Taiwan Musical“April Rain”2010 Performance Tour （「四月望雨」音樂劇）

Taiwan Musical “April Rain” 2010 Performance Tour

（「四月望雨」音樂劇）

Date: 2010 May 7^th~ May 9^th

Time: May 7^th (Friday) 19:30 p.m., May 8^th (Saturday) 14:30 p.m., 

         May 8^th (Saturday) 19:30 p.m., May 9^th (Saturday) 14:30 p.m.     

         May 9^th (Saturday) 19:30 p.m.

Venue: National Theater (CKS Cultural Center in Taipei) 

Editior／Felicity Fei-Hsien Chiu（邱斐顯）

Revised by Peggy Carr

Taiwan Musical“April Rain”2010 Performance Tour

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A note about Taiwan musical “April Rain” 

The musical “April Rain” is the first Taiwanese musical to recall a long-gone and almost forgotten period in the history of Taiwan, an era of blood, dreams, hopes, sweat and tears that comes alive through the compositions of the great Taiwanese composer Deng Yu-Shian（鄧雨賢）.  

This musical was named April Rain（四月望雨）based on the combination of the first Chinese character of four pieces of Deng’s famous works -- “Love Song of Four Seasons”（四季紅）, “Sorrow in a Moonlit Night”（月夜愁）, “Longing for the Spring Breeze”（望春風）, and “Flowers in a Rainy Night”（雨夜花）. 

Blending Deng Yu-Shian’s own musical legacy with new pieces composed especially for this musical, “April Rain” tries to create a mesmerizing mixture of old and new styles. “

April Rain” was designed to be performed in four languages, namely Holo, Hakka, Japanese and Chinese. It premiered in June 2007 and will be staged a third time from June to August 2008. According to Yang Chung-Heng（楊忠衡）, artistic supervisor of All Music Theater, it was the first Taiwanese Musical in Taiwan and in history. He said he hoped that “April Rain” would herald a new era for musicals and theater performances in Taiwan.