Tan, a graduate of the renowned Berklee College of Music, has more than a decade’s worth of experience as a multi-faceted music producer. I was a bit wary, but excited for the challenge.” “This is my first stage production,” he says. Humility aside, it is the passion for music that fulfills Tan’s ambitions, blending east-meets-west sensibilities and helping to bring the production together with an approach to music-based storytelling that proved to be much more complicated, and also rewarding, than he ever could have been expected. “I would place the director, the actors, the musicians, even the language coach as more important than me.” Working behind the scenes to put it all together is Music Director Mandric Tan. For a show like Theater Mu’s latest Cambodian Rock Band – the story of a Khmer Rouge survivor who returns to Cambodia for the first time in 30 years for the trial of a Cambodian war criminal, led by the music of Dengue Fever and classic Cambodian “oldies” – music is quite literally at the forefront. Music is an important piece of theater – it sets the tone, adds emotional cues and impact to create a marriage of image and sound that sticks in the mind of the viewer long after the curtain has closed.
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