Chikamatsu's unstaged masterpiece THE LEGEND OF THE MORNING GLORY comes alive with:
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The Haunting Eloquence of Brenda Wong Aoki, Master Storyteller
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The Thunder Drums of Maize Daiko
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The Mystic Melodies of Christopher Yohmei, Tokyo's Premiere Shakuhachi Artist
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The Dance Explorations of KK Aoki Izu
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Under the Musical Direction of Mark Izu
The Legend of the Morning Glory
The story, a haunting love tale from the Kabuki, tells of a girl, the daughter of a powerful samurai,
who meets and falls in love with a boy from a poor family. When the boy’s love poem
about the morning glory blows into the girl’s boat, she is forever determined to marry
him, turning down each of the rich suitors her father has lined up for her. Finally she
runs away, determined to marry the boy. Unaccustomed to the world outside her father’s
castle, she cries herself blind and makes a living as The Morning Glory, an itinerate
storyteller famed for her tale of lost love. In the end, the two lovers meet one last time
at a lonely inn on the banks of the Oi River.
Fri. April 25 8 PM
Sat. April 26 2 PM Matinee
The Eugene and Elinor Friend Center for the Arts, Kanbar Hall
The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, 3200 California Street
(415) 292-1233
www.jccsf.org/arts
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