NEW YORK, July 22, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Comfort
Women: A New Musical, directed by Dimo Hyun Jun
Kim opens July 31st at Theatre
at St. Clements.
Set in 1941, Comfort Women: A New Musical takes us
to Seoul, Korea where we meet Goeun, a young woman who
accepts a dream job offer to work overseas. Unfortunately, Goeun soon realizes that this is not the
dream opportunity that she has been promised. She is held
hostage, transported to Indonesia,
and is forced to become a Japanese Imperial Army sexual slave. We
follow Goeun through this life-altering experience as she befriends
fellow slaves (Comfort Women) and they plan their impossible
escape.
Comfort Women: A New Musical is based on the
real-life accounts of a few of the approximately 200,000 women who
were trafficked into sexual slavery by the Japanese Army from 1930-
1945. Women and girls as young as 14 were coerced or
kidnapped from their homes and forced to service 50 to 100 soldiers
a day. As a result of this treatment, combined with unsafe
practices, only 25- 30% of these women survived the war and those
who did survive were forever changed. Comfort
Women gives voice to a story that has been silenced far too
long.
Comfort Women: A New Musical by Dimo Hyun Jun Kim, Osker
David, Aguirre, and Joann Malory
Mieses with music by Bryan
Michaels and TaeHo
Park. Directed by Dimo Hyun
Jun Kim with musical direction by TekGoo Kang.
Featuring Sandra W. Lee and Megan Lee
Hodson
For more info: www.comfortwomenmusical.com
Comfort Women: A New Musical will perform
July 31 at 8pm, Aug. 1 at
2pm and 8pm, Aug. 2 at
3pm and 7pm, Aug. 4 at
2pm and 7pm, Aug. 5 at 2pm and 7pm,
Aug.
6 at 2pm and
7pm, Aug. 7 at
2pm and 8pm, Aug. 8 at 2pm and 8pm, and
Aug.
9 at 3pm and
7pm at Theatre at St. Clement's 423
W. 46th St., New York, NY 10036. Tickets:
$39- $69 web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/34622
866-811-4111 www.comfortwomenmusical.com
Donations from the production will be sent to The House of
Sharing http://www.nanum.org/eng/
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