Making tracks

Making Tracks is an Asian American musical theater production by Second Generation, with concept and book by Welly Yang.

Making Tracks tells the story of the rich and diverse history of Asians in America. Asians were often limited to playing the roles of "the gook," "the geek," and "the gangster." In the summer of 1993, Welly Yang began searching through history books and reading stories of Asian Americans

In 1998, Yang asked two friends, Woody Pak, a recent Juilliard graduate who I met through a mutual friend, and Brian Yorkey, a classmate from Columbia University to collaborate on a rock musical to tell these stories.

The original show was produced show Off-Broadway in cooperation with the Taipei Theater in New York City in February 1999, bringing on another Columbia classmate, Lenny Leibowitz, as director. It employed a cast of Asian American theater professionals, many who had performed with Yang from Miss Saigon.

Village Theatre invited the show to Washington state to continue developing the show as part of the Village Originals program in the spring of 2000. That production added a new second act. After that successful production, the Taipei Philharmonic Foundation invited the to Taiwan, and launched the show's concept album, in collaboration with Sony Music Taiwan.

Musical numbers

;Act One"Prologue: A Cemetery, San Francisco, California 2001 ":*Making Tracks (Grandfather )"Scene 1: The Sierra Nevada Mountains, Near Cape Horn, 1865 ":*Making Tracks (Wei, Dai Lum, Railroad Workers):*Many Rivers (Dai Lum, Wen):*This is Our Day (Dai Lum, Wei, Railroad Workers):*Making Tracks (Reprise) (Wei, Dai Lum, Railroad Workers)"Scene 2: Angel Island, San Francisco Bay, 1885 ":*Mei Guo (Lucky, Immigrants):*Mei Guo (Reprise) (Older Immigrant, Lucky, Immigrants):*Many Rivers (Reprise) (Lucky, Translator):*Mei Guo (Reprise) (Lucky, Wei)"Scene 3: Osaka, Japan and San Francisco, California, 1918-1941 ":*Picture Perfect (Miyuki, Brides}:*So Now I See You (Miyuki, Tokashi)"Scene 4: San Francisco, 1941 ":*Step On In (Charlie Chuck, Forbidden City Performers):*Dance the World Away (Frankie, Dottie):*Dance the World Away (Dottie)"Scene 5: Heart Mountain, Wyoming, 1942-1944 ":*Shikataganai (Tokashi, Paul, Miyuki, Frankie, Internees):*Stars (Paul, Miyuki, Soldiers)"Scene 6: Heart Mountain, Wyoming and San Francisco, California, 1944 ":*The Lucky One (Paul, Grandfather);Act Two:"Prologue: A Club, The Bowery, New York City, 2001 ":*I Will Walk Away (Dylan)"Scene 1: A Townhouse, Pacific Heights, San Francisco""Scene 2: An Office, Mission District":*The Way a Day Goes By (Meg, T.J., Grace, Minister, Mourners)"Scene 3: A Cemetery, Daly City, in the Hills South of San Francisco ":*Look Inside (Grandfather, David):*I'm Not the One (Dylan)"Scene 4: A Hospital, Potrero Hill ":*Mei Guo (Reprise)/I'm Not the One (Reprise) (Dylan, David)"Scene 5: An Office, Mission District ":*Right Behind Your Eyes (Grace, Dylan)"Scene 6: An Office, Chinatown""Scene 7: A Townhouse, Pacific Heights ":*Stars (Reprise) (Dylan)"Scene 8: A Nightclub, Near Union Square ":*Must be the Music (Club singer, Ensemble)"Scene 9: A Townhouse, Pacific Heights ":*Go to Her (Grandfather, David, Dylan)"Scene 10: An Abandoned Nightclub, Sutter Street ":*Dance the World Away (Reprise) (Dylan):*Time and Again (Dylan, Grace)"Scene 11: A Sweatshop, Chinatown ":*This is Our Day (Reprise) (Grandfather, Dylan, Meg, Ensemble)"Scene 12: A Hospital, Potrero Hill ":*So Now I See You (Reprise) (T.J., Meg)"Scene 13: A Cemetery, Daly City, in the Hills South of San Francisco ":*Wings Like a Dove (Meg, Ensemble):*Making Tracks (Reprise) (Dylan, Grandfather, Ensemble)

External links

* [http://www.2g.org/makingtracks/index.html Making Tracks home page]