes to bring all food lovers who want to share their food and the stories that accompany them.
We are looking for five people for every appetizer, entrée, and dessert dish to come and share their food. Volunteer cooks/storytellers will gain free admission to the event. Each dish needs to feed about 15-20 people. If you are interested in cooking or have any questions, please contact us at info@luckychaos.com. If you are interested in sharing your stories, you do not have to prepare a speech, we will have informal interviews with you and will keep it laid-back.
Event admission is $10. Tickets are limited, so please reserve your spot soon!

The event is at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, May 31 at the Salvage Vanguard, 2803 Manor Rd. -- click for map.
 
Click here for tickets via eventbrite.  Tickets are limited, so please reserve your spot soon!

Co-Producers/Organizers: Eric Oeur -- Hanna Huang -- Leng Wong
ABOUT LuckyChaos Theater Projects: LuckyChaos Theater Projects produce works by or about Asian Americans as well as other under-represented communities. We hope to increase dialogue about these experiences through the performance arts. Our projects are stories from a different point of view and range from published works to original works including submissions from the community. We explore all mediums including scripted, experimental, improv and movement. Come checkout our shows – every 1st and 2nd weekends of the month at Salvage Vanguard Theater (Studio) – Fri/Sat 8pm and 1st Sat 10pm. “Create Art. Create Identity. Create Possibilities. Play On!"

WHAT'S GOING ON? (from Brecht's Good Person of Szechuan), Generic Ensemble Company at the Salvage Vanguard, May 3 - 11, 2013

Generic Ensemble Company in conjunction with the Lucky Chaos Theatre Project presents

What’s Goin’ On? (Workshop)

Friday-Saturday May 3-4; 10-11, 8 pm

Salvage Vanguard Theatre (2803 Manor Rd, Austin, TX 78722 - click for map).




 








 
What’s Goin’ On is a an ensemble-based, original performance reinterpreting Bertolt Brecht’s classic play, The Good Person of Szechwan, exploring binary notions of Good/Evil, Male/Female, Wealth/Poverty, Coercion/Consent and Artifice/Authenticity. Simultaneously critiquing Brecht’s treatment of gender, sexuality and orientalism in Szechwan while also drawing inspiration from it, this show examines the question: What does it mean to be virtuous in our current historical moment, when societal pressures and inequality continue to marginalize our bodies and lives?
Created from scratch by the performance ensemble, What’s Goin’ On? employs new text created by ensemble members layered with activist aesthetics, choreographed movement, indeterminate games, quotidian rituals made extraordinary, and simultaneous conflicting actions to present a dense and complex collage. Drawing material relevant to ensemble members’ daily lives, What’s Goin’ On? reflects the individual identities and personalities of each collaborator, while also reflecting The Generic Ensemble Company’s continued commitment to make the invisible visible through bold, socially relevant, body-centered theatre that showcases mostly-queer identified, mostly-people of color who are mostly women-identified.
This piece is an in-progress performance featuring: Morgan Robyn Collado, Kimberly Curette, Kirsche Dickson, Ashley Hicks, Anna McConnell, James McMaster, Julie Moore, Julián Padilla, Saray de Jesus Rosales, Wendy Vastine, Leng Wong, and kt shorb with support from Kimberly Alidio, Margaux Binder, Paige Binder, and Laura Khalil.
Tickets are sliding scale $5-10.
What’s Goin’ On? is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division.
 
(Click to go to the AustinLiveTheatre front page)

NORMAL LIKE US: THE DEPRESSION CHRONICLES, Lucky Chaos Theatre Project, April 6, 2013 (continuing monthly)

(performing at the Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Rd. - click for map)

presents

Normal Like Us! The Depression Chronicles 

Saturday, April 6, 2013 at 10:00 p.m. at the Salvage Vanguard Theater.

The show will continue on the first Saturday of the month until August (April 6, May 4, June 1, July 6, and August 3.)

Collaborative. Experimental. Music. Drama. Humor. Yea, we are doing this! Come experience it from our point of view.


How can someone convey the experience of living with depression and do it in a way that is both easy to understand and entertaining? Leng Wong, producing director of Lucky Chaos Theater, set out to do just that with Normal Like Us! The Depression Chronicles. The show is a collaborative, experimental production of performers with first-hand experience. It combines humor, music, and drama to present the realities of life with depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and other mental health conditions.

How can someone convey the experience of living with depression and do it in a way that is both easy to understand and entertaining? Leng Wong, producing director of Lucky Chaos Theater, set out to do just that with Normal Like Us! The Depression Chronicles. The show is a collaborative, experimental production of performers with first-hand experience. It combines humor, music, and drama to present the realities of life with depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and other mental health conditions.

The performers in this ensemble-based work offer views from the inside. Most cast members are Austin artists who perform regularly and are trained in voice, theater, and improvisation. Some cast members are not trained performers, and will be appearing on stage for the first time to share their experiences. The vignettes use music, humor and drama to illustrate their personal perspective of the subject. The show includes an original mini-musical written by Austin musicians/songwriters Jeff Luna and Eddie Lehwald. Live accompaniment by Eddie!

Event Details:

LuckyChaos Theater Projects presents: “Normal Like Us! The Depression Chronicles”

Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Road, Austin, TX 78722

Humor! Music! Drama! A collaborative, experimental show by and about people living with it

General admission $10. For details and tickets, visit www.luckychaos.comTickets here: http://luckychaosdc.eventbrite.com/

Produced/Directed by Leng Wong
ABOUT LuckyChaos Theater Projects: LuckyChaos Theater Projects produce works by or about Asian Americans as well as other under-represented communities. We hope to increase dialogue about these experiences through the performance arts. Our projects are stories from a different point of view and range from published works to original works including submissions from the community. We explore all mediums including scripted, experimental, improv and movement. Come checkout our shows – every 1st and 2nd weekends of the month at Salvage Vanguard Theater (Studio) – Fri/Sat 8pm and 1st Sat 10pm. “Create Art. Create Identity. Create Possibilities. Play On!”

(Click to go to the AustinLiveTheatre front page)

Normal Like Us: The Depression Chronicles, Lucky Chaos Theatre Project, March 3, 2013 (continuing monthly)

(performing at the Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Rd. - click for map)

presents

Normal Like Us! The Depression Chronicles

premieres on Saturday, March 2, 2013 at 10:00 p.m. at the Salvage Vanguard Theater. 

The show will continue on the first Saturday of the month until August (April 6, May 4, June 1, July 6, and August 3.)
Collaborative. Experimental. Music. Drama. Humor. Yea, we are doing this! Come experience it from our point of view.
The performers in this ensemble-based work offer views from the inside. Most cast members are Austin artists who perform regularly and are trained in voice, theater, and improv. Some cast members are not trained performers, and will be appearing on stage for the first time to share their experiences. The vignettes use music, humor and drama to illustrate their personal perspective of the subject. We will also be reading submissions from the community. The show includes an original song written by Austin musician/songwriters Jeff Luna, Eddie Lehwald and Emily Breedlove.
Live accompaniment by Eddie!
Tickets here: http://luckychaosdc.eventbrite.com/
Produced/Directed by Leng Wong
Ensemble cast:
Suny Ader
Emily Breedlove
Clay Loban
Todd Hart
Mike Nystul
Edwin Wise
David Wells
Sandra Ybarra
Leng Wong
Original song written by Jeff Luna, Eddie Lehwald and Emily Breedlove
Tech: Cortney DeAngelo



ABOUT LuckyChaos Theater Projects:
LuckyChaos Theater Projects produce works by or about Asian Americans as well as other under-represented communities. We hope to increase dialogue about these experiences through the performance arts. Our projects are stories from a different point of view and range from published works to original works including submissions from the community. We explore all mediums including scripted, experimental, improv and movement. Come checkout our shows – every 1st and 2nd weekends of the month at Salvage Vanguard Theater (Studio) – Fri/Sat 8pm and 1st Sat 10pm. “Create Art. Create Identity. Create Possibilities. Play On!”
(Click to go to the AustinLiveTheatre front page)

LET'S TALK mixe and talk showr, Lucky Chaos Theatre Project at the Salvage Vanguard Theatre, January 11, 2013

 
(performing at the Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Rd. - click for map)

presents

LuckyChaos kicks off its 2013 season at our new home Salvage Vanguard Theater (SVT)! With monthly shows ranging from comedy to dramatic, scripted to improvised, we are taking chances and hope you join us in our journey.

Click for tickets at Eventbrite ($6.12)

We kick off our 2013 season with Let’s Talk! followed by a mixer! Let’s Talk is a fun ‘Talk and Show’ where we chat with our guests and catch a glimpse of the person behind the art, and then they will treat us to a sample of their work. Come join us and talk to our guests after in the Meet&Greet, and stay for the LuckyChaos Kickoff Mixer! We would love to talk to you about our upcoming shows and the inspiration behind them.

Talk show guests are:

DaXun Zhang is a double-bassist who’s toured with YoYo Ma, the celebrated cellist. Daxun has won numerous international awards as well as performed extensively with prominent orchestras nationally and internationally. "If the bass is finally to produce a headliner, the instrument can have no better champion than Zhang," (The Washington Post, March 2005) Daxun has graciously agreed to perform some of his favorite pieces!

Yen Tan, previously featured on the frontpage of the Austin Chronicle, is a professional graphic designer who designs the most kickass and sought-after posters. His newest feature film, Pit Stop, is premiering in the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in 2013.

Beili Liu is a multidisciplinary artist who specializes in time and process based installations using materials ranging from thread, paper, incense, wood, salt to water. She has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. Her art is “materially simple but metaphorically rich” (Art in America Review, April 2009).

Anuradha Naimpally has been performing worldwide for over 30 years.and is widely respected as a performer and teacher of the Classical Indian dance technique Bharata Natyam. She has received awards and accolades nationally and internationally. We will be treated to a sample of this expressive and vibrant artform.

Jingqun Shao is a master teacher of the classical Chinese instrument Guzheng. She’s spent over 40 years mastering this instrument, studying under the tutelage of prominent masters in China and in later years, performing and teaching around the world. Her students have won awards and she’s developed over the years, her own signature style of playing. Come for this rare opportunity to see her perform a piece for us.


ABOUT LuckyChaos Theater Projects: LuckyChaos Theater Projects produce works by or about Asian Americans as well as other under-represented communities. We hope to increase dialogue about these experiences through the performance arts. Our projects are stories from a different point of view and range from published works to original works including submissions from the community. We explore all mediums including scripted, experimental, improv and movement. Come checkout our shows – every 1st and 2nd weekends of the month at Salvage Vanguard Theater (Studio) – Fri/Sat 8pm and 1st Sat 10pm. “Create Art. Create Identity. Create Possibilities. Play On!”

www.luckychaos.com

(Click to go to the AustinLiveTheatre front page)

Upcoming: This Feather House, DysTheatre & Lucky Chaos at Casa de Luz, September 2 - 22

and

present

by Linda Ramsey

September 7 - 22, 8pm, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays,
at Casa De Luz (1706 Toomey)(click for map)

Tickets: http://thisfeatherhouse.eventbrite.com/

More info: http://www.dystheatre.com/this-feather-house/

Fundraising Show, Saturday, August 25th: http://ainluckychaos.eventbrite.com/

The world premiere of the world's first Wasserstein Prize winning play, from Japanese-American Austin local Linda Ramsey. A technicolor tale of ads and auras. Yoshiko sees the world in colors. Her daughter Jackie sees it in cheese factories. Elliot sees the world through the eyes of two hundred children. And Yoshiko's clients all see it through the prism of her fine-feathered, tanuki-ridden home. Lovingly performed at Casa de Luz, "a place that houses the light," and a great place to get some fresh, healthy dinner before the show.

Eggplant parmesan not included. However the final performance, Saturday the 22nd, will be catered by our hosts at Casa de Luz!

Starring

Leng Wong as Yoshiko

Linda Ramsey as Jackie

Cassidy Risien as Mona

Steven Alford as Elliot

Jeff Britt as Alessandro

Kacy Todd as Trixie

Directed by

Lindsay McKenna & Michael Ferstenfeld

Lighting Design by

Steve Shirey

(Click to go to the AustinLiveTheatre front page)