{"id":440996,"date":"2025-12-11T21:53:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/440996\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:53:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:53:20","slug":"crazy-rich-asians-musical-workshop-held-in-new-york-city-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/440996\/","title":{"rendered":"CRAZY RICH ASIANS Musical Workshop Held in New York City This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A workshop for the musical adaptation of Crazy Rich Asians is being held in New York City this week. Recent social media posts have signaled that the stage version of <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Jon-M-Chu\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Jon M. Chu<\/a>&#8216;s hit film is being worked on, with some cast members and creative team being revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The musical features a book by <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Leah-Nanako-Winkler\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Leah Nanako Winkler<\/a>, music by <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Helen-Park\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Helen Park<\/a>, and lyrics by <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Amanda-Green\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Amanda Green<\/a> and Tat Tong.\u00a0<a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Jon-M-Chu\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Jon M. Chu<\/a> <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/article\/Jon-M-Chu-Will-Direct-Musical-Adaptation-of-CRAZY-RICH-ASIANS-20240417\" rel=\"noopener\">was previously announced<\/a> to be directing the musical, although it is unclear if he was involved in the New York City workshop.<\/p>\n<p>Broadway alum Jasmine\u00a0Forsberg <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/jasmine_forsberg\/3784780589299745381\/\" rel=\"noopener\">took to her Instagram Story<\/a> to share her involvement, giving her followers a look inside the room. Wicked alum <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Alyssa-Fox\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Alyssa Fox<\/a> <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/alyssajoyfox\/\" rel=\"noopener\">shared<\/a> that she plays the role of Astrid in the workshop.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Happy Ending breakout star <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Helen-J-Shen-1\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Helen J. Shen<\/a> revealed her involvement <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/helenjshen\/3784776445672244815\/\" rel=\"noopener\">on Instagram<\/a>.\u00a0She shared that she is involved in the role of Rachel, which was played by <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Constance-Wu\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Constance Wu<\/a> in the hit film.<\/p>\n<p>CRAZY RICH ASIANS takes a fun, engaging and hilarious look at what can happen when young love collides with old money.<\/p>\n<p>Based on Kevin Kwan\u2019s 2013 #1 New York Times\u00a0bestselling novel CRAZY RICH ASIANS, the 2018 Warner Bros. film of the same name was directed by\u00a0<a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Jon-M-Chu\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Jon M. Chu<\/a>, with a screenplay by Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim and starred\u00a0<a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Constance-Wu\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Constance Wu<\/a>, Henry Golding,\u00a0<a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Gemma-Chan\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Gemma Chan<\/a>, Lisa Lu, Awkwafina,\u00a0<a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Ken-Jeong\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Ken Jeong<\/a>, and\u00a0<a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Michelle-Yeoh\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Michelle Yeoh<\/a>.\u00a0 The highly acclaimed multi-award-winning film, CRAZY RICH ASIANS was #1 at the box-office for three weeks in a row.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: Bruce Glikas<\/p>\n<p>]]><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/for-you\/recommended\/\" style=\"color:black;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Browse More <\/p>\n<p>BWW FOR YOU <\/a><\/p>\n<p>    ]]><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t ]]><\/p>\n<p>    \t\t\t  <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A workshop for the musical adaptation of Crazy Rich Asians is being held in New York City this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":440997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-440996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115703159698818730","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}