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Stuck elevator

October 18, 2024 • 7:30PM
October 20, 2024 • 4PM

Based on a true story
Performed in English, Chinese, and Spanish, with English supertitles.
BLAISDELL ARENA
 
Stuck Elevator tells the story of a Chinese food deliveryman struggling for freedom from debt, human smugglers, loud-mouth coworkers, and the temptations of General Tso. Based on the true story of an undocumented immigrant who survived 81 hours (about 3 and a half days) in a Bronx elevator, this comic-rap-scrap-metal-opera shows increasingly fantastical attempts to escape being trapped in America. Stuck Elevator provides a personal entry point to thinking about and discussing topics that include immigration, labor, China, family obligation, and fortune cookies for an undocumented immigrant and indentured slave in 21st century America.

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CARMEN

April 11, 2025 • 7:30PM
April 13, 2025 • 4PM

A STAGED CONCERT

Performed in French with English supertitles
NEAL S. BLAISDELL CONCERT HALL

The season concludes with Bizet’s smoldering tale of seduction and addiction, Carmen, filled with some of opera’s most beloved melodies. Not a soul can resist Carmen’s seductive charm, not even the naïve Don José, who abandons his childhood sweetheart and his military career to follow her. But Carmen is a fiery gypsy with an appetite for smuggling and for powerful men. When she abandons him for a charismatic bullfighter, Don José’s infatuation turns to murderous obsession. What fate, or choice, waits for the woman no man can tame?

A dramatic staged concert phenomenon, featuring an on-stage orchestra, gripping character portrayals, and elaborate costumes revived from HOT’s 2017 production.
Don’t miss Carmen at the newly renovated Blaisdell Concert Hall!

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