{"id":59695,"date":"2025-12-13T01:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/59695\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T01:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:31:11","slug":"crazy-rich-asians-musical-reading-held-in-new-york-city-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/59695\/","title":{"rendered":"CRAZY RICH ASIANS Musical Reading Held in New York City This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reading 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=\"nofollow 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=\"nofollow noopener\">Leah Nanako Winkler<\/a>, music by <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Helen-Park\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Helen Park<\/a>, and lyrics by <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Amanda-Green\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Amanda Green<\/a> and Tat Tong.\u00a0<a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Jon-M-Chu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jon M. Chu<\/a>\u00a0will be directing the musical, which is being developed by Warner Bros. Theater Ventures (under the direction of Mark Kaufman)<\/p>\n<p>Broadway alum Jasmine\u00a0Forsberg <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/jasmine_forsberg\/3784780589299745381\/\" rel=\"nofollow 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=\"nofollow noopener\">Alyssa Fox<\/a> <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/alyssajoyfox\/\" rel=\"nofollow 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=\"nofollow noopener\">Helen J. Shen<\/a> revealed her involvement <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/helenjshen\/3784776445672244815\/\" rel=\"nofollow 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=\"nofollow 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=\"nofollow 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=\"nofollow noopener\">Constance Wu<\/a>, Henry Golding,\u00a0<a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Gemma-Chan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gemma Chan<\/a>, Lisa Lu, Awkwafina,\u00a0<a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Ken-Jeong\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ken Jeong<\/a>, and\u00a0<a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Michelle-Yeoh\/\" rel=\"nofollow 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;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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 reading for the musical adaptation of Crazy Rich Asians is being held in New York City this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-59695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-reading-city","9":"tag-reading-city-headlines","10":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}