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News Hip-Hop Themed King Kong Begins Performances July 30 A hip-hop musical adaptation of King Kong, written by Randy Weiner, Alfred Preisser and DJ Cold Cut, begins performances July 30.

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Alfred Preisser

Directed by Preisser, King Kong is part of the 2013 SummerStage festival. Performances continue in various New York City parks through Aug. 22.

Set in the late 1970s, SummerStage's King Kong celebrates the developing forms of hip-hop music and graffiti art that began in the South Bronx, in keeping with the festival's focus on the evolution of hip-hop over the last 40 years. 

Described in press notes as a "music/dance/comedy spectacle that radically subverts everything you thought you knew about one of the most famous love stories of all time," King Kong follows two brothers who embark on a journey in search of a new sound and its greatest performer, who they were told resides in the far-away land of the South Bronx. There they meet a rapper named King Kong.

Weiner and Preisser are no strangers to innovative theatre; Weiner launched the late-night venue the Box, the "theatre of varieties" on Chrystie Street, and is a producer of the immersive theatre project Sleep No More. Preisser is the founding artistic director of the Classical Theatre of Harlem, as well as a director, writer and producer.

For more information about SummerStage, visit cityparksfoundation.org/summerstage/.

 
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